HSBC Admits Data Loss, Apologizes to Customers
March 12, 2010 HSBC's Swiss subsidiary HSBC Private Bank SA admitted Thursday that a former employee stole records on 15,000 clients and...

'Vast Gaps' in Data Protection
March 10, 2010 Most financial companies have "vast gaps" in their privacy and data protection programs

A Global View of SOA-based Policy Admin Systems
February 9, 2010 With a preference for service-oriented architectures (SOA), the U.S. market is the furthest ahead in deployments of SOA-based...

Oracle Closes in on Sun, Wall Street Worries
January 26, 2010 Let the worries begin. The European Commission Thursday approved the $7.4 billion merger between database giant Oracle and...

Dark Clouds: Demanding an End to Outages of Online Services
July 24, 2009 After getting frustrated with his previous customer relationship system--a desktop software package--Bob Barry, president of...

Enterprise Risk Management: Getting Holistic
July 13, 2009 The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that securities firms need to change the way they approach risk, needing now to...