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EU privacy reform: who pays when the rules are broken?

June 15, 2015 publisher attention, cloud-computing, data-as-well, europe, eventually-drew, international, playa-vista, rules-expected, sap, twitter

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – New European Union data protection rules expected to be agreed on Monday will allow citizens to sue companies that own data as well as those that process it on their behalf, for example cloud computing providers. The new system is opposed by companies such as Germany’s SAP SE, International Business Machines Corp, Cisco Systems Inc and Amazon.com Inc who say it will kill off Europe’s cloud computing industry, as well as introduce uncertainty in business to business relations.

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Tech costs beat regulation, cyber as worries for financial services execs

June 15, 2015 publisher attention, berlin, cloud-computing, europe, hedge-funds, international, new-technology, playa-vista, rules-expected, sap, second-only, seen-as-slow, steal-market, willis

IT costs came second only to macroeconomic concerns such as the impact of quantitative easing, according to the survey by global risk adviser Willis of senior executives at 150 banks, insurers, reinsurers, asset managers, hedge funds and financial technology companies worldwide. “There is a rise of new entrants that are using new technology,” said Mary O'Connor, global head of Willis' financial institutions group. “Banks know they need to respond to that.” Banks and insurers have been seen as slow in responding to new technology, leaving the door open for newcomers to steal market share.

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SAP sees lower margins for years to come as cloud transition bites

January 20, 2015 publisher citywest, cloud, dublin, europe, higher-margins, industry-race, its-offices, key-profit, margins, sap, seen-at-its, stepped-up-push, until-at-least, via-cloud-based

By Harro Ten Wolde WALLDORF, Germany (Reuters) – Europe's largest software group SAP SE has cut key profit forecasts and abandoned a target for higher margins, saying its stepped-up push to deliver products via the cloud would dampen profitability until at least 2018.