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The load isn’t getting any lighter for the IT manager. While corporations are still trying to figure out the long term marketing benefits of social media, the security issues faced are a right now a...
It’s hard to ignore – card fraud in the UK is a significant burden, still running at over £440 million according to the latest figures from the UK Payments Association. Not surprisingly the nature of...
SWIFT magazine painting a wider picture. Only a question of time before TSU and e-invoicing services find each others. It is plain to see that a payment guarantee following on approval of an invoice c...
In the 1960s and the 1970s it was “ban the bomb”. This was the popular and catchy anti-nuclear slogan. A half century later my slogan for the “tens” (twenty-ten that is). It is simply “Ban the Mobile”...
News of the Spain based Mariposa botnet reveals close to 13 million Zombie PCs in more than 190 countries affected. Further investigation determined half of the Fortune 1000 companies had PCs on the ...
Goldman Sachs held derivatives that totaled 25,284 percent of assets in 2008 and 33,823 percent as of June 2009 (source: FDIC SDI database). Why do these big numbers matter? They represent a form of ...
The Tweet-universe demanded it, so ... it's back, the Finextra Twitterview. This time we will be Tweeting with Josh and Shamir at banksimple - a new retail ‘main street' bank due to launch soon in th...
Skimming data off of debit and credit cards has been happening at ATMs, gas pumps and electronic funds transfer point of sale terminals for quite some time. When criminals plant skimming devices, th...
I stated in my blogpost in October, 2008 : HTML (browser based) won the technology challenge for mobile banking. It seems to be true for the majority (65%) of the mobile banking users in the US, acco...
The latest stats on UK fraud from the UK Cards Association provide some interesting food for thought and it is of course excellent to see that UK credit and debit card fraud fell by 28 percent in 2009...
The ASX Disciplinary Tribunal recently slapped Citigroup Global Markets Australia (CGMA) with fines totaling $50,000 for two separate trading incidents that occurred in 2008. The first event transpire...
Statistics from the banking sector reveals that 129 000 enterprises were signed up last year. Adding a couple of additional months of brisk selling – and those signed up by a good number of non-bank s...