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The Zeus Trojan, a nasty piece of malware has been rewritten to target users of the Firefox browser. With an estimated 30% market share, Firefox was the natural next step for the trojan writers to ta...
The latest Symantec report suggests that the number of worldwide malware samples increased by an astonishing 71% in 2009 compared to the previous year. According to the report, this increase stems fr...
I read with interest a recent press release from a technology provider announcing WHIZZ-BANG-WOW-SUPER-FAST millisecond response times for performance benchmark tests for real time fraud prevention, w...
Few can have missed the announcements from the LSE’s Turquoise and NYSE Arca Europe that they will each soon begin trading US stocks. Both venues will aim to attract the HFT/algo community which wil...
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that Finextra's sporting a proud new logo. That's right. we're celebrating our tenth birthday later this year and we thought we'd mark the occasion by commiss...
I just read the related article on Dibspace. I thought this is the perfect incentive to start a post on virtual currencies. With the start of online gaming there was a boom of virtual currencies in th...
Johanna Andersen from Nordea Bank wrote this landmark article. Return to sender is the obvious thing to do for receivers of paper or PDF invoices - as soon as the service providers - also the banks -...
What could be the critical success factors for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of Payment systems? In my humble view Payment instruments supported - ACH, Wire transfers, Cheques etc Paymen...
In an earlier post, I said that the online customer experience could be taken up a few notches by leveraging available technology. Let’s talk some more about certain innovative tools that can enhance ...
From Bruno Koch’s newsletter: “3. EU Council agrees on draft Directive regarding E-Invoicing requirements It is the objective of the European Ministers of Finance (ECOFIN) to harmonize and simplify th...
As the SEC proposes a new trading system that requires individuals or firms to register and receive a trader identification number if they plan to trade more than $20 million or 2 million shares per ...
What’s it going to take to get contactless payments off the ground? Contactless card payments have been proving more of a slow burner than a big bang, and the introduction of mobile phones with embedd...