compliance governance in news
Gartner: SOX is boosting IT spend
News Corporate governance and compliance laws are driving up information technology spending by businesses, Gartner reported in a study released on Thursday. French Caldwell, a research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement: "Projects that were... [16 Dec 2005]
Compliance: Two-thirds of firms claim they've nailed it
News Two-thirds of businesses claim they have the technology and processes in place to ensure compliance with corporate governance legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley (Sox) and Basel II. Despite the difficulties interpreting the technology needs for... [02 Jul 2004]
Financial services firms baffled by own infrastructure
News Billy Hamilton-Stent, a director at Loudhouse Research, which undertook the study on behalf of Hal Knowledge Solutions, said: "The more IT organisations are asked to do in compliance and IT governance terms, the more they need to know what is... [16 Jun 2005]
CIO Agenda: The 2007 tech shopping list
News Last year IT governance and compliance were the top CIO spending priorities and both are still of high importance with just over half (52 per cent) looking at governance and 42 per cent looking at compliance in 2007. [15 Jan 2007]
SOX compliance diverts funding from IT security
News This makes it important to integrate compliance into a wider IT security and corporate governance strategy, it said. ISF consultant Andy Jones said that although SOX was designed to improve corporate governance and accountability, it has proved... [11 Jul 2005]
UK compliance super-bill a step closer
News The minefield of legislation relating to corporate governance looks set for further complication with the second reading before the House of Commons of the UK Companies Bill. But while the bill may add to the headaches across boardrooms and for... [07 Sep 2004]
Compliance laws helping to combat software piracy
News Governance is changing the way companies think about software as an asset and how they account for it with auditors," he said. With enterprise and middle market customers governance requirements are now very tight," he said. [23 Sep 2004]
Compliance to cause pain for IT staff
News Good IT governance means you're always reprioritising and rebalancing schedules due to [the company's] changing priorities," he said. CEOs are primarily responsible for corporate compliance to the outside world, but Alan Whitfield, CTO at IT... [26 May 2004]
CIO Jury: Compliance no IT project Trojan horse
News Added DrKW's Rangaswami: "What happened to IT budgets and governance since 2001 is no blip. Compliance won't be a boon to the IT industry - on the vendor or user side.silicon.com's latest CIO Jury of 12 individuals has returned eight answers of 'No... [05 May 2004]
CIO Agenda, part 1: The 2006 IT shopping list
News IT governance and compliance have replaced security as the number one item on the technology shopping list for IT bosses in 2006, according to silicon.com's second annual CIO Agenda survey. More than 80 per cent of the CIO survey respondents said... [15 Dec 2005]
BOC faces £20m Sarbanes-Oxley compliance bill
News Industrial gases group BOC said it faces higher than expected costs, totalling around £20m, over the next two years in order to bring the company into full compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) corporate governance regulations. [03 Aug 2005]
Time running out for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
News Metzger said: "SAP grew the SOX 404 risk evaluation process over internal controls of financial reporting into a holistic Enterprise Risk Management function, and is currently developing a consolidated compliance and governance framework for the... [26 Jul 2006]
CIO Jury: Are high compliance costs worth it?
News Others expect to see benefits but only in the long term and John Odell, group IT director at the BBA Group, said cost reductions and improved products are likely to result from better IT governance on projects. [25 Aug 2005]
Banking industry on target to hit compliance deadlines
News We don't know the full scope of what's out there yet, so good governance is the key," he said. Almost two-thirds of respondents in a survey of risk and compliance managers said they are having to introduce new IT systems to become compliant. [15 Sep 2004]
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