Cybersecurity

As predicted, the issue of cybersecurity has once again made an appearance in FINRA’s 2015 regulatory and examinations priority letter (IA Watch, Nov. 25, 2014). ...

SIFMA continues to hammer away at FINRA’s controversial CARDS proposal (IA Watch, Dec. 4, 2014). This time the ammunition being used to combat the proposal ...

Evolving technological innovation, ever-increasing cyber incidents and the constant need to secure consumer data all have financial services firms’ laser focused on their cybersecurity efforts. ...

David Edwards is a man who wears many hats for his New York City-based Heron Financial Group. He is the founder, president, portfolio manager and ...

Don’t even think about encrypting everything. That would be unfeasible. But you should know where your firm stores personally identifiable information (PII) – such as ...

The results aren’t particularly surprising but surely can’t be ignored any longer. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of more than 750 money managers, banks and other financial ...

Schemes involving digital currency and cybersecurity risks, binary options, marijuana-related businesses and stream-of-income investments top the list of emerging threats investors will likely face in ...

The percentage of investment advisers examined by the SEC in the 2014 fiscal year that ended in September hit 10% of the RIA population for ...

Given technology’s role in the securities industry and troubling IT events, such as the flash crash, SEC commissioners voted Nov. 19th to adopt Regulation SCI. ...

The CFTC is placing an increased emphasis on the cybersecurity and business continuity disaster recovery planning efforts of the institutions it regulates. “The need to ...