Regulation and compliance

News on regulations and compliance requirements driving developments in software quality engineering at financial firms.

Corey Thomas, the current CEO of Rapid7

Rapid7 faces legal probe as rumours about potential sale grow

Security software testing firm Rapid7 is being investigated for securities law violations while some shareholders push for a sale of...
Joseph Sorrentino

Spotlight: the complex role of AI in quality assurance

The integration of AI into quality assurance offers both exciting possibilities and significant risks, argues industry insider Joseph Sorrentino...

API shot in the arm for finserv as CRIF teams up with UK fintech

API platforms, such as the one run by British fintech Ozone API, offer a unified set of capabilities for developing...
The ECB's headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany

ECB completes major software resilience test with 100+ banks

The major software stress test involved 109 banks directly supervised by the ECB, testing each bank’s core digital systems...
Singapore, one of the biggest finance hubs across Asia

MAS sets up panel as Singapore ramps up resilience efforts

The establishment of experts comes following several recent efforts to improve software resilience and testing capabilities in Singapore's finserv sector...

DORA: a shot in the arm for global QA regulation?

While DORA will standardise cybersecurity controls across all EU member states, Jason Harrell of DTCC thinks its impact will have...
The ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany

European banks’ digital resilience up to scratch but major risks loom

The digital resilience of most European banks is meeting ECB standards, although major challenges loom such as increasingly complex software...
Ilkka Turunen

Sonatype exec: ‘Finance firms are increasingly using open source’

Sonatype's lkka Turunen speaks to QA Financial about software composition analysis, a key requirement under the EU's new DORA...

Incident reporting and testing mechanisms top DORA’s priority list

Software testing procedures, incident reporting and firms' relationships with third party providers are some of DORA's key provisions...

QA Spotlight: the long road to uniform AI testing

While the AI testing landscape is notoriously fragmented, some developers are trying to introduce uniform standards...
The countdown to DORA is in full swing, with less than two months to go

DORA will ‘bring structure’ to incident reporting, says legal mind

DORA will impose new regulatory obligations for incident management that are 'more onerous' than existing rules, QA Financial has been...
UK-based Emma Smales

‘DORA is not a burden but an opportunity,’ says industry insider

Emma Smales discusses why DORA will create standardised processes and a centralised EU reporting hub...