245 Results from /regulation, 2007
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The FBI is investigating allegations that Unisys failed to detect hack attacks on computers at the US Department of Homeland Security and then tried to cover up the lax oversight, according to a report by The Washington Post.
24 September 2007
Confidential data belonging to thousands of customers of ABN Amro Mortgage in the US have been inadvertently leaked onto a person-to-person file sharing network by a former employee of the firm, according to press reports.
UK-based Thunderhead has signed a partnership agreement with financial industry network Swift aimed at simplifying OTC derivative post-trade processing across the SwiftNet platform via the use of industry standard FpML messaging.
21 September 2007
US fintech vendor CheckFree has added an over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives processing module to its post-trade securities processing system, TradeFlow.
18 September 2007
US-based Automatic Data Processing (ADP) says hackers have stolen data about its clients from a third-party database and have used the information to launch online phishing scams.
17 September 2007
Online broker TD Ameritrade says an internal investigation into stock-related spam uncovered 'unauthorised code' in its computer systems that allowed illegal access to an internal database.
14 September 2007
UK banking software vendor Misys says it has agreed to buy eLoancoordinator, an Internet-based book building platform for the primary loan market developed by Dresdner Kleinwort. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
13 September 2007
Spanish savings bank Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona (La Caixa) is installing Murex's integrated cross-asset trading and risk management platform MX.3 across its treasury division.
05 September 2007
UK fintech vendor Financial Objects is reporting a 46% rise in pre-tax profit for the first half of the year, despite revenue at the vendor's banking systems unit falling 21% during the period.
Finextra is proud to announce the live launch of Finextra Communities, a professional networking site developed exclusively for the global financial technology industry.
31 August 2007
UK bank Barclays says it was forced to borrow £1.6bn from the Bank of England after a technical problem with its link to the Crest settlement system left it unable to borrow in the inter-bank market to cover a short position in its accounts.
The SWX Swiss Exchange is working to fix a technical problem that hit trading in international bonds on SWX as well as dealing in warrants and structured products on Scoach, its joint venture with Deutsche Börse.
28 August 2007
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