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As if security managers at banks and other financial institutions don’t have enough to worry about, a recent article has pointed to another threat that must be dealt with—hackers remotely taking cont...
Reflecting upon a blog I posted 18 months or so ago, Denial of Business Attacks: A big headache coming your way? I was thinking about the forthcoming TV series of the hugely popular talent show the &...
I’ve spent the better part of the last three months meeting and talking to some of the best and brightest bankers in Australia, Asia, UK and the USA and what I’ve learned is fairly predictable, and ju...
A friend recently asked his financial adviser if he would help with investing in some fine wine, to which the financial adviser simply laughed. He then asked for advice on buying some Gold bullion to ...
On 7 June 2010, the newly-established SEPA Council met for the first time, and it is reported that migration end dates were discussed. No further news on that particular point has yet emerged. We all ...
It was in a meeting the other day that I finally realised that I am getting old. As I made my weary way home, I mused on this sudden insight and found myself reminiscing about the old days, when meet...
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/future-of-vat-automatically-real-time.html We all know that today’s VAT reporting and payment process is mildly speaking cumbersome and expensive for 24 million en...
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-solve-online-card-fraud.html Excellent YouTube presentation by Douwe Lycklama of Innopay.
I met Friday with Mike Hirst, CEO of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, one of the top banks in Australia today. As we discussed the need for community banks to get better at servicing SME business needs mo
Payments systems in financial institutions in APAC have always been thought of as unsophisticated and ‘old-school’. With their reliance of paper and fax-based process it’s easy to see why. This is cha...
Please, may I get an answer to following 2015 hypothetical scheme: In the case ECB' s Board will announce the negative discount rate ( official rate under ZERO level) as a long-term lasting new ...
It is not always easy to get a clear understanding of what’s going on when confronted by large amounts of data. The usual solution to this is to step back in order to get some perspective and understa...