Jessica Dore leads Rehmann’s Technology Risk Management Group, overseeing cybersecurity assessments, information security assessments, vulnerability and penetration testing, social engineering testing and information security training. Below are her tips for businesses to stay safe during the biggest shopping spree of the season.
Customer engagement isn't what it used to be in the financial services industry. To quote Bob Dylan: 'The times they are a-changin'. In the digital era, consumer behaviour, attitudes and their channel preferences through which they interact with brands are all evolving to reflect a growing reliance on digital technologies.
As a New Year and indeed decade approaches, there is growing consensus that Europe’s real estate market is entering the last stages of the current investment cycle. The US vs. China trade war, Brexit and geopolitical risks in the Middle East have contributed to a slowdown by generating market uncertainty over the last year. Although Europe’s economy may avoid recession, growth is widely expected to remain subdued over the next 12 to 18 months and there are lingering questions about how much further the cycle has to run. Rosanna Woods, UK Managing Director at Drooms, explores the future of the real estate industry in Europe.
Training and Competence (T&C) was introduced into UK financial services back in the 1990s along with requirements around professional qualifications. The purpose of the rules around T&C was to ensure that individuals providing advice to retail consumers were competent to do so, therefore minimising the risk of detriment to the customer, the firm or both. Since then, T&C has gone through a variety of iterations depending on who the regulator of the day was; introduced under LAUTRO in 1993, updated by the PIA in 1997, taken forward by the FSA in 2001 and then subsequently given more prominence by the FCA in 2014.
Michael Ou, CEO of CoolBitX, a blockchain security company and creator of the first hardware wallet that enables bluetooth-to-smartphone pairings, shares his thoughts on what needs to be done to bridge the gap between the mainstream market and cryptocurrency industry.
Professional male sports players are notorious for their astonishing annual salaries, with the likes of football, boxing and Formula 1 racers earning players millions of pounds each year.
For hundreds of years, banks have been following a simple yet effective business model – they take money in from depositors and lend it out to borrowers. Despite public consensus, there is nothing more complex than that.
A global survey of institutional investors commissioned by BlackLine, Inc. reveals that 82% of global investors believe companies in their portfolio often resort to legal but ‘creative’ accounting tactics in order to attract or satisfy investors, causing investors to increase scrutiny over portfolio company financials.
From the characteristics of MITC fraud arrangements to the tangible damage that such schemes can cause, below Jérôme Bryssinck, Head of Government Solutions at Quantexa, talks Finance Monthly through the options for fighting VAT carousel fraud. Europol believes that missing trader intra-community (MITC) fraud (usually known as ‘VAT Carousel’ fraud) costs authorities around €60 billion […]
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