4488 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Hope US authorities have written the script before the play. Skilled but not wise traders made record profits at the cost of others. It was a moral meltdown, all the way. Another Enron, but larger, one could say. Now these traders turn into huge weapons of mass destruction themselves. Middlemen at the heart of global financial flows turned out to ...
25 April 2010 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
AP reports using false caller ID with the intent of tricking people into revealing personal information or otherwise causing harm would become illegal under legislation that passed the House Wednesday. The legislation would only outlaw the use of spoofing technology when the intent is to deceive and harm the recipient of the call. Legitimate uses...
23 April 2010 /security /regulation
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
The Asian Banker Summit for 2010 was held over the 19-20th of April in Singapore with record attendance, in what was the 11th annual occurance of the event. With more than 600 bankers in attendance, the conference was not only the largest Summit on record, but ranks as one of the largest banking events in the world now. The summit had the support ...
22 April 2010 /regulation /retail
As the SEC proposes a new trading system that requires individuals or firms to register and receive a trader identification number if they plan to trade more than $20 million or 2 million shares per day. The aim is to allow better tracking of the activities of individuals and firms. In doing so, the SEC is reinforcing the concept that an client's ...
16 April 2010 /regulation
My excuse for my recent blogging hiatus is that I was kicking off a project (or three) with a new client - a securities firm in Vancouver. Rather than spend time expelling ideas, it was time for me to sit, listen and learn. It seems that deluge of incoming information in one direction stopped too much coming back out in the form of this blog. So n...
15 April 2010 /regulation
Generally in a trusting relationship spying isn’t necessary. I’m sure Sandra Bullock, Kate Gosselin or Tiger Wood’s wife didn’t think they needed to spy on their husbands, until they did. Reckless behavior like that can bring home a very itchy or very deadly disease. One that victimizes the innocent. The fact is humans have a tendency to lie.
15 April 2010 /security /regulation
Xavier Bellouard Co-founder at Quartet FS
VaR – a fantastically complex mathematical model for measuring the risk in various portfolios - has received some bad press of late. Many have argued that the recent financial crisis was ultimately a crisis of modern metrics-based risk management, and VaR is a major culprit. While undoubtedly risk modelling, as we know it, needs to evolve to bett...
I know this is an unorthodox request but I envision it can turn into a cool post in the comments, then a great article. I'm doing a report on international issues of "new account fraud" as it pertains to identity theft. In the US we use a Social Security number as the primary identifier that is used on all applications to obtain new cre
09 April 2010 /security /regulation
Naiveté: A lack of sophistication or worldliness. That sums up a lot of people I know. “There’s a sucker born every minute” is a phrase often credited to P.T. Barnum (1810 – 1891), an American showman. It is generally taken to mean that there are (and always will be) a lot of gullible people in the world. Predator: A predator is an organism that fe...
There is a reason why computer users are called “users.” Like crack addicts who are drug users, more is never enough. And when under the influence, people do stupid things. I find myself scanning the Dell catalog like it’s the latest (or any) Victoria Secrets catalog. I’m amazed at how many people I know are online all day long and digitally stone...
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