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Ask yourself a question: do you know where your personal information is held and do you know how secure it is? When you deposit your savings into a bank account or leave your house keys with a trusted...
Last week on a retail banking conference in Prague, i have heard a dozen times from bankers' presentations, that the banks need to focus on affluent customers. They are way more profitable than the ma...
Have a look at your bank's local website in respect to business internet banking and you'll see lots of demos, and promotion of basic features like 'instant balances', 'convenient transactions' and 'a...
Online banking is about more than cost cutting. Banks are just waking up to its potential for increased revenue and new business opportunities. In this context, online security is not just a cost of b...
Is it just me or have you noticed that the pages behind the login for your bank haven't changed much in the last 5 or 6 years? According to the omnipresent Wikipedia, Stanford Federal Credit Union wa...
The problem that Barclays had last weekend shows why it is that cash and cheques should stay for the foreseeable future. At least the handing over of pieces of paper and coinage isn't hit by a system...
This report truely suggests that a time has arrived for comprehensively utlising the Online Banking channel from multiple dimensions. Traditional Banks are struggling to keep pace due to a) competiti...
I'd love someone to explain why it seems impossible these days to get any degree of consistency from organisations, especially when they have so much computing power available to them. I recently got ...
In April this year, CIFAS – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service reported that there had been a 20 per cent increase in the number of identity fraud victims in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the s...
News last week that Zeus, a virus that steals online banking details from infected computer users, is more powerful than ever should come as no surprise. The malware steals log-in information by recor...
Over the last year I have stumbled across a number of people that all prescribe transaction authentication as a trustworthy way to solve eBanking fraud. Both security researchers, security specialists...
Most of the Swedish Banks are in the move towards making their customers become electronic citizens, by equipping their customers with a banking card that also contains an electronic identity. This en...