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If you use a 'smart phone' well then it really isn't very secure at all. Probably less so than using the average PC to connect to the internet. Apart from the numerous features available to hackers to...
PCI DSS Dos Secure your network, deploy firewalls and disable unnecessary services and protocols. Even if you are a Card Present merchant, you most likely have internet connectivity which may in...
...but SWIFT may be part of the solution. It's fair to say that the SEPA Credit Transfer go-live in January this year has been something of a non-event. SCTs have not taken off and volumes remain lo...
I agree with Marite Ferrero's comments but I also think this is a tough one simply because fraudsters - being fraudsters - will find a way anyway. However, that is not to say nothing should be done. ...
The publishing of an old article about a 2002 bankruptcy-court filing by United Airlines (UAL) on Google news on Monday has highlighted the downside of using automated and algorithmic trading applicat...
In the future web 2.0 will be critical to a bank’s success as people get more involved in using the bank to conduct transactions online banking. Additionally people are using social media sites at an...
The news article just mentions changing the pincodes. Changing the pincodes is not enough. The card numbers can be used for card not present transactions. Will there be another lawsuit much like what...
Research by Catalyst has shown that women who work in a company that has several female directors have a greater chance of climbing the corporate ladder in the USA. This follows research that found or...
In protest at this 21st century corporate mania for re-branding I suggest we go back to the original source material (as legend has it) and give Swift a distinctively groovy, retro feel.
It seem like every second day we hear about another security breach or data compromise involving usually tens of thousands of card numbers and often additional and even more sensitive information whic...
Discussion forum is one of fundamental feature of any community site. This is missing at FinExtra. We could have Discussion forums at Group level. "Connect and communicate with their peers using ...
Payments professionals jetting off to the Sibos international banking show in Austria next week can offset some of their planet-warming carbon emmissions by taking part in a simple online survey on Fi...