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BT recently conducted a survey amongst 1000 of its staff in a bid to gauge their attitudes and approaches to online security. What caught my eye about this survey is the simple fact that going online...
I’ve briefly touched on this topic previously, but I recently gave an after-dinner speech at a fraud event in London and two of my fellow speakers happened to talk about the importance of considering ...
The case of data theft at Julius Baer is a stark reminder of the need to protect confidential information from being exploited by employees. On the whole, banks trust their employees. However once th...
I'm not, by nature, a suspicious man. But whenever I receive an unsolicited email from an institution with which I hold any kind of account, I resist the convenient temptation of clicking on the link ...
Project Oscar, the mobile wallet grouping between Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere, has had the go ahead from the European Commission to develop a single mobile wallet platform hosting cards, co...
The EMV (Chip & PIN) protocol requires ATMs and point-of-sale terminals to generate a random number. If this number (known in EMV terminology as the "unpredictable number") isn't random,...
With the Adoboli trial beginning today, please indulge me and allow me to once again look at the stock markets, and more specifically the traders that play within them. I will start with a fairly obvi...
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act represent a significant step-change in the global financial services regulatory structure. Some of the provisions associated with Dodd-Fra...
Feast in the Front Office, Famine in the Back Office – Competitive Advantage in the Middle? In the capital markets industry, the front office has seen much growth and innovation in recent years suppor...
The recent findings of the British Retail Consortium’s first e-crime study which estimates that UK retailers lost over £205 million in 2011-2012 due to e-crime caught my eye recently – particularly t...
A couple of weeks ago I got a LinkedIn invitation from someone called Tricia Bennett. I don’t know Tricia, and in such cases I’ve developed a best practice of first asking “hey mate, do I know you fro...
Scammers tend to follow an editorial calendar much like journalists do. For example when the holiday season is coming journalists often write about bargains to be had while scammers use the season as ...