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A new Refinitiv webinar sees a panel of experts explore the issues surrounding the rise of market abuse and the challenges of monitoring trade surveillance since COVID-19 changed the work environment. https://www.refinitiv.com/perspectives/regulation-risk-compliance/trade-surveillance-and-market-abuse-covid-costs-and-compliance/ Recent articles

Many years ago, when I was still working at Reuters, long, long ago, the marketing manager came to me. Mr. Fabisch, it would be terrible if the media said our cookies made people impotent and I was the last to know about it. That was a clear and sufficient description of the problem. He wanted…

No matter what size your company is, no matter what industry, no matter what countries you operate in: Your company is the target of cyber criminals. The compliance office in particular is often a worthwhile target for attack, especially in the financial industry. A wealth of internal and external data flows together here, e.g. in…

More and more regulators worldwide are making massive demands on the financial industry to monitor electronic communications. On closer inspection, it quickly becomes clear how extensive this demand is. It involves the monitoring of mails, chats, social media and telephone, including conferencing systems such as Zoom. b-next works with various partners to solve this task, such as…

Three major topics will move compliance departments in the financial industry after the pandemic: The tumultuous further digitization of infrastructures and processes The security issues that will inevitably accompany it  The digitization of compliance tasks themselves Digital infrastructure Infrastructures were partially dissolved by the pandemic, or at least radically changed. The home office became the…