March 7, 2012 - The European Commission is promising to shake up cross-border securities settlement in the EU by cutting settlement timeframes and establishing a common regulatory framework for the region's 30+ central securities depositories.
March 2, 2012 - National Australia Bank is formulating a set of standard service level agreements that may be used by companies worldwide for securing data in public and private cloud applications.
March 2, 2012 - "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" was the caption on a famous cartoon by Peter Steiner published in The New Yorker in 1993. It encapsulated a belief that persists to this day — that you can hide your true identity on the Internet. However, it is increasingly harder for anyone to hide their identity. We all give up data about ourselves of varying degrees of sensitivity in return for using "free" services.
March 2, 2012 - National Australia Bank is formulating a set of standard service level agreements that may be used by companies worldwide for securing data in public and private cloud applications.
March 1, 2012 - Google chairman Eirc Schmidt says the Internet search giant once considered creating its own peer-to-peer money system, dubbed Google Bucks, but binned the idea because of regulatory concerns.
February 29, 2012 - RiskAdvisory, a division of business analytics leader SAS, today announced it is strengthening its market-leading Dodd-Frank regulatory response with the addition of Patrick Woody as Senior Strategist for Regulatory Risk Compliance. Woody comes to commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions provider RiskAdvisory from parent company SAS, where he assisted energy and utilities companies with risk management and regulatory issues.
February 28, 2012 - FinArch, international market leader in integrated risk and finance solutions for the financial services industry, announced that Basel III has been added to its Finance, Risk and Performance Measurement Platform Financial Studio. Financial Studio Basel III is a unique, comprehensive and flexible end-to-end solution that meets all Basel III regulatory requirements, and, at the same time, banks’ strategic business needs.
February 28, 2012 - The threats to systems supporting critical infrastructures are evolving and growing. In a February 2011 testimony, the Director of National Intelligence noted that there had been a dramatic increase in cyber activity targeting U.S. computers and systems in the previous year, including a more than tripling of the volume of malicious software since 2009. Varying types of threats from numerous sources can adversely affect computers, software, networks, organizations, entire industries, and the Internet itself.
