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Censorship and the Brand-Ross debate

As a regular writer of articles and of course blogs, the issue of publishing material that is never overtly offensive, is of course always uppermost in mind. There should always be self discipline in ...

30 Oct 2008
Operational Risk Management
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Does a smartcard reader add value in generating an OTP?

This GEMALTO mini online banking authentication device and IBM's USB dongle stick (whatever its called) are not any better than a simple time-based OTP generator. And no, I don't work for RSA or Veri

30 Oct 2008
Information Security
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Oil companies sit and fiddle whilst the global economy burns

The announcement that BP's third quarter profits have exceeded £6billion has to be a worry for governments and just about everyone on the planet. In these times of economic worry and with the financia...

30 Oct 2008
MiFID
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Favourite technology of the future?

I read with interest ‘futurologist’ Richard Watson’s predictions for the next fifty years. So if you’re a technologist, or just wondered what life will be like in 2045, take a look at his book or the ...

30 Oct 2008
Women in Technology
Alex Noble

Abbey- did an IVR survey lock out a customer's account?

This blog sometimes flirts with the idea of news, rather than just comment, and I couldn't resist this story. I saw it today in the Scotsman (though it's also more detail here in the Daily Mail). ...

30 Oct 2008
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Have you seen my USB stick thingy er dongle?

While I commend IBM on their attempt to create a practical solution to online banking fraud, because we all know there is a real problem, but this device, which looks very similar in concept to someth...

30 Oct 2008
Whatever...
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Human rights - voluntary guidelines for the Internet?

It has been reported that the 'internet' companies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to a set of voluntary guidelines that are aimed at reducing the risk that their actions could assist in the ...

29 Oct 2008
Whatever...
Matt White

Scratch and sniff cards

With Barclaycard chief Antony Jenkins predicting that the humble plastic card is doomed as we all migrate to mobile phones and biometrics, German vendor Giesecke & Devrient looks like it has been...

29 Oct 2008
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Drop in the ocean?

The reduction in IT spending now sounds quite small compared to the 18 billion pound losses racked up by hedge funds over the last couple of days. Many had bet on VW shares going down. They rose 348% ...

29 Oct 2008
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Green or Green

I thought this was a wonderful headline; has anyone been to Canary Wharf of an evening/nightime - perhaps HSBC can sell their solar panel system to other users, must be the biggest carbon footprint in...

29 Oct 2008
A Finextra Member

Co-op bank - not quite so ethical now?

I'm appalled by this. How can a bank with an ethical policy treat its own workers like this? I shall be writing to ask them once I've calmed down a bit. I would transfer all my funds elsewhere if ther...

29 Oct 2008
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Facial recognition authentication in bank branches?

As the facial biometric authentication is developing, I can foresee a scenario, when the face of the customers are scanned by a corner camera as they step into a bank branch. The authentication is don...

29 Oct 2008
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