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 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 26, 2013 - The UK government is preparing to bring in a utility-style regulator for retail payment systems, putting an end to the current practice of industry self-policing.
March 26, 2013 - Banks' ability to exploit a regulatory loophole in the Basel III capital adequacy regime by purchasing credits default swaps (CDS) and other instruments to lower the amount of risk on their books, and thereby reduce their capital requirements, will be curbed under new proposals released by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
March 20, 2013 - Major banks are taking strides towards meeting the requirements of the incoming Basel III regulations, it has emerged.
March 19, 2013 - The US government has moved to clarify its regulatory stance on virtual currencies such as bitcoin, confirming that while users are not classified as money services businesses (MSBs) subject to its rules, exchanges and administrators are.
March 18, 2013 - In research published today entitled, "Smart Beta 2.0," EDHEC-Risk Institute is seeking to draw the attention of investors to the risks of traditional smart beta equity indices and propose a new approach to smart beta investing to take account of these risks.
March 18, 2013 - CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, has been selected by ZLM Verzekeringen (ZLM Insurances), a multi award-winning Dutch insurance company, to support the firm's Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) compliance programme.
