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News The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned the banking industry to shape up their attitudes to securing sensitive data and customer information. One of the recommendations the FSA made as a result of the audit was that finance firms should... [25 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment The Nationwide's £980,000 fine by the FSA in February last year following the theft of a laptop with unencrypted data highlights that. Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive. [08 Apr 2008]
HSBC loses 370,000 customers' details
News The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been informed about the loss and the bank faces a possible investigation, with the risk of a fine if a lapse in security is found. A spokesman for the FSA said: "We look to firms to put controls in place... [07 Apr 2008]
MiFID compliance warning
News FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring ¦ The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is now looking into how well firms are complying with MiFID, looking at issues such as disclosure of information and best execution, but when asked how MiFID... [13 Mar 2008]
Insurance Broker Achieves FSA Compliance and Enhances Competitive Advantage in Six Weeks
White Paper Formed in 2004, Oxygen wanted to deploy a new solution to help financial organisations adapt to new business dynamics and sweeping regulatory changes imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). [04 Mar 2008]
Finance giant breathes new life into outsourcing contract
News Diligenta is a UK-based, FSA regulated subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services. Sun Life Financial of Canada (SLF) has signed a £100m contract for Diligenta to provide it with business process outsourcing (BPO) services. [31 Jan 2008]
Shortening Processing Time From Days to Seconds and Speeding Application Performance With Symantec Indepth for Sybase
White Paper FSA had performance problems with applications running on Sybase, so it turned to Symantec Indepth for Sybase. Now those problems are in the past, since the company's DBAs (DataBase Administrators) have deep visibility into the SQL code. [17 Jan 2008]
Denplan bites hard on document automation
Case Study This is especially important in making sure FSA (Financial Services Authority) regulations on keeping customers informed of ongoing developments are complied with. Dental payment plan provider Denplan has implemented a document automation system to... [17 Jan 2008]
Norwich Union Life fined for data control 'weaknesses'
News The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Norwich Union Life £1.26m for failing to manage customer data adequately, resulting in financial crimes such as identity theft being committed against its customers. [17 Dec 2007]
Building society installs anti-money laundering tech
News Newcastle Building Society is about to implement an anti-money-laundering (AML) system to comply with FSA regulations and ensure quality of service to third parties. The building society currently carries out transaction monitoring and exception... [11 Dec 2007]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment What is the justification for this given that the FSA was able to fine Nationwide £1m for a security breach in February this year? But the HMRC's wayward discs were a mere dry run, argues Stewart Room. [27 Nov 2007]
MiFID: No big bang - but it's not over yet
News FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring ¦ Speaking to silicon.com a Financial Services Authority (FSA) spokesman suggested the FSA is happy with the way things have gone so far. The deadline for MiFID compliance passed without a major... [26 Nov 2007]
Disaster Recovery Is Expensive
White Paper A commercial bank was required to implement offsite replication of its data in order to comply with FSA and SEC regulations. The volumes of data that the bank is processing are growing exponentially, and the number of servers to manage and store... [25 Nov 2007]
LSE back on track after outage
News FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is operating as normal after a technical issue yesterday. An LSE spokeswoman said, towards the close of business yesterday there was a technical issue within... [08 Nov 2007]
Leader: UK should make hay while MiFID sun shines
Leader UK banks ready for MiFID, says FSA ¦ FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring ¦ The Financial Services Authority (FSA) transposed MiFID into UK law at the end of January - much earlier than many other countries - and so firms have had... [01 Nov 2007]
