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Secure Electrans are on a mission to combat e-comm fraud. The concept is simple - give consumers a free PIN pad for home use, so that every e-comm transaction can be done with the same level of secur...
The Treasury's response to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standard's investigation, published last week, was largely greeted with relief in the City with share prices on banks soaring. But th...
A professional cycling team's captain is not unlike a big bank's risk manager It’s July, and to many that means just one thing: the100th edition of the Tour De France! Established in 1903, ostensibly ...
Mobile banking is something that many in the UK banking sector have been resolutely sticking their heads in the sand about. Latest figures from industry analysts show that the UK lags well behind
The rumours about iPhone and NFC are being circulated again. That caused a new wave of excitement within the NFC community where NFC-enabled iPhone is seen as the white knight. Yet, if (IF!) Apple in...
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published its technical findings on the long-term guarantee package, a set of potential measures aimed at facilitating the provis...
July’s ‘Wired Money’ event saw a range of innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups pitching their new financial technology business ideas. One topic that really captured my interest was firms addressi...
When companies merge, combining IT systems is always a headache for IT departments, but migrating data to the Cloud adds a further level of complexity. In these instances, there are three main issues ...
So, the sequel to how the nascent trend of gamification is raising its head amidst various user engagement innovations is back. While the focus in my last post was to create an appreciation of the po...
Capital is expensive, compliance is exacting, competition is intense and customer dynamics have changed – that, in brief, is the 'New Normal' in banking. As the pressure on margins and profitability m...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a consultation paper - “Best Practice Principles for Improving Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections”. The consultatio...
In an era of mobile first, when any software product manager is chastised for not putting mobile front and center in any roadmap, and when online giants like Facebook pivot to mobile in a big way (or ...