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With the increasing popularity of digital currencies, security has become a primary concern for users who want to keep their crypto safe. Wallet integration plays a critical role in ensuring that transactions are secure and protected. In light of recent events, such as the Atomic Wallet data breach, this article aims to discuss the importance of ...
07 June 2023 /security /crypto Personal Finance
The increasing availability of data in the finance industry provides firms with the opportunity to gain deeper insights into market trends, customer behaviour, and exposure to risk. With the help of advanced analytics and machine learning, finance firms can use this data to improve their decision-making processes, increase efficiency, and ultimate...
24 May 2023 /security /crime Banking Regulations
Every digital financial market is unique. In one and the same macro-region you will find a lot of peculiarities related to different countries. This is what I see distinctly in APAC region. The last couple of years I used to spend at least 1/3 of the year in Indonesia, so I found some very typical features here. Being here I feel very safe in my
23 May 2023 /security /identity Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp
‘Mainframe is dead!’ has long been a cry within the IT industry but the reality is, many organisations still rely heavily upon mainframes with data sitting on them around the 12EB (yes, exabyte) mark and growing at approximately 10-20% per year. This is especially true in financial services where still a lot of the ‘crown jewels’ are kept. Mainfram...
22 May 2023 /security /crime Banking Architecture
Davoud Pourhossein Director of Client Architecture at Unisys
Financial institutions are often top of the list of organisations that have been slower to embrace digital transformation. Indeed, in a recent survey of financial services (FS) companies, half listed their organisations as only a ‘beginner’ or ‘implementer’ when it came to using digital services – with only a fifth (21%) believing that their inst...
19 May 2023 /security Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Michael Berman CEO at Ncontracts
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, financial institutions face an ongoing battle to protect their systems and data. That battle extends beyond their own systems and data to those of their critical third-party vendors. Not only must they protect their own systems from cyberattacks, they must also ensure that the third-party vendors...
18 May 2023 /security /crime Information Security
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
The COVID pandemic was perhaps the worst global crisis in a generation. Fortunately banks and fintechs with the right technologies and strategies not only weathered the storm, but came out on top. As we navigate this period of economic uncertainty, this blog considers how digital technologies and new working methods can drive change and continual ...
16 May 2023 /security /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Aileen Allkins Chief Revenue Officer at YNV Tech Talent
In 2015, a senior executive at Mattel received an email from the company’s newly appointed CEO. The note requested the processing of an overdue payment to a familiar manufacturer. In acting on the email, the executive set-in motion a $3 million mistake. Cyber attacks of this kind are known as ‘whaling’ emails, which rather than the ‘copy-paste’ met...
04 May 2023 /security /people Information Security
Aare Reintam Chief Operating Officer at CybExer Technologies
Those of us who work in the cyber security industry have been talking about Zero Trust for more than a decade now. During that time, it’s fair to say that the financial services industry has become relatively good at verifying the identity of actors within and outside its dedicated networks. Unfortunately though, while defining best practices for ...
03 May 2023 /security Information Security
Mahesh Pawal Portfolio Product Manager, Digital Transformation at Fiserv
94% of the passwords used by 5.2 billion internet users scored less than 65 on Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) security scale. I am pretty much sure that you are one of them. CIS suggests that anything less than 80, is considered an easy target for hackers, given the advanced computing power available today. To determine if your password is ha...
02 May 2023 /security /payments Digital Banking Trends
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