4296 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
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
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
At MPIE we recently provided input to a whitepaper from NetApp - a leading unified storage solutions supplier - on compliance trends and how to reduce the risk and costs of their impact. I will leave you to judge the specific merits of the NetApp solution, but the general principles are clear. By understanding and designing for the wider complianc...
27 February 2007 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
It’s been a long time coming, but Joe Public, and the companies that serve him, are finally wising up to the risks and challenges posed by global warming. This week saw the publication of no less than three separate reports - by Lehman Brothers, UBS and the Financial Services Authority - highlighting the perils posed by human-induced climate chang...
02 February 2007 /regulation /wholesale
Nick Hastings
I ‘ve been to Le Pont de la Tour on a number of occasions and it gets better every time. It’s well worth popping over Tower Bridge and enjoying the views of the City from the restaurant and in summer it offers delightful alfresco dining. The wine list is superb especially if you are a fan of French wines and the French cuisine is well worthy of it...
26 January 2007 /regulation After hours
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