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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Quote of the Year Nomination

While "Don't Tase me, Bro" has been reported as Quote of the Year in the mainstream press, we have some notable quotes in our little world as well. Today in a Bloomberg article Morgan Stanley CFO Colm Kelleher commenting on his bank's almost £10 billion dollar loss said this: `If you were to normalize our business and take out this $9.4 ...

Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Wanted - Flexible Online E Currency

As we approach the festive season, all of us get into human kind's greatest obsession - shopping! Over the past decade, online shopping has come to generate big bucks for businesses. So much so, that 'clicks' are beating 'bricks' by a wide margin in many countries. While I browse through the various online shopping malls - a thought often hits me...

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Online users, Careful during holiday times

Holiday season is on. And Online users whether using Internet Banking or e-shopping or general net users, just a reminder even assuming most of you already know it. Careful with mails, greetings or seasons blessing esp from unknown source (even if it refers Santa)Be careful for any .exe file downloads Someone may using keystoke logging software a...

/security Online Banking

Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

The 2007 Finextra Awards

So, it’s late December. The post Christmas party hangovers are becoming increasingly frequent, you’re just about done with the shopping, and the urge to work is waning. In short, it’s a great time of year to announce the inaugural Finextra Awards. Thankfully there was no shortage of topics to base the awards on – with a wide range of good, bad and ...

/retail /wholesale Trends in Financial Services

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Barclays faces protest over clunky PINSentry authentication

Rumblings of discontent among Barclay’s customers over the bank’s new PINSentry chip and PIN authentication device for online banking. The device, provided by Dutch vendor Gemalto is used together with the customer's normal debit card and PIN, to authenticate the cardholder’s identity at log in and for making certain payments. PINSentry may have...

/security

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Convergence? what convergence?

Is it me or does there seem to be a lack of convergence on the subject of security in internet banking these days? From a user perspective I have accounts with ING, Nationwide and Barclays to name but three. I also work with many banks in their back offices trying to make operations both more secure and more efficient (tough job to do both at on...

/security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

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Internet Banking - Scene of last decade and some learnings

In the days of virtualization where working mothers and traveling sales-team prefer to use flexi-time and remote jobs profile; Internet is being adopted as a parallel medium of communication, transaction, and social networking. Internet banking is fast gaining momentum across the globe for its convenience and ease of conducting transactions at a

/security Online Banking

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Turquoise recruitment drive

After a stuttering start, it looks like Turquoise is getting its house in order in preparation for a busy New Year. The bank-backed rival to the London Stock Exchange has been variously dubbed Project Tortoise and Project Red Face by City wags for its signal failure to deliver a coherent business plan as the MiFID deadline loomed and its subsequen...

/wholesale Finexpo

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Regulators about to rule on interchange -watch this closely

Here's something that could have a big impact on how payment schemes are going to compete in the future. European regulators are expected tomorrow to force MasterCard to cut interchange fees, but the devil’s in the details - everyone will be watching to see what the ruling actually says. Here's what I'll be looking for tomorrow. Check out the full...

/payments SEPA and European Payments

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Phishing losses story lacks credibility

A survey of more than 4500 online US adults results in oh so many details about monetary losses because of phishing. How is it possible to be so conclusive? Details on the methodologies employed in conducting the survey may or may not be bolstering. I bet on may not. What is an online US adult? Whatever the definition, does it change over time...

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