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FSA warns banks to wise up on security

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...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[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.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, data protection, compliance

[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...

Tags: hsbc, fsa, data loss

[07 Apr 2008]

MiFID compliance warning

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...

Tags: mifid, banks, compliance, europe

[13 Mar 2008]

Insurance Broker Achieves FSA Compliance and Enhances Competitive Advantage in Six Weeks

whitepaper 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).

Tags: application servers

[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.

Tags: bpo, finance, diligenta, life

[31 Jan 2008]

Shortening Processing Time From Days to Seconds and Speeding Application Performance With Symantec Indepth for Sybase

whitepaper 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.

Tags: programming languages

[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...

Tags: crm, compliance, document management

[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.

Tags: norwich union life, fine, data loss, fsa

[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...

Tags: money laundering, systems, tech, regulations

[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.

Tags: data protection, security breach, hmrc, legislation

[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...

Tags: banks, regulation, deadline, compliance

[26 Nov 2007]

Disaster Recovery Is Expensive

whitepaper 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...

Tags: disaster recovery, disaster recovery, array, bank

[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...

Tags: lse, trading, brokers, outage

[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...

Tags: uk, mifid, trading, london

[01 Nov 2007]

MiFID: It's finally right here, right now

News UK banks ready for MiFID, says FSA ¦ FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring ¦ The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said the The FSA estimates that around 12,000 firms in the UK will be affected by MiFID.

Tags: mifid, trading, regulation, banks

[01 Nov 2007]

Credit crunch hits tech contractors

News FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring The proportion of tech contract workers in the financial services sector is at its lowest level for more than three years. Just 22 per cent of IT contractors are working in the sector...

Tags: contractor, london, engineering, olympics

[31 Oct 2007]

MiFID: No boon for small and private banks?

News FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring ¦ While large banks and exchanges are set to grow as a result of adopting MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive), small domestic players and private banks will get little from their...

Tags: mifid, bba, bank, banking

[30 Oct 2007]

UK banks ready for MiFID, says FSA

News The UK banking industry is in good shape for the European MiFID regulations which come into force on 1 November, according to the Financial Services Authority (FSA). An FSA spokesman told silicon.com that according to its MiFID monitoring programme...

Tags: mifid, regulation, investment, fsa

[30 Oct 2007]

MiFID: Banks not ready as deadline looms

News FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring ¦ A significant proportion of financial organisations are unprepared for the record keeping requirements of MiFID, just weeks before the European investment banking regulations come into force on 1...

Tags: deadline, europe, compliance, storage

[17 Oct 2007]

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