October 22, 2013 - In the wake of a cyber-attack simulation, US financial services industry trade body Sifma has called on politicians to bring in legislation designed to improve communication between the government and private firms.
October 16, 2013 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Knight Capital Americas LLC has agreed to pay $12 million to settle charges that it violated the agency's market access rule in connection with the firm's Aug. 1, 2012 trading incident that disrupted the markets.
October 15, 2013 - The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have today published for public comment a consultative document on the Public quantitative disclosure standards for central counterparties.
October 14, 2013 - Telco giant EE is setting its sights on the City of London with the UK's first network-integrated mobile voice recording service for firms that need to comply with FCA mobile trading rules.
October 14, 2013 - East (the European ATM Security Team) has reported a 32% increase in ATM related fraud attacks, despite a 9% fall in card skimming incidents.
October 11, 2013 - Many of today's most destructive advanced persistent threats (APTs) were conceived a decade ago, so enterprises that rely on most traditional approaches to cybersecurity are unlikely to succeed against the next generation of attacks. This is one of the cautions in a new book published by global IT association ISACA in Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
October 10, 2013 - The UK government is setting up a utilities-style payments regulator in a bid to make it easier and cheaper for new entrants to take on the high street banks.
October 9, 2013 - The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has warned that plans by Microsoft to discontinue support for the XP operating system pose operational risks for banks that still use it.
