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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...
An SMS arrived from Barclays this morning. "Make sure you upgrade AND LOG IN [sic] to the latest version of the Barclays Mobile Banking app BEFORE [sic] you install iOS7". Guess what! Too la...
Does the banking sector really need more regulation than it already has coming? A UK IT trade body is proposing 'enforceable infrastructure standards' after an IT disruption in one of the country's pr...
All business activities come with an element of risk, whether it’s strategic or operational failures, financial failures or even environmental disasters. Risk comes in all forms and affects all areas ...
Big Trade - Big Data At SIBOS this week people were shouting about “Big Data, Big Data" https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=8175 It made me think what about trade? – What about B...
Regulators and exchanges continue to scratch their heads over how to protect financial markets from the dangers that are inherent in automated trading. The potential exposure to market distortions and...
You need to service customers and employees on mobile devices such as browsers, tablets and smartphones with live, dynamic information. But within the financial services industry (amongst many other i...
We all know that we will lot of new regulations coming today and tomorrow. Thus that means financial institutions even need to generate so many new reports also. Thus I feel it will good topic to disc...
PaySwarm has the potential to fundamentally change the way payments are made online. But why is this one different from the umpteen other funky web based payment innovations? Firstly, it is free. O...