Cybersecurity

March 1 ushers in the new cybersecurity rule from the National Futures Association, as scary stories continue to mount about cyber hackers trolling the industry ...

NFA recognizes that a one-size-fits-all approach will not work for the application of these requirements. The Cybersecurity Interpretive Notice adopts a principles-based risk approach to ...

As expected, cybersecurity appears front and center in OCIE’s 2016 exam priorities letter (see related story). The Commission is on record in stating that it ...

Cyber-attacks against financial institutions to extort payment in return for the release of sensitive information are on the rise (IA Watch, Nov. 19, 2015), states ...

Destructive malware is a unique threat in that it is both infrequent and yet potentially catastrophic. The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center called ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing enhanced requirements for a derivatives clearing organization’s testing of its system safeguards, as well as additional amendments to reorder ...

The season of giving produced two new rules from the CFTC – one a proposal that would dictate cybersecurity actions and the second a final ...

The risk to American businesses and the economy is dramatic. And the interconnectedness of our financial institutions and markets means that a failure in one ...

So if all of this is happening, what would more regulation accomplish? In other words, what is the “value add” of the rules being proposed ...

As market regulators, we can have no naïve illusions that cyber belligerents – foreign and domestic – view the world’s financial markets as anything other ...