4163 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Very disappointing, as I am sure we all agree. Doubly so knowing Lord Erroll's dedication and enthusiasm for the work of the Committee (having heard his impassioned views on the issues at our recent Information Security dinners). Perhaps the Government should be more aware of the content of the FSA's Market Watch newsletters...
31 October 2007 /security /regulation Information Security
The most significant private equity investment in the financial technology sector these past few months was definitely Advent International's (a TA Associates competitor and spin-off) acquisition of a majority stake in Paris-based portfolio and risk management software provider Sophis last July. Sophis provides two main solutions: RISQUE (for sell...
22 October 2007 /regulation Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
Interestingly, this was exactly the topic of conversation at a couple of CIO / CTO level Information Security dinners that we have hosted in the city recently, and follows hot (OK, warm) on the heels of the FSA's Market Watch newsletter on Market Conduct and Transaction Reporting Issues, with accidental leaks of sensitive information being a key i...
24 September 2007 /security /regulation Information Security
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
"The big lesson of the subprime crisis: that it's a mistake to lend money to poor people." "Rich people know how to invest extra money. Poor people just squander it on necessities. That's why capitalism works so well: it keeps money out of the hands of people who don't know how to use it and directs it to people who know how to make ...
12 September 2007 /regulation /wholesale Whatever...
Hedge funds and Wall Street firms are increasingly turning to meterologists to predict the impact that weather conditions willl have on stocks. But rather than using public meteorologists offices banks are employing their own weather specialists in house. Investment banks and hedge funds have traditionally employed mathematicians, physicists, comp...
08 August 2007 /regulation
Rich Marin, the embattled head of Bear Stearns asset management arm, was forced to step aside Friday in the wake of the near-collapse of two hedge funds associated with his division. He remains with the firm in an advisory capacity. Marin’s fate was finally sealed after the New York Times took pot shots at him for taking time off to go to the movie...
02 July 2007 /regulation /wholesale
See also - Blogging can hurt your employability 1 I was sitting in the waiting room at the Doctors this morning reading an old copy of Cosmopolitan; well I'd never buy a copy - far too raunchy for me! I noticed they now run a section on careers and Corrine Dauncey a careers expert with www.tiptopjob.com gave some good advice on answering the quest...
07 June 2007 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
On the BBC World Service yesterday, and today on Silicon.com there comes a new threat to our employment chances - the Blog and other social sites. Apparently HR teams are being encouraged to use the Internet to research applicants for jobs and apparently some of the results are quite interesting as more and more companies use the web to store data....
29 March 2007 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Finextra received some interesting feedback from a reader today about this story, which covered NAB considering further Indian outsourcing. Our reader pointed out that with Maoist insurgents having slaughtered 40 Indian policemen this week, moving operations there now requires a hard second look. “Forget the weather issues, training, infrastruct...
16 March 2007 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
As you probably know, in a departure from previous years, Daylight Saving Time kicks in this weekend in the States following the Energy Policy Act of 2005. While this change isn't quite on the scale of the millenium bug, it does pose problems for IT folk. Fortunately the Windows sysadmins have been spared the monthly Microsoft patch cycle so that'...
09 March 2007 /security /regulation
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