4461 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
An educational posting from me today on one of the most understated weapons ever unleashed in the counter-fraud world – Big Data Analytics. People often don’t realise that analysing vast chunks of data (commonly in the region of terabytes) can be done these days in real-time, or at the very least near real-time. It’s understandable that this is th...
31 October 2012 /security /regulation
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
With settlement cycles shortening in Europe and in the USA, there is quite a debate going on in the market as to the best form of post-trade matching. Financial Services firms on both buy and sell-side have a decision to make about what suits their business best. Central matching or local matching? Certainly central matching has plenty of attracti...
30 October 2012 /regulation EBAday
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The term “cyberattack” or cyberwarfare is defined as “politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare although this analogy is controversial for both its accuracy and its political motivation.” “Weapons of Mass Disruption” are a growing concern...
30 October 2012 /security /regulation
“Americans have always cherished our privacy. From the birth of our republic, we assured ourselves protection against unlawful intrusion into our homes and our personal papers. At the same time, we set up a postal system to enable citizens all over the new nation to engage in commerce and political discourse. Soon after, Congress made it a crime t...
It seems to me that the Industry is split between the benefits or not, of high frequency trading (HFT) and it’s a polarisation which is so concerning that Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, has launched his report on the Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets. Everyone appears to have an opinion, but very few of ...
29 October 2012 /regulation EBAday
Children engage in online shopping, social media, mobile web, and computers just like adults do. Many parents feel a bit overwhelmed by technology and often throw their hands in the air and give up. Unfortunately, that’s not an option. It is essential that parents educate themselves on safe, secure online practices in order to set a positive examp...
28 October 2012 /security /regulation
I have never known ethics to be talked about so much as in the last year or two and we all know why. However, I was intrigued the other day when the Chartered Institute of Investment Services (CISI) (of which I am a founder member having been grandfathered in through my Stock Exchange membership) sent me an email stating that from next year all me...
24 October 2012 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Last week another one of the high streets leading banks admitted to suffering from a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Whilst customer data was said to not be affected, it did cause a huge inconvenience for customers trying to access banking services online. Unfortunately this is not the first issue the banking sector has had this year. DoS attacks l...
24 October 2012 /regulation
We use the web to search, shop and to connect with friends and family. And in the process criminals are trying steal from us. It used to be that a person only had to know not to open a file in an attachment from someone they didn’t know. Today there are more ways than ever that your PC can be hijacked. Today you can simply visit a website thinking ...
24 October 2012 /security /regulation
$30,000,000,000,000 - This huge figure is the estimated additional liquidity financial institutions worldwide will need if the current proposal by the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on margin requirements for non-centrally-cleared derivatives were to be implemented....
23 October 2012 /regulation
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