1137 Results from 2015
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Wow, a lawyer in Memphis got scammed by his secretary—she embezzled over $362,000 from him, says an article on wreg.com. Attorney Jerry Schatz hired Teresa Sumpter, 48, in July of 2013. Little did he know that his assistant would end up stealing checks from his trust account, forging her signature on them, and opening three credit cards—all in his ...
31 December 2015 /security
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
This year's SIBOS hosted in Singapore was a wakeup call for all the transaction banker to focus on redefining value delivered to customer. An excellent keynote from Piyush Gupta, CEO DBS group stresses on the fact that Asia is transforming from factory of the world to market place of the world. He also, emphasised on how Digital technology is cha...
30 December 2015 /sibos Fintech innovation and startups
Every business is getting disrupted by high speed Internet connectivity, smart mobile devices at low price points and availabilityof digital infrastructure & computing power on demand (CLOUD). This is amplified by the great demographic condition exist today (1st time in the world millennial are more than baby boomers). As we enter the age of c...
29 December 2015 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
One of the first things taught in the theory of statistics is that correlation does not mean causation. Falls and rises in a couple of trends may match up, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that one causes the other or that they are linked in any way. You can see this in the work of statistics researcher Tyler Vigen, who has found that data can sh...
27 December 2015
Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH
The payments landscape is changing fast – and much of this fast-paced change is being driven by today’s digitally empowered consumers, whose expectations have been transformed by the smartphone and the services these supply. This means that more than ever before, consumers expect payments to be fast, convenient and hassle-free. And that’s set payme...
25 December 2015 /payments
What’s wrong with these people? Is it because mathematics has been dropped from the engineering syllabus at universities, or is it because everyone employs the same incompetent security people to do the architecture of their security system? Making the whole thing bulletproof is easy, and I’ll explain how it’s done – if only to show how little unde...
25 December 2015 /security /retail
Are you a cyber-blabber? Even a post about your daily afternoon foray to the sub sandwich shop could get you in trouble: A burglar reading this knows when to rob your house. But it doesn’t end there. STOP THE MADNESS! The Giants: Facebook and Twitter Be careful what you post on Facebook and tweet about. It can be used against you in court, even so...
24 December 2015 /security
It took me 51 hours to get home from Singapore. Don’t ask! Before I arrived back in San Francisco the good folks in SWIFT Standards were already busy comparing notes and transcribing the snapshots of the white board from each session. The fruits of this labor are now available for all to see. See here: https://swift.emsecure.net/images/Teams/sta...
23 December 2015 Standards Forum
Ainsley Ward Vice President, Payments Solutions at CGI
If I walk into a shop, pick up any item and then walk out again, the chances are that store security will stop me and I'll probably end up in court pretty soon. Likewise if I walked into a bank branch and demanded all the cash, it's likely my face will end up on Crimewatch UK and the court will beckon. So I won't try either of those crimes (even i...
23 December 2015 /payments /regulation
Consumer demand, the adoption of new payment methods, competition, regulation, digital transformation and security are powering the self-service revolution in banking. This well-publicised transformation is fuelling something interesting under the surface – the collections process. The customer journey in banking is potentially one of the longest i...
23 December 2015 /payments /retail
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