October 2, 2015 - In the latest in a series of high profile data breaches, credit referencing agency Experian says hackers accessed its servers and stole the personal details of 15 million prospective T-Mobile customers.
October 2, 2015 - Donald Trump's luxury hotel chain has confirmed that malware may have compromised customer credit and debit card data.
October 1, 2015 - Datactics Ltd, a market leader in data quality and matching software, today announces the launch of DQ Metrics, a powerful data monitoring and measurement application that offers financial institutions the ability to measure their data compliance against evolving regulations and industry standards.
October 1, 2015 - Despite the fact that the majority of Americans still do not have EMV payment cards ahead of today's deadline for a switch from magstripe, an industry taskforce insists that the migration is "on track".
September 30, 2015 - Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, announces today a new quantitative approach for calculating real world algorithmic exposures for advanced risk measures – a powerful and effective approach for portfolios of exotic derivatives.
September 29, 2015 - According to a global survey of privacy and risk professionals released today, more than half of the 780 respondents say consumers should not feel confident that companies are adequately protecting their information. The study, conducted by global IT association ISACA, also found that only 29 percent of the respondents are very confident in their enterprise’s ability to ensure the privacy of its sensitive data. In fact, nearly one in five said they have experienced a material privacy breach.
September 29, 2015 - The opportunity to embrace stress testing as a discipline that is good for business, not just compliance.
September 28, 2015 - The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published its final technical standards (TS) on some of the most important pieces of post-crisis financial regulation: the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and the Central Securities Depositaries Regulation (CSDR).ESMA’s TS translate how the legislation will apply in practice to market participants, market infrastructures and national supervisors. The new technical standards will alter the functioning of European financial markets by increasing their transparency, safety and resilience as well as investor protection.