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The fact that 64 % of respondents cited security concerns as a factor preventing them from migrating wholly to online banking doesn’t come as a surprise to me. Why? Because what we’re hearing from the...
Andy MacLellan, Head of Cloud, Onyx Group How long does your data need to be backed up for? It’s a question most businesses take for granted, working on the assumption their IT department have taken ...
Analysts, regulators, vendors and financial institutions have been falling over each other touting the benefits of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and anti-fraud joining forces. And rightfully so. However...
I recall a passionate debate in 2011 with some colleagues on if internationally trusted national passports (sometime in future) will be ever trusted by businesses to allow people access to their premi...
I found the recent study by University of California, Berkley (UCB) on Mobile Payments: Consumer Benefits and New Privacy Concerns an interesting read (see news report here). It found that an overwhel...
I love online Personal Financial Management tools. These web based services which allow people to visualize and manage their financial lives in one place, using pretty graphs to show where their money...
I have recently returned from the IBM Impact conference in Las Vegas. During the scant free time I had available, I took some time out to visit the local Apple store. As in all such stores, you are su...
The 57th presidential election might be one of the most talked about contests in the U.S. this year, but if you really want to see some action it’s the U.S. payments space where your attention needs t...
The last couple of weeks have seen UK newspapers filled with stories over UK Government plans to expand its monitoring activities to include email and social media. The two extreme ends of the point o...
Hacking a business Twitter account seems to be a favorite pastime for those wanting some kind of retribution and for others it’s just plain fun. Once the businesses Twitter account is hacked their r...
Charges on corporate credit cards can often go unnoticed even when employees are submitting expense reports. Especially if the charges are small. The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit describin...
Stolen phones are a big problem here in the US. Many are stolen in robberies. Robberies are, by definition, violent crimes, and there are many instances of robberies of mobile phones that resulted in ...