The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) become law across Europe on 1 November, bringing major technology challenges to the investment industry.
IT directors and chief information officers face barriers limiting their ability to deploy identity management technology, including the inability of products to work across company boundaries, lack of common standards, and unclear contractural obligations.
Travel loyalty scheme Airmiles is on course to achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in March following a 14-month project.
Cadbury Schweppes is rolling out a strategy to reduce the risks major IT projects pose to the business by creating a library of reusable software components.
Counsellors do it, actors do it, and people advertising on handwritten cards in telephone boxes do it. Although role playing is not common in IT departments, if they were to do more of it, it might prevent the kind of situation that analyst Rob Enderle remembers occurring at an IT company several years ago.
Markit Boat, the trade reporting platform developed to meet the requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), will initially be offered for free.