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Archive for: August, 2010

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 31/08/2010 | 4911 views

Miserable public isolation

Reading OECD "Forum on tax administration:Taxpayer services sub-group" Survey Report (March 2010). "Why citizens don' use revenue bodies'/governments' e-service" Despite all the success stories we have seen when: - the public sector realises that it is not the only service citizens use - and in fact one of the most infrequently used and then ... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Colin Day - SunGard - London | 31/08/2010 | 3129 views

Dumbo the Elephant - elephants really do fly!

You may recall in my last blog posting ‘The Wolf is at the Door – if he huffs and he puffs can he blow the bank down?’ we started to explore the scenario of hikes in interest rate and the impact upon commercial lending books. The blog seems to have resonated with a number of you judging by the comments I received over the past c... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale banking

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 30/08/2010 | 6869 views

My wife has a Trojan!

A couple of months ago my wife, who works for a small start-up, got a brand new laptop for remote access. A small, white thing that looked pretty but, I suspected, came with little security, given that whenever I shoulder-surfed her I saw warnings like “no anti-virus installed”. So when she wasn’t looking, I sat down to investiga... Tags: Security, Online banking

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 23/08/2010 | 3463 views

First Class flights and Margaritas on the beach

You spend all year long working, and in summer time you deserve some R&R. Option 1: look after holiday packages. Fly charter, book a reasonably priced hotel, and rent a compact car to do some sightseeing. Option 2: search for the most expensive destination you can find. Fly first class, book an all-inclusive five star resort with morning mass... Tags: Security, Online banking

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 22/08/2010 | 2861 views

Time for WHY not!

Once invoicing has migrated from paper and PDF to structured form - increasingly in the soon ready open global ISO standard - a wealth of productivity enhancing practices can be launched. Examples: - automated accounting (as e-invoices carries increasingly common posting codes) especially for the SME-sector - creating de-facto real time accounti... Tags: Online banking, Payments