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Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 28/02/2011 | 7878 views | 1 comment

How Visa card-to-card cash transfer work in practice?

Be interested to fully understand how it works - for example : a) how does the recipient get informed that the funds are available? b) if they go to the ATM to withdraw the funds as Cash, what are the fees? Presumably there is withdrawal/handling fee, but does the Card Issuer charge the usual Cash Advance Daily Fees? Does the advance count as pa... Tags: Cards, PaymentsGroup: Whatever...

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 28/02/2011 | 2970 views | 1 comment

4 Reasons 2011 is the Year to Get Serious About Security

Prognosticators are silly. Or that’s how I’ve always viewed them, anyway. They combine past experience with their perspective on current trends to make predictions and pretend to be smarter than you. Many prognosticators in the financial world have failed miserably, and we’re all paying the price now. Their current excuse is &ldq... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 28/02/2011 | 4457 views

ZeusiLeaks Archives File 004: Earnings Season

In this ahort ZeusiLeaks file I’ll talk about why it’s not a good idea if you’re a public company and your PR agency has Zeus infected machines during earning season… Quick reminder: WikiLeaks, the largest leak of data the world has seen? Nonsense! Trojans like Zeus and SpyEye lurk on millions of personal, corporate and g... Tags: Security, Online bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Brett King - Movenbank - New York | 28/02/2011 | 6621 views | 9 comments

Think NFC is going to take years? You're wrong...

There’s a great deal of debate in the Financial Services community at the moment about the potential impact of NFC or Near-Field Communication technology within mobile phones and how it will effect the payments landscape. The financial services players are generally scratching their heads and although they admit that NFC phones like the iPhon... Tags: Cards, PaymentsGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Tim Tyler - Misys - London | 25/02/2011 | 4061 views

Freedom to bank via mobile?

I remember when I first became involved in online banking we had to ensure the site was optimised for very low bandwidth connections. One of my very earliest deployments the bank actually went live with their online banking service connected to the web with nothing more than a 56k modem - so the optimisation had to work both ways. Today, for the... Tags: Online banking, Retail bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services