April 8, 2013 - Commenting on reports in the New York Times and Guardian newspapers on the leaking of wealth and tax arrangements data on 120,000 companies - plus 130,000 high net worth individuals and their financial agents – Varonis Systems says that this highlights the need for organisations to know who is accessing their data internally. And in particular, who has access to what data - and how it is being handled - especially unstructured data such as spreadsheets and documents in email, in order to protect the privacy of individuals.

April 5, 2013 - The majority of financiers involved in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) failed to meet the deadline of January to begin implementing new capital rules.

April 2, 2013 - The majority of corporate executives believe their company's banks are still taking too many risks in the aftermath of the global economic crisis, a new study has revealed.

April 2, 2013 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a report that makes clear that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD) so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate such information.

March 27, 2013 - Barclaycard US, the payments business of Barclays in the United States, has chosen MetricStream, Inc. to provide Governance, Risk, and Compliance software solutions.

March 27, 2013 - Wolters Kluwer Financial Services announced today that a subsidiary of one of the largest financial institutions in Japan, Mizuho International plc, has licensed the Common Reporting (COREP), Financial Reporting (FINREP) and Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) modules of its Basel III solution.

March 26, 2013 - A group of leading sell-side banks has set up a working group that will focus on the creation of an open industry standard protocol for client and trader enablement on electronic trading platforms.