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Bo Harald

Right direction in Belgium

This rapid action - now in Belgium is a very welcome step in the right direction. Practioners know that structured e-invoicing is so much more secure, that there are no needs to impose mandatory digi...

19 Nov 2009
Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley

The PSD has arrived; is it a threat or an opportunity?

Senior payments professionals from RBS, HSBC, BNYMellon and JPMorgan join with industry analysts to debate the future of banking and payments in the European union, in our upcoming webcast hosted by F...

19 Nov 2009
Elizabeth Lumley

The future of financial networks. Transatlantic, webcast

Finextra and BT are joined by Credit Suisse, HSBC, Knight Equity Markets, Cisco Systems and the Tabb Group for a one hour, transatlantic discussion looking at the future of financial networls. The liv...

19 Nov 2009
A Finextra Member

Revenge of the hedge trimmers

Many companies rely heavily on hedging – which may be defined as the process of using financial instruments to reduce or eliminate the risks resulting from fluctuations in the market price of credit, ...

19 Nov 2009
A Finextra Member

MiFID hits Main Street

There was an interesting article in the FT yesterday about how IG Index (the spread betting company) will now be connecting to Chi-X and, I assume, other MTFs too. The story reminded me of how MiFID...

18 Nov 2009
Uri Rivner

Agents of Evil

Air Parcel Express is a boutique international shipping company based in Sweden. They offer a wide choice of logistic services such as mail forwarding and global distribution, creatively supporting th...

18 Nov 2009
Online Banking
A Finextra Member

Lack of Governance in UK Financial Services sector

This is example is indicative of the state of financial services governance in the UK: In 2000, Egg (internet-based credit card company), suffered a major data loss and could only recover account re...

18 Nov 2009
Robert Siciliano

I Bought an ATM off Craigslist w 1000 CC-Debits No. on it

After the Vegas DEFCON ATM debacle where hackers hacked hackers by setting up a fake ATM in front of the facilities security office, I needed to see how stupid easy it was to buy and ATM and just set ...

18 Nov 2009
A Finextra Member

Database security - and how not to do it!!!

Database security & inegrity is an issue that should be taken very seriously by an organisation. I'm going to be, hopefully, brief and non-techy..... SQL injection hacks are common knowledge and ...

17 Nov 2009
A Finextra Member

The gender pay gap again

And so another story on the gender pay gap. The good news? The gender pay gap has narrowed over the past year and is apparently at an all time low. The bad news? It has only dropped by 1%. Let’s look...

17 Nov 2009
Women in Technology
A Finextra Member

Identity Fraud - consumer apathy or lack of education?

The latest monthly statistics show the number of new identity fraud cases reported to CPP stands at its highest level since we started selling the insurance product back in November 2004. In October, ...

17 Nov 2009
Online Banking
George Ravich

Digging for Gold - Winning in Transaction Banking

At the recent NEACH Payments Insights conference it was interesting to find an audience gripped by two strong emotions – excitement and fear. The excitement was about new opportunities in transaction ...

16 Nov 2009
Transaction Banking

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