4169 Results from /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Most of us would have no idea Egypt had pulled the plug on the Internet unless it was splashed all over the news. However one company called iovation knew right away. Basically “just like that” the up to 1000 fraud checks they receive every hour out of Egypt dropped to zero. At first glance one would think there was some type of meltdown or maybe E...
02 February 2011 /security /regulation
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision may create for a 2020s decade the next generation of ANTI-DEFLATION global banking rules based on negative interest rates, simply "Basel IV Accords".... cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com
02 February 2011 /regulation Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Retired Member
My another passion is to understand how to identify and sign documents/ agreements online. To understand the complexity of this issue, I would like you to describe your local law and methods how you are identified when logging in to third party solutions? Second thing, what your local law says about methods which are valid to identify. So far I kn...
While speaking at the OTC Derivatives and Counterparty Risk conference in London last week, I noticed a number of recurring themes which continued to pop up throughout the day. Most of the conference presentations touched upon the topics of margin and collateral management, netting sets and wrong-way risk. As mentioned in my previous blog (Adding...
31 January 2011 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
The Telegraph reports that UK National Identity Cards containing biometric details, including fingerprints, “were championed by the previous Labour government as a way of preventing terrorism and identity theft.” But the new administration immediately scrapped the initiative, introducing the Identity Documents Bill to Parliament in May, which pr...
29 January 2011 /security /regulation
Teachers in numerous Massachusetts cities and towns are not allowed to “friend’’ students on Facebook or other social networking sites, and a number of other school districts south of Boston are considering a similar ban. The Boston Globe reports that many communities are working on policies governing school staff’s use of Facebook, “inspired in p...
27 January 2011 /security /regulation
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
I have had a number of interesting chats with IT, information security and risk people about BYO (bring your own) technology and devices, and collaborative social sharing software, lately. (they were part of the non-editorial part of my job, so I can't spill the identity beans-yes, I know, it pisses me off too) Anyway, we all know the considered a...
26 January 2011 /regulation /wholesale Finance 2.0
Steve Dance Managing Partner at RiskCentric
A short trip around the Finextra website can clearly demonstrate that there's no shortage of potential solutions to support the risk identification and management process. There's systems, tools and advice available in spades. So why, with all of this help available, do crises occur? I'm convinced that it's attitude, not the lack of systems, tha...
25 January 2011 /security /regulation
The AP reports “WikiLeaks’ release of secret government communications should serve as a warning to the nation’s biggest companies: You’re next.” According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse’s Chronology of Data Breaches, more than 500 million sensitive records have been breached in the past five years. The Chronology of Data breaches lists spec...
22 January 2011 /security /regulation
“You could be a meteorologist all your life and never see something like this. It would be... the perfect storm.” So goes a classic line in one of the few great Hollywood fishing epics. The Perfect Storm finds fisherman George Clooney and his shipmates venturing out into dangerous waters and being trapped between two momentous and powerful storm fr...
20 January 2011 /regulation
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