Organization as it functions on a day to day basis. Tonight, at 8 p. M. Eastern, on cspans q a. On thursday, richard smith, the former ceo and chairman equifax, testified on the data breach at his company that compromise the records of an 100 40 Million Consumers. This testimony to the House Financial Services committee was his fourth appearance before a Congressional Committee in a week. Its three hours and 15 minutes. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a risk a t any time. Entitledng is examining the Equifax Breach. September 7, equifax announced what it called a Cyber Security incident. 145 million u. S. Consumers, nearly half of all americans. If you are hearing my voice your either the victim of the breach or know someone who is. Thats how massive this was. Criminals got everything they need to steal your identity, open credit card accounts in thise and cause you may be the most harmful the world has ever seen. The companys response has left much
It was mr. Smiths third such questioning in a weeks time. And most of the subcommittees inquiries focused on the speed of the Credit Reporting agencys response to the knowledge its data servicers had been infiltrated by nefarious forces. This is about an hour and 40 minutes. Jo this hearing of the subcommittee on privacy, technology, and law, will come to order. Were here to examine per sis sent cybersecurity concerns in the data broker industry. This is not the first time our subcommittee has gathered to do so after a cybersecurity breach last august, we held a hearing to ask the question how secure is consumers data in the hands of data brokers. The answer, not very secure. The industry immediately responded by committing to take serious Security Issues and pledging to dedicate resources toward Data Protection measures. Yet here we are two years later in the wake of what we now know as the largest breach of private consumer data. Were trying to figure out how it happened once again.
Settlement cycle and it has also become the first in the region to permit short selling. We spoke to the c. E. O. Of the middle east biggest equity market. What i would like to see is the growing number day after day and year after year. We have an ownership limit of 49 and wed love to see a few achieve that level. The other big theme has been ipos and were hearing whispers of more Family Companies considering ipos as well. How many ipos are you looking forward to in 2017 to bring liquidity into this market . Well, today after launching the Second Market were looking at ipos from two different sides, offering two platforms for listing. He main market and nmo has been very active as expected. It has been granted approval 20 we can say that at least Saudi Companies have fired their Financial Advisers. We see a very healthy ipo pipeline on the market. Out of those 20 are there more Family Offices considering ultimately the thinking was it has encouraged more of the private companies to co
Settlement cycle and it has also become the first in the region to permit short selling. We spoke to the c. E. O. Of the middle east biggest equity market. What i would like to see is the growing number day after day and year after year. We have an ownership limit of 49 and wed love to see a few achieve that level. The other big theme has been ipos and were hearing whispers of more Family Companies considering ipos as well. How many ipos are you looking forward to in 2017 to bring liquidity into this market . Well, today after launching the Second Market were looking at ipos from two different sides, offering two platforms for listing. He main market and nmo has been very active as expected. It has been granted approval 20 we can say that at least Saudi Companies have fired their Financial Advisers. We see a very healthy ipo pipeline on the market. Out of those 20 are there more Family Offices considering ultimately the thinking was it has encouraged more of the private companies to co
Older competition that used to be held for Young Athletes between ages 6 for 15 to show their skills in nfl. It was called the punt, pass and kick competition. It appears that thats actually being discontinued. The announcement came in may after more than 55, 56 years of it. But it looks like the senate is up to the task in terms of punting, passing, and the more throw to the side sense or kicking approach. Well see how much more of that competition renews when the senate is back next week and perhaps for the balance of the month as well. Had to be careful with this because the nfl is rather agressive on its trade name protection so this is a news shot as opposed to violating any nfl ordinances or pass, punt and kick in fact theyre leave it behind and want to give everybody a certificate for being on the field like soccers. Were starting a today a different series of Health Policy events. Everybody has been caught up in the politics and i thought id try something different, which is fl