In 2018, there were over 1200 publicly disclosed security breaches globally with the number of exposed records more than doubling from 197.6 million in 2017 to 446.5 million last year* as reported by Fortune. The number and scale of attacks has
The amount of data is exponentially growing. A paper by IDC, Data Age 2025, said that 16.3 zettabytes of information was generated in 2017 (one zettabyte is 1 billion terabytes), and forecasted this amount would rise to as much as
The Maples Group has appointed Hugo Lodge as a partner in its Regulatory & Compliance legal practice. Lodge joins the Group’s Cayman Islands office from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, where he led the new team responsible for the
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM) has partnered with Russian analysts Evgeny Gavrilenkov and Alexander Kudrin, the founders of GKEM ANALYTICA, a macroeconomic research firm focused on macroeconomics and financial markets. GKEM ANALYTICA will collaborate with BCS GM’s award-winning analyst team
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), an investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who perform investment and operational due diligence programmes, is offering its members preferred access to the Convergence database of operational due diligence tools and analytics. “IMDDA
Scope Analysis, a specialist in the analysis and rating of asset management companies and certificate issuers, as well as mutual funds and alternative investment funds, has published an updated Asset Management Rating Methodology for Alternative Investments. Asset managers and investors
Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, is working with Lendingblock, an institutional lending exchange for digital assets, to implement anti-money laundering technology and best practices in anticipation of global regulatory guidance from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Lendingblock is committed
The first wave of middle-office outsourcing deals came on the heels of the the credit crisis in 2008. Given this timing, it should come as no surprise that the origin of these first generation deals was driven by cost savings.
As the global market for investment research continues to unbundle post MiFID II, RSRCHXchange has added to its service offering as an aggregator and marketplace for written research with a new suite of functionality for other research services. Buy-side users
Companies are increasingly incorporating corporate event data into their trading strategies in order to mitigate monetary losses and react more quickly to market volatility, according to Wall Street Horizon’s latest Corporate Event Research Survey. The survey, which polled more than
