Responding to data theft

There have been several recent examples of banks accusing staff of stealing trading system code, data or customer information. What can financial institutions do to protect the intellectual property embedded in their computer systems? By Clive Davidson

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On April 19, Samarth Agrawal, a former quant and trader in the high-frequency trading group at Société Générale in New York, was arrested and charged with stealing some of the bank’s most valuable proprietary computer code. The case follows similar incidents over the past 18 months, where former employees of UBS, Goldman Sachs and Citadel Investment Group, the Chicago-based hedge fund, have been accused of pilfering code containing the proprietary secrets of their high-frequency trading

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