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That OnePulse card will never catch on. I mean - look at it - it's way too big.
10 September 2007
I applaud HSBC and Abbey National for not being lemmings on the European push to chip and pin for online banking. They are considering alternative methods for two factor authentication, that are both less intrusive for customers, and potentially more effective. Finextra: HSBC investigates 'out of band' authentication for Web users HSBC and Abb...
08 September 2007 Trends in Financial Services
This week Singapore Airlines (SIA) bought a ~16% stake in China Eastern, a domestic Chinese airline, which is in the worst financial condition of the big three Chinese carriers. This by itself is groundbreaking news as it’s the first foreign investment in a domestic Chinese airline, but when you consider the recent takeover bid for Qantas in Austr...
07 September 2007 Asia Financial Services
There is much debate on the value of customer loyalty metrics. This post from my other blog, has attracted some debate, so thought I would open it here to this audience. The subject of customer loyalty measurement is a controversial, and deep topic for bankers. I have no particular axe to grind here on the debate, and am just curious which measur...
07 September 2007 /retail
Despite the repeated assurances by the US Federal Reserve, it seems that the global financial communities are not assured that the credit squeeze has been contained or that it is a localized problem. Today, Bank of England and European Central Bank added to these concerns by offering to inject more liquidity in the system - a move coinciding with ...
06 September 2007
A friend of mine works in television as a director - which seems interesting to me - but he's recently developed an interest in web development - which seems odd to me. He's also just formed a new band so he decided to set up an e-commerce site to sell CDs. By his own admission he is a complete beginner to the field, although the end result look...
Recently I answered a question on LinkedIn regarding the main drivers of growth in the operating models of financial services. Briefly, the question related to whether there are alternate models for managing the operations of financial services that go beyond the pursuit of efficiency, productivity, etc. I had then responded that the boutique ban...
05 September 2007 Trends in Financial Services
China, well known for its capital controls, made some steps towards loosening those controls for individual investors last month with the announcement that individual mainland Chinese investors would be able to invest in the HK stock market although now it appears the implementation will be delayed slightly according to an announcement by the Bank...
04 September 2007
Fyodor, the author of the popular Nmap FOSS for network exploration or security auditing, has released the list of the top 100 network security tools (excluding Nmap). He has compiled the list based on the responses from 3,243 people in the Nmap mailing list. Relating to my post on the malware attack on BoI, I think that the sysadmins of the bank...
04 September 2007 /security Information Security
Story URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/01/bank_of_india_website_takeover/ The recent, crippling, malware attack on the website of Bank of India (http://www.bankofindia.com) is a stark reminder of how far away are the banks from offering secure net banking facilities. Obviously, BoI is not the only bank to suffer from a security lapse; mo...
03 September 2007 Information Security
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