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AFP has published this year's report on Payment Frauds last week. As always, year after year more corporates have indicated they were victims of payment frauds. From Banker's point of view, this highlights the need to strengthen the service offerings addressing the open risks foreseen by corporates in this domain, parallely to strengthen the opera...
06 April 2009 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
The other week I was participating in a Computer Weekly / British Telecom workshop regarding Collaboration Technology. I made the point that as well as using Technology to enable Collaboration we need to encourage people to take precautions not to freely share commercially sensitive or personal data. I advised the other participants that most if no...
03 April 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...
German authorities have ended their search for a female serial killer after discovering that DNA thought to be from 40 crime scenes actually came from a woman who packed the cotton swabs used to gather evidence. The German police collected DNA from the scenes of crimes ranging from break-ins to murder. The samples were stored on a DNA database and ...
According to the BBC - and who doesn't follow Peston these days ..... On behalf of the G20, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the following steps: Bankers' pay and bonuses will be subject to stricter controls A new Financial Stability Board will be set up to work with the IMF to ensure co-operation across borders and provide an early warning m...
02 April 2009 /regulation /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Keith Saxton Global Director Financial Markets at IBM
IBM Viewpoint on Systemic Risk: Transparency Key to Global Financial Reform Shaping global financial reform has been a dominant theme in the lead up to the G20 summit. Calls for “strong oversight,” as well as “rigorous transparency and accountability” of the financial sector have been deemed essential to avoid a repeat of the turmoil. The iss...
02 April 2009 /regulation /wholesale
The Chartered Management Institute, in association with the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, has just released the Business Continuity Management Report 2009 (the 10th annual report in the series) appropriately titled “A Decade of Living Dangerously” Selected Highlights : The survey was sent to a random sample of 15,000 CMI ...
02 April 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
With the world watching Conficker has reached out but has not delivered any new malware. Computer World reports “We have observed that Conficker is reaching out, but so far none of the servers they are trying to reach are serving any new malware or any new commands,” said Toralv Dirro, a security strategist at McAfee Avert Labs, in Germany. The se...
01 April 2009 /security /regulation
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The man who wrote the software that became the industry-standard method for securitising mortgages tells all, in this mesmerising account of a 15-year career on Wall Street that runs from the go-go 80s through to the high-living excesses of the noughties.
01 April 2009 /regulation /wholesale
Credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters. Silly criminal hackers need to tighten up their data security controls and not publish sensitive data like that! Reuters reports - Fraud on the Internet reported to U.S. authorities increased by 33 percent last y
31 March 2009 /security /regulation
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
Whether it is certain bonuses in financial sector, or league tables and performance stars in the public sector, there have been numerous recent illustrations of the harm that poorly set business targets can cause. It seems deceptively easy in theory to use targets and rewards to drive desired behaviour. Take the mine detecting bees for example. No...
31 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
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