77 Results from 2017, /security
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Capital market industry is facing challenges across revenue growth, capital charges and high structural costs. Investment banking revenue fell 4% led by 8% decline in Fixed income, 5% drop in advisory and underwriting revenues. While growth is hard to come by, the problem is further magnified by deterioration of cost-income-ratio due to higher com...
04 February 2017 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Michael Wright ex-CEO, NED at Tilte, Taxd, Welleasy
John Safa's opinion piece entitled 'Banks are struggling with email' presented a single lens to the topic. Here is an alternative viewpoint. Banks are not 'struggling' with email, indeed they are increasingly embracing the reach and ubiquity of email as a core communication tool for the always-on world. It is almost impossible to engage with elect...
02 February 2017 /security
Retired Member
The world of mobile payments is not unlike the political systems we see in many countries around the world. Three or more groups arguing; sometimes working together and at other times pulling in totally different directions. Multiple players, differing priorities Consumers typically have strong relationships with their bank, their carrier and poss...
31 January 2017 /security /payments
In an age when data privacy scare stories hit the headlines on almost a daily basis, it is perhaps surprising that there is a need to raise awareness of the issue. But, alas, the 28th January marks Data Privacy Day and experts are quick to share their tips and advice. A day that was initially set up back in 2007 and is held every year to make peop...
27 January 2017 /security
Banks are struggling with email. It’s no longer an immediate form of communication, for most of us it’s a massive headache, and most importantly it’s risky. It’s too easy to send something from the wrong email address, or to the wrong person. Content can be leaked, or end up in the public domain. (Just ask Hilary Clinton, Michael Gove, or the Krem...
20 January 2017 /security /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Fake news is a problem that is taking the internet by storm, and it ran rampant during the 2016 Presidential Election. In fact, many believe that fake news stories had a strong impact on the outcome of the election. In a survey following the election by the Pew Research Center, a whopping 64 percent of polled Americans said that fake news has give...
17 January 2017 /security
As we know from the PPI scandal, financial agreements can be far from air tight when it comes to being legally enforceable. Even when PPI was correctly contracted, many banks were unable to prove that the customer had seen the relevant terms or even understood them. Once one customer had successfully challenged PPI, a precedent was set for the ban...
17 January 2017 /security /payments
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