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SIFMA talks up Wall Street cyber defences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... US Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has released its assessment report of their Wall Street cyber attack simulation and while it confirms their protocols performed adequately, it was the soft attack weapons that were the ...

Baby taper steps in one of the 'ber' months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013

Fraud and cybercrime biggest non-investment risks to family offices

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
Sustainability, data loss, fraud and theft are among the top non-investment risks faced by private families and the offices that serve them, according to The Family Wealth Alliance's 2012 Inaugural Security Study. For the study - which was conducted ...

Slow growth and regulatory burden top insurance industry fears

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... The eurozone debt crisis and reputational risk also featured highly, as did talent recruitment and retention and a growing cyber threat. "In their search for growth and revenue, insurers need to optimize capital and asset liability strategies, remain ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
"...And then I go and spoil it all by sayin' something stupid like 'we'll taper soon'." Sorry to spoil your immortal classic Frank (Sinatra) but "I love you" just doesn't apply to Ben Bernanke right now. Not with the trashing the equity markets, the ...

Wall Street to stage cyberattack wargame drill

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
Wealth management groups in the US are so concerned about cyber attacks they are staging an all out system wide drill to test their preparedness and countermeasures. The drill, code named Quantum Dawn 2, is set down for 28 June and is being co-ordinated ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
"Bye, bye miss American pie..." and pastries from Japan and China. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town dropped like flies over the past 24 hours. It would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
It's official folks...we now have a bear market -- a bear market in gold, that is. The yellow metal no longer shines Virginia. Gold's spot price closed at US$1484.07 an ounce. That's a 21.8% drop from its all-time closing high of US$1898.25 per ounce ...

Fed money on the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... stop here and my column for the day would be over but there was one other thing that caught my eye when I was surfing the cyber-universe this morning. Speculation that Greece, surprise of surprises, would be granted the next tranche of its aid? No, not ...