What's behind the broken banks?

	Samsung invests $976M in chip equipment maker ASML | Dan Morris: Bank technology outages: How regulation can help
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	What's behind the broken banks? Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own benefit. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Become a Cloud expert at AWS re: Invent Amazon Web Services invites you to AWS re:Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. Hear how companies are migrating their IT applications to the Cloud. Learn best practices for managing security, monitoring your resources, optimizing performance, and cutting costs. Get your questions answered by AWS experts to help you get started. Register today for AWS re: Invent, the largest gathering ever of the AWS community. In this Issue Samsung invests $976M in chip equipment maker ASML Dan Morris: Bank technology outages: How regulation can help SEC to require tech companies to disclose use of minerals from conflict zones PayPal, Discover to partner on in-store payments WHITE PAPER: Compuware Overcome Limitations of Traditional APM Discover a 3rd generation approach that proactively prevents performance, scalability and stability issues from ever reaching production in the first place. Learn More. Samsung invests $976M in chip equipment maker ASML Following Intel and contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Samsung Electronics will invest $976 million in Dutch chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML to further development of next-generation lithography technology that should enable faster and more power-efficient chips. Read More Dan Morris: Bank technology outages: How regulation can help The recent system outages in banking systems point to an underlying and growing issue within banks. The impact of some of these outages has been so severe that it has led some to describe retail banks as IT companies with banking licenses.  While this is an extreme view, the failures do highlight that the technology infrastructure at the core of banking operations is in a poor state -- another item to add to the list of regulator concerns.  Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Managing Threats in the Digital Age The topic of security is now unquestionably a C-suite priority. An enterprise that delegates security matters solely to the CIO is compounding its risk factors. Organizations need to move toward a more systematic and proactive approach to addressing security threats and managing compliance requirements. Read Now SEC to require tech companies to disclose use of minerals from conflict zones The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a regulation on Wednesday requiring companies to publicly disclose if they used minerals that originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo or adjoining countries, a measure that will impact technology companies as well. Read More PayPal, Discover to partner on in-store payments PayPal and Discover said 7 million merchants accepting Discover credit cards will begin accepting payments for in-store purchases from PayPal's 50 million users starting in the second quarter of 2013. Read More
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