Cybersecurity

As expected, cybersecurity appears front and center in OCIE’s 2016 exam priorities letter (see related story). The Commission is on record in stating that it ...

Cyber-attacks against financial institutions to extort payment in return for the release of sensitive information are on the rise (IA Watch, Nov. 19, 2015), states ...

Destructive malware is a unique threat in that it is both infrequent and yet potentially catastrophic. The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center called ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing enhanced requirements for a derivatives clearing organization’s testing of its system safeguards, as well as additional amendments to reorder ...

The season of giving produced two new rules from the CFTC – one a proposal that would dictate cybersecurity actions and the second a final ...

The risk to American businesses and the economy is dramatic. And the interconnectedness of our financial institutions and markets means that a failure in one ...

So if all of this is happening, what would more regulation accomplish? In other words, what is the “value add” of the rules being proposed ...

As market regulators, we can have no naïve illusions that cyber belligerents – foreign and domestic – view the world’s financial markets as anything other ...

The CFTC is amending its system safeguards rules for designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, and swap data repositories, by enhancing and clarifying existing provisions ...

Gemmer Asset Management permits IA Watch to share with you its cybersecurity policy related to access to client information.