The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened to regulate advertising for online investment companies. The SEC said it believes adverts used to entice potential clients are misleading - suggesting that simply by signing up...
Mike Pullen, partner at law firm DLA, claimed legislation from the European Commission added to the weight of UK regulations companies must comply with. For a small business or new dot-com to know which consumer law they have to comply with in 17...
Legislation that's passed in the last two years - Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and California's Security Breach Information Act - is forcing companies to meet minimum levels of security for their...
On the face of it, there seems to be little for the security industry in Sarbanes-Oxley, which aims to make corporate accounting more transparent, or in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which deals with health care...
The need to comply to new laws and regulations is part of what's driving growth here, along with improving customer interaction and operations management. The finance, public and healthcare sectors are going to be particularly fertile areas for IT...
Nevertheless, the fear of large fines for failure to comply with regulations, along with the risk of a damaged reputation, can encourage a global bank to spend more than $2m on an AML system. On the surface these reasons alone seem likely to deter...