Hackers With Wall Street Savvy Stealing M&A Data
December 2nd, 2014
Hackers with Wall Street expertise have stolen merger-and-acquisition information from more than 80 companies for more than a year, according to security consultants who shared their findings with law enforcement. A group dubbed FIN4 by researchers at FireEye Inc. ...
Report on role of Bank of England officials in relation to conduct issues in the foreign exchange market
November 12th, 2014
The Oversight Committee has today published an independent report by Lord Grabiner QC. This follows his investigation into whether, between 2005 and 2013, any Bank of England official was involved in, or aware of, conduct issues in the foreign ...
Regulators fine global banks $3.4 billion in forex probe
November 12th, 2014
Global regulators imposed penalties totaling $3.4 billion on five major banks, including UBS (UBSN.VX), HSBC (HSBA.L) and Citigroup (C.N) on Wednesday for failing to stop their traders from trying to manipulate foreign exchange markets. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) and JP ...
Contributing Authors
October 2nd, 2014
Dr Alan Waring Dr Alan Waring has 35 years’ experience in risk management. His several books include Managing Risk (1998), co-authored with Prof Ian Glendon, Practical Systems Thinking (1996) and Corporate Risk and Governance published in May 2013. He has presented numerous conference and ...
Accounts reporting abolition ruled
September 18th, 2014
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has backed down over plans to remove the requirement for firms to submit accountants’ reports every year. Instead, the regulator has decided to require reports only if they have been qualified by the accountant for ...
SRA hints at rethink on compliance roles
September 4th, 2014
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has hinted that it will reform its compliance officer scheme – just 20 months after the roles were introduced. In a speech this morning, the regulator’s chief executive Paul Philip said the review of the ...
SRA scam warnings
August 29th, 2014
Birketts has been exposed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as the subject of a scam after members of the public received emails purportedly from the UK Border Agency advising them to send money to the firm as well ...
Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords
August 6th, 2014
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say. The records, discovered by Hold Security, a ...
Argentina to investigate holdouts’ investments
August 5th, 2014
Argentina’s markets watchdog on Monday launched an investigation into what it believes may have been unlawful speculation by holdout creditors whose litigation against the country for repayment of their defaulted bonds pushed it into a new default last week. ...
PayPal co-founder Levchin, Affirm want to disrupt credit biz
August 5th, 2014
If you’ve got your eye on a purchase that your credit score says you can’t quite afford, Max Levchin may be able to help. After a brief stint as a Google executive, the PayPal co-founder is back in the ...
