Cybersecurity

A need exists to develop “criteria and thresholds” that could trigger joint action by the financial services industry and the government in the event of ...

A peer, Mario Hernandez, CFP®, director of operations Gemmer Asset Management ($568M in AUM) in Walnut Creek, Calif., shares an Excel file that displays his ...

All across the capital markets, technology and innovation are challenging the old ways of transacting business and old ways of thinking about regulation. There ...

All members of the National Futures Association will have to have a written cybersecurity program in place by next March. This after the Commodity Futures ...

The Cybersecurity Interpretive Notice will become effective on March 1, 2016, and applies to all membership categories--futures commission merchants, swap dealers, major swap participants, introducing ...

Today’s cybercriminals enjoy significant advantages over small and mid-size businesses. A vibrant and dynamic partnership between the public and private sectors could do much to ...

Cybersecurity is occupying a great deal of compliance officers’ attention at major financial firms, acknowledges CFTC commissioner Sharon Bowen. If some of Bowen’s ideas concerning ...

The story sounds all too familiar. An e-mail arrives that’s not what it appears to be.   “It looked legit, but it wasn’t legit,” recalls ...

Last Monday, the SEC’s New York Regional Director called cybersecurity “the issue of our time.” The next day, the agency announced its first cybersecurity enforcement ...

Cybersecurity is clearly a concern that the entire business community shares, but it represents an especially malicious threat to smaller businesses. The reason is simple: ...