September 5, 2013 - Nasdaq has outlined a series of steps to improve the resilience of the Securities Information Processor following a second brief outage just weeks after a malfunction in the market data feed forced the exchange to shut down for three hours.
September 3, 2013 - ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that its subsidiary ICAP SEF (US) LLC has filed its application to be a Swap Execution Facility (SEF) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act.
August 30, 2013 - Bitcoin exchange Tradehill has temporarily shut down trading, citing "banking and regulatory" issues related to its credit union partner. In a statement on its Web site, the firm says the "decision has not been made lightly and we regret having to take such action".
August 27, 2013 - The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an interim report exploring some early findings of a review into mobile banking services, setting out the possible risks to consumers and areas that firms should consider when developing their services.
August 27, 2013 - The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) today issued a Risk Alert on business continuity and disaster recovery planning for investment advisers.
August 23, 2013 - Bloomberg has said it will create and enforce stronger barriers between its news services and financial data units to stop reporters accessing client information.
August 23, 2013 - A spate of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been providing cover for the theft of millions of dollars at three US banks, according to Gartner.
August 21, 2013 - The 2013 European Computer Audit, Control and Security (EuroCACS) / Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) conference will take place at Hilton London Metropole in September 2013.
