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Financial services data breaches recorded

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... any unauthorised access to the systems of an entity. The findings of the report arrive after damning results of a Kamino Cyber Security survey were released in March. The survey looked into the sentiment of cyber security in the financial services industry ...

Top industry fund bets on DNA sequencing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
Hostplus has joined global investment giants backing a UK-based DNA sequencer, placing $27.5 million in the technology company behind the product. Oxford Nanopore Technologies says it makes the world's only handheld DNA/RNA sequencing devices. Other ...

Advisers underprepared for cyber risk high-stakes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
Financial advisers and superannuation funds understand the stakes behind cyber incidents but it's not reflected in business preparation and protection processes. This is a key finding in the latest industry survey from Kamino Cyber Security, a division ...

No room for complacency: Rowell

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... disability insurance, tackling multiple insurance accounts and covers, and reconsidering default MySuper products. Addressing cyber threats, Rowell said APRA is slated to finalise a prudential standard on IT security by November for a July 2019 implementation. ...

Reinvigorated OneVue inches up platform rankings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... this challenge," Choi said. Further, the findings show platforms are responding to the growing concern from advisers around cyber threats. Choi said combating fraudulent client withdrawal requests is of particular focus for platforms, given about one-quarter ...

Super funds embrace crowdsourced cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... application security approach that is currently leaving many organisations vulnerable to a growing number of data breaches and cyber-attacks," Hostplus said. "These alternative investments play an important role in Hostplus' fully-diversified portfolio ...

SEC cracks down on fee transparency

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it will crackdown on financial product providers' fee disclosures the year ahead in a bid to protect mum and dad investors. The SEC made it clear that one of its main priorities this year is ...

Financial services pay top dollar for compliance, IT skills

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
In the wake of recent financial services and bank scandals, job opportunities in risk management and compliance within the sector are forecast to boom in 2018, Robert Walters' latest salary survey shows. With large-scale remediation projects in banking ...

Consistent growth fuels Future Fund cyber fears

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
The constant risk of a cyberattack on the Future Fund's investment portfolio is among its top concerns. Future Fund chairman Peter Costello said in a portfolio update this morning that the sovereign wealth fund considers cybersecurity risk to be a major ...

Small advice firms face big data breach penalties

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... organisations, the impact of a breach on a small business is devastating," she said. Unauthorised accesses which spans from cyber-attacks to employees or independent contractors stealing clients' personal information and that can result in serious harm ...