Microsoft Calibri lands ex Pakistan PM in the dock

The Panama Papers—a collection of documents leaked from off-shore law firm Mossack Fonseca in 2014—included documents that appeared to indicate that Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz ...

Don’t google how to insider trade just before you insider trade!

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against a research scientist who allegedly searched the internet for “how sec detect unusual trade” b...

The FCA cares about your IT Infrastructure

“Regulated firms continue to face challenges from the pace of technological change […] This places strains upon existing, legacy IT environments which were designed to ...

FCA Specialist Supervision now includes “Technology and Resilience” focusing on Outsourcing

“Specialist supervisionTo ensure that we continue to properly regulate markets and the firms within them we have specialist teams who focus on supervising specific activities...

MiFID II Call Recording – The winners & losers

Looking at the FCA final policy statement on MiFID II it seems that the call recording requirements have some definite winners and losers.At the peak of the winners are Private Equ...

FCA evaluated 47 firms Cyber Resilience last year, many more this year

“So far, we have evaluated the cyber resilience arrangements in place at 11 high frequency traders and 36 general insurers and intermediaries. We plan to cover firms across t...

FCA advised in 78 Cyber Attacks in 2016-2017

In a FOI release the FCA stated:“As at 20 December 2016, in the last 12 months we had received 78 cyber-attack reports which were on financial advice firms, of which 3 were r...

GMail guesses at your emails’ provenance – which is bad

There is a basic sniff test for email provenance on the internet called Sender Policy Framework (‘SPF’).  It’s designed to prevent email forgery and is relatively...

FCA Cyber Attacks and Principle 11 Reporting

“Under Principle 11,you must report material cyber incidents.” You may consider an incident material if:it results in significant loss of data, or the availability or c...

Interactive – World’s Biggest Data Breaches

Information IS beautiful!!http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/...