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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Identity Theft 2010 Top 10 Predictions

The Identity Theft Resource Center® (ITRC) and Robert Siciliano (me) have joined forces to expand the pool of knowledge about identity theft issues. As nationally recognized experts in this crime, we have come up with the Top 10 predictions for what the nation might expect in the area of identity theft in 2010 and beyond. 1. More Scams: The recess...

/security /regulation

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Happy Holidays

Now that everyone at Fidessa Towers is starting to wind down and prepare themselves for the Christmas break, I decided to look back at the predictions I made at the beginning of January 2009. As you can see from the table below, it looks like the Fidessa Fragmentation Index is a pretty good predictor of trends. For the FTSE 100 we predicted an FF...

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

The Finextra FinTech 2010 predictions ...honest!

Finextra is soon to head off in our separate directions for our Christmas break. So I thought I would scribble down some New Year predictions. Fed up with Sibos prices, a 'major international bank' will set up a snack booth outside one of Amsterdam's various cafes - attendees claim bratwurst at the show was the best ever and would gladly pay twice...

Whatever...

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Cheques are on the way out - so what's the alternative?

Today the Payments Council has announced the target deadline of October 2018 for the end of cheques as a form of payment in the UK. For banks, this is welcome news. Cheques are one of the most expensive forms of payment transaction costing banks around £1 per transaction to process. However, if the cheque is to disappear altogether, the Council re...

/payments Information Security

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Niche market for cheques.

So ... Can I see in the future, a time when RyanAir might provide free booking services for people who chose to pay by cheque?

/payments

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Facebook Newest Portal for Social Media Identity Theft

Imagine trying to log into your online accounts one after the other and being locked out. At first you think the site you are visiting screwed up but then it keeps happening over and over again no matter where you go. Then you start receiving messages from friends and family asking you why you are behaving so freakishly online. This is what happe...

/security /regulation

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Child Identity Theft Protection

In a blog I guest contribute to called “NextAdvisor” they offer the following advice on child identity theft protection: The following post in our Reader Question series is an actual user submitted question. “Q: I found out that someone used my grandson’s Social Security number to get phone service. How can I stop this? He’s only 11 years old. A: ...

/security /regulation

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SEPA Direct Debits - the best kept secret in payments

It's been over a month now since the SEPA Direct Debits (SDD) scheme was launched - hurrah! But has anyone noticed? Within our tight knit payments community we have been shouting about the benefits of SDDs such as receiving payments quicker and cheaper than before, making corporates' processes more standardised across Europe and reducing operation...

Dirk Kinvig

Dirk Kinvig Web Services Manager at Finextra

What are you thinking?

We've unleashed another exciting update to the Community Section of Finextra. Call me Ebeneezer, if you will, but just because Christmas is around the corner, I don't think it's time yet to allow the Finextra web team to slacken off. When you go to your private Member Profile section (click on your name in the Community tab), you will now see a n...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Too civil civil servants

The public sector is increasingly outsourcing service production - and thus giving more space for the sector's management to do much more important work - policy making, driving change, creating rulebooks and so forth. This is for sure a much needed shift in attention and should be welcomed also by business - especially as we all experience the sam...

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