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The recent article talking about the “Courier Scam” published in The Guardian is an interesting read for those of us in the industry, and an important one for both consumers and banks to pay attention...
I’ve got a sore back. Or to be more precise I’ve got a sore tail bone. I don’t know whether it’s from being thrown in a fight or from the amount of time I spend on trains commuting between home (Edinb...
We now have proof that hackers are targeting bank employees. Sadly, keyloggers, man-in-the-middle, and Trojans aren’t just for online banking customers anymore. The joint fraud alert from the FBI, FS-...
One of the issues that could have held back the adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by market participants and regulators has been the question of “who runs the system?” LEIs are going to be ...
How much thought do you put into your PIN? Is it someone’s birthday? Your vital statistics? You would think that people would try to protect their bank account balance or credit limit to the best of t...
Data breaches tend to spotlight the malevolence of hackers and hacktivists but some of the most serious vulnerabilities continue to lie closer to home in how an organisation monitors and manages inter...
Card fraud across the UK and Europe is on the increase. A recent CIFAS report suggests that in the UK alone, card fraud increased by over 26% in 2012. Pair this with other research which claims that ...
Many bankers we speak with are interested in enterprise case management software, but some have trouble getting the project funded. Here are seven justifications that we've seen in successful business...
The breaking news from the US indicating that over 160million credit and debit card numbers have been stolen, whilst not unpredictable, is still quite staggering. Early estimates suggest around $300
Chrysler Corporation recently issued a vehicle recall, it’s twelfth since June this year, affecting 840,000 of its automobiles around the world. Chrysler said it’s a pre-emptive measure, and cited a ...
Last month the UK Government backed many of the core proposals in the UK Parliamentary Banking Commission’s final report. This included proposals to make senior bankers individually responsible for th...
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...