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Baby-boomers will soon be transferring their assets to generations X and Y, primarily defined by their exposure to technology and the web from an early age. As banks’ relationship management styles gr...
As a result of a series of high profile service outages, core banking systems are now under more scrutiny than ever before. The RBS incident last summer was just one in a list of outages that impacted...
I've been trying to figure out how the different companies get together to manage card payments. It's a complicated business, and I’m still learning. Readers, please do comment and correct my underst...
The rise of devices has led to a huge creation of data. When you include images (video and still) I can quite believe the revelation that “90% of the world’s data has been created in the last 2 years...
The government has visibility into every single one of your invoices – Do You? As we continue to explore transparency and risks in Latin America, I wanted to continue on the topic of the Foreign Corru...
Financial regulation has been the flavour of the month for quite a while now and arguably Dodd Frank has been the first name off many commentators’ lips. Whilst this is understandable given the size a...
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued a circular titled “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in the US” to authorised institutions reminding them of their obligation to ensure compliance
Recently, inspired by the upcoming EBUG conference, I felt enthused to try and get a handset with NFC working for payments. Previously i had been "marooned" on an NFC-less iPhone 4S - it had...
The new biometric security 'feature' if the Apple iPhone has already been breached using a simple photograph & common everyday items. It took members of the renowned Chaos Computer Club the blink ...
RSA Security, is alleged to have warned thousands of its customers to immediately discontinue using all versions of company's BSAFE toolkit and Data Protection Manager (DPM), both using Dual_EC_DRNG (...
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published a proposed principles based substituted compliance methodology which seeks to: minimise the burdens on regulators, maintain gl...
Big Data is one of the trends of the moment, with beautiful infographic representations of everything from social networking, video uploads, web searching and app purchases. These are, no doubt, impor...