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Archive for: November, 2010

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 30/11/2010 | 6581 views | 1 comment

ZeusiLeaks

I don’t know about you, but I was a bit disappointed with the whole WikiLeaks thingy. I mean, come on. The build up was brilliant: you would have thought we’ll finally have irrefutable evidence that a UFO landed in Roswell, that JFK assassination was indeed a CIA ploy, and that the 1969 moon landing was a NASA concocted hoax. Instead w... Tags: Security, Online banking

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 30/11/2010 | 3542 views

Carbon Copy

February saw The Big Carbon Robbery. I explained about this unorthodox cash out method here; it’s quite simple really. Every EU country has a carbon emission quota; every polluting manufacturer within that country buys carbon emission licenses in a trading platform. These licenses are expensive, and if you just steal the user name and passwor... Tags: Security, Online banking

Sanat Rao - Infosys Technologies Ltd - London | 30/11/2010 | 3337 views

How adopting industry best practices affects your customers

With information being available at will, the world is one’s oyster. For banks, the democratisation of information represents an opportunity to stay abreast of the world’s latest developments and absorb its best practices more easily. This is also positive from the customers’ point of view. Over the years, cross-industry learnin... Tags: Retail banking, Retail banking

Brett King - Movenbank - New York | 26/11/2010 | 3831 views | 1 comment

What Beatles on iTunes means for Banking...

The Beatles are arguably one of the most successful bands of all time, but their foray into the digital music space has long been frustrated. In their first week on the iTunes store, however, the Beatles amassed a staggering 2 million individual song downloads and over 450,000 in albums sales. Not bad for a band who stopped recording music 30 years... Tags: Online banking, Retail banking

Sanat Rao - Infosys Technologies Ltd - London | 24/11/2010 | 3491 views

How do rapid innovations simplify banking customers needs?

With so many banking delivery options, channel innovation should have run out of steam or new ideas. But it’s amazing that its run is still sustaining, fuelled by new technology, consumer evolution and other market forces. What is the secret behind the success of banking technology and innovation? Simply that it passes the acid test of cons... Tags: Payments, Retail banking