September 19, 2012 - Financial Tracking Technologies LLC released the results of its annual Costs of Compliance and Risk Benchmarking Study 2012. Key facts of the study showed that, even though highly affordable automated solutions exist, over 80% of risk and compliance tasks are still being performed manually and costs of risk and compliance are going up at 40% of participants.

July 18, 2012 - HSBC's head of compliance fell on his sword in front of a US Senate subcommittee Tuesday after the banking giant was excoriated for lax money laundering controls.

July 13, 2010 - B.I.S.S. Research and Globe Tax Services have formed a joint venture to launch Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) accreditation, which aims to assist financial companies and their treasury departments in achieving FATCA compliance across an enterprise by identifying strengths and weaknesses in their systems and procedures and establishing a corporate standard.

July 11, 2012 - Internal audit practitioners globally report that more visible and vocal support for the internal audit function is needed from senior management within their organizations as the changing demands of today's regulatory and risk environment are putting them under increasing pressure to do more with less, according to a new survey by Thomson Reuters.

June 29, 2012 - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) today voted to propose a phased compliance program regarding certain swaps to non-U.S. swap dealers, non-U.S. major swap participants, U.S. swap dealers, U.S. major swap participants, and foreign branches of U.S. swap dealers and U.S. major swap participants.

June 19, 2012 - The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has launched a public online database of complaints against credit card companies.

May 24, 2012 - With at least 10 major pieces of regulation approaching, containing tens of thousands of pages of rules, international investment firms are facing a deluge of expensive and repetitive regulatory activity.