December 18, 2014 - Banks and insurers are moving away from perceiving regulation as a cost centre and in 2015 will be using it as a way to shoehorn extra budget for technological innovation within their organisations, according to predictions from business technology change consultancy Certeco.
December 18, 2014 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has earned the No. 4 position in Chartis' RiskTech100® ranking two years in a row. The company was once again recognized as Category Leader in Regulatory Reporting for 2015, marking four years running that it has won that honor.
December 17, 2014 - In a joint survey released today from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services and Regulation Asia, banking executives indicated regulatory risk as the issue posing the greatest threat to their business. Reputational risk came in second, with credit risk and IT risk also named top threats. Seventy-three percent of those surveyed indicated they were "very concerned" about managing compliance in the face of ongoing regulatory change.
December 16, 2014 - Forget chip and PIN, Dutch researchers claim to have harnessed the power of quantum mechanics in a way that could be used to make card fraud a thing of the past.
December 15, 2014 - The Seventh Annual Billing Household Survey from Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, revealed that mobile bill payment use is growing rapidly among U.S. consumers, with 27 million U.S. online households now paying at least one bill from their phone, up nearly 70 percent over 2013.
December 15, 2014 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services announced today that its regulatory analysis team has been awarded "Best Editorial Team" at the 11th annual Compliance Register Platinum Awards. The awards program, hosted in London, recognizes individuals, teams and companies that demonstrate exemplary service to compliance and regulation.
December 15, 2014 - Chief information officers (CIOs) in banking have an unprecedented opportunity to take a leading role in their organisations, thanks in part to the rise of "shadow IT". That's one of the paradoxical findings of a new global study published today by BT, based on a survey of almost 1,000 senior IT decision makers in eight regions and six sectors worldwide.
December 15, 2014 - Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance management solutions, and Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced a technology partnership and integration. The collaboration is part of Tripwire's Technology Alliance Program (TAP), designed to allow a wide variety of vendors to team with Tripwire to deliver innovative security solutions.