4170 Results from /regulation
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered o...
18 January 2012 /regulation
Retired Member
Dear Bank IT Manager, I hope that you have had a good Christmas / New Year period: covered by a romantic snow if you are in the North or blessed by a brilliant sunlight if you are in the South. Personally I have to say that I am a little bored of fog, which is very common in my town. In any case my vegetables are growing through cold, ice and fog ...
16 January 2012 /regulation Banking Architecture
I am sure we were all delighted to see that the government has fully adopted the Vickers Report !! Much focus has been placed on the business impact of separation but what does it mean in practice. Page 54 tells us what is mandated and what is prohibited in a ring fenced bank. Deposits, payments, lending (of all types) and advising on non risky pr...
12 January 2012 /regulation /wholesale
There is a common misconception between Risk Management and Compliance Monitoring in the Capital Markets sector. In reality, the two differ significantly but almost always co-exist in every FSA regulated financial institution. Risk Management is the management of trading activity in real-time while Compliance Monitoring is the monitoring and analy...
11 January 2012 /regulation
Banks are starting to recognise the external forces that compel them to engage with their customers online. They are expressing the desire to embrace the opportunities that social media offers and many display an appreciation that they need to change their business structures to allow better collaboration, internally and externally. But many banks ...
11 January 2012 /regulation /retail Social Banks
It is almost impossible to have lived through 2011 and not get all caught up in the social media frenzy. The launch of Google+ was one of the most talked about events of the year among the technorati. Was this to be the end of Facebook? How would Twitter react? Even though Google+ amassed a user base of more than 10 million in three weeks...
10 January 2012 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Chalk up a victory for the financial services industry last weekend in its resistance to higher capital requirements under Basel III. Institutions would still have to maintain significant buffers to prevent another round of government bailouts, but they could dip into these high-quality assets when times get tough enough. “During a period of stres...
10 January 2012 /regulation
Dennis Baillon Regional Sales Executive, APAC at Charles River Development
Australia’s superannuation funds are amongst the fastest growing in the world following more than a decade of compulsory contributions and there are a number of trends and challenges that they face. ‘Super’ Trends A number of trends have affected the superannuation industry in Australia; there was the super system review of 2010 by Jeremy Cooper, f...
09 January 2012 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
It’s that time of year, for holiday cheer, to give of ourselves and ring in the New Year. But while you celebrate, please keep in mind, criminals and hackers are not far behind. Mobile malware is here; it’s increased since last year. Be sure to install mobile malware protection, so that you don’t receive an unwelcome infection. QR codes are bar...
08 January 2012 /security /regulation
What’s going to get us out of the doldrums? Growth of course! What’s going to drive growth? Increased business activity! While we are being told this, there are a whole range of factors that are going to put the squeeze on trade. The universal currency for international commodity trading is the dollar. The commodity trading organisations I work ...
05 January 2012 /regulation /wholesale
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