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Just 22% of industry executives say they are prepared for the additional workload that will come their way when the new Swift MT202 COV message standard comes into effect in November, according to a survey from Dow Jones Risk & Compliance.
10 September 2009
UK consumer group Which? has accused Abbey and Halifax of employing poor online security measures, leaving customers vulnerable to fraud.
27 August 2009
Over eight million Brits have handed over their Chip and PIN details to someone else in the last year, with a quarter of these falling victim to fraud, according to a survey for insurance firm LV=.
With high profile data breaches making the headlines, firms may fear they're next this summer as IT staff go on their holidays. But they needn't worry - the hackers are taking a break themselves, according to a survey from security vendor Tufin Technologies.
25 August 2009
The Finextra50 Technology Index continues its rise in July with an almost eight point gain. In a complete reversal from June, Fico was one of the top five gainers while Microgen slipped down to one of the top five losers.
12 August 2009
Ensuring compliance with changes in payments regulation, such as the migration to Sepa and the PSD, remains a priority for 40% of UK corporates, according to a survey from Experian.
10 August 2009
More Americans are now paying bills at bank Web sites than at biller-direct portals, with the 'big four' of Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo taking the lion's share of business, according to Javelin Strategy & Research.
05 August 2009
A "tremendous" amount of financial data has been stolen by a Trojan that has infected hundreds of thousands of corporate and personal PCs, according to information security specialist SecureWorks.
30 July 2009
Banks are in danger of losing online customers unless they improve the levels of personalisation and communication offered, according to US and UK surveys from analyst house Gartner.
23 July 2009
Despite the hype, cloud computing has yet to gain real support among banks, many of which are concerned about the security and potential risks of a technology they view as immature, according to a survey from TechMarketView for vendor Temenos.
21 July 2009
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published guidelines for retailers on securing wireless networks.
20 July 2009
The introduction of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has helped to significantly reduce the cost of share trading by transaction in the last couple of years. However, in terms of value of trading, costs have actually increased in five major centres, according to a study commissioned by the EC.
17 July 2009
More than two million US households have adopted online banking and bill payment during the last year, meaning the services are now used in over three quarters of homes with Internet access, according to a Fiserv-sponsored survey.
15 July 2009
Over half of financial institutions think they would have been better prepared for the credit crisis had they been able to monitor their exposures and concentration levels in real-time, and many are now belatedly investing in technology to help them do this, according to a survey from Aleri.
14 July 2009
The recession has spurred Wall street firms to investigate the use of new technology, particularly cloud computing, in a bid to overcome budgetary restrictions and skills shortages, according to a survey from IBM.
24 June 2009
Online spending in the UK is set to more than double, to £21.3 billion, by the end of 2011 as Brits turn to the Internet for deals during the recession, according to a report commissioned by PayPal.
The number of US households paying bills online will grow from 48 million this year to 63 million by 2014, driven by consolidator sites like Yodlee, according to Forrester Research.
16 June 2009
US financial services firms have lost the battle to protect the personal information of customers and must now assume that all their clients' data has been, or will be, compromised, according to TowerGroup.
Spending on electronic foreign exchange trading technology is set to soar with an "arms race" taking hold as firms look to improve execution speed, according to a survey from CEP vendor StreamBase.
09 June 2009
Pakistan's Allied Bank has signed for risk management technology from SAS to help it meet Basel II regulatory requirements and improve credit ratings.
08 June 2009
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