4364 Results from /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
No more jimmying doors with a Slim Jim, bricks through windows, extracting lock cylinders with a dent puller, or hot-wiring ignitions. Automobiles today are being built to include wireless capabilities that allow for remote unlock, remote start, and of course, there’s global positioning systems (GPS) and services like OnStar and ATX, which offer “...
31 January 2012 /security /regulation
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
Much to my surprise I found out recently that a large number of UK Banks have already been working on their plans for the eventual breakup of the Euro. As I understand it the banks are basing their plans around first one Euro State going, quickly followed by others, with various scenarios being played out. For example, a split, with the northern E...
25 January 2012 /payments /regulation Post-Trade Forum
Retired Member
The world bank has recently published their six monthly GEP report showing interesting contradictions in growth across various regions. In the Eurozone of course we are looking at a recession of 0.3%, although given the strength of France and particularly Germany, one wonders what this means for Greece, Spain and Portugal. US growth will accelerat...
24 January 2012 /regulation /wholesale
New York Fed contractor charged with stealing Treasury code – this story is yet another example of how organisations are failing to address the risk that ‘trusted insiders’ – in this case a contractor – can pose. In an age of terrorist hactivists, many organisations are rightly focusing their data security efforts on securing their systems from ‘e...
23 January 2012 /security /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
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
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