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Archive for: February, 2011

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 28/02/2011 | 4462 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 banking

Brett King - Movenbank - New York | 28/02/2011 | 6629 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, Payments

Tim Tyler - Misys - London | 25/02/2011 | 4063 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 banking

Oliver Parker - Rule Financial - London | 24/02/2011 | 3600 views

Consumerisation Model and a vendors response - BlackBerry

So how do you answer the question of the Consumerisation Model for smartphones? Well Research In Motion (RIM) seems to have a response for the ever-expanding BlackBerry (and soon to be PlayBook carrying) public. In BES v5.0.3 they are smuggling through a rather large but yet not discussed answer; "BlackBerry Balance", a very clever brand ...

Friso de Jong - EEI Platform - Amsterdam | 24/02/2011 | 3887 views | 1 comment

'Real costs of paper versus e-billing?' By Jon Warner

This post was posted on the EEI Platform by courtesy of the original publicist Jon Warner, CEO of PaySwyft (UK). Because of its added value its now on Finextra. "The question posed by this heading might seem to be quite simple at face value, but when we think about it, the answer is not exactly a straightforward one. This is because we are not a...