Latest Danske Bank News: Finextra Research

Nordea ditches Swipp m-payments for Danske Bank's MobilePay

Nordea is abandoning Swipp, the Danish mobile payments JV it runs with local banks, and hitching its wagon to rival Danske Bank's MobilePay service.

13 October 2016

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Hacker slams Danske Bank for alleged security failure

Denmark's Danske Bank has been named and shamed by a white hat hacker for allegedly leaking confidential customer data in the form of session cookies on its public website.

07 October 2015

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Danske Bank integrates PowaTag into MobilePay

Denmark's Danske Bank is boosting its popular MobilePay app by integrating technology from m-commerce vendor Powa which will give customers more global buying options.

26 May 2015

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UK banks gear up for launch of Paym P2P mobile payments service

The person-to-person mobile payments service being prepped by Britain's banks for a launch later this year has been christened Paym.

10 March 2014

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UK banks get behind m-payments service ahead of 2014 launch

The UK banking sector is gearing up for the introduction of an industry-wide mobile payments service next spring, with eight major institutions committed to the launch.

15 January 2013

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UK's Faster Payments service goes live

The UK's faster payments service, designed to provide customers with near real-time transfer of phone, Internet and standing order payment instructions - has finally gone live.

27 May 2008

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Danske glitch wipes out Northern Bank, National Irish and Sampo ATMs

Danske Bank says a glitch with its IBM-managed payments network resulted in customers of its subsidiaries in three countries being unable to use their cards to withdraw money from cash machines.

10 April 2008

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EDB buys Swedish card processor Cekab

Nordic IT services group EDB Business Partner has signed an agreement to acquire Centralen för Elektroniska Korttransaktioner (Cekab) - a Swedish card processing company established by Swedbank, Nordea, Svenska Handelsbanken and Danske Bank - for a total of Skr257 million.

23 February 2007

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Fokus Bank launches integrated Web banking, payroll and accounting system for SMEs

Norway's Fokus Bank has teamed with CRM vendor 24SevenOffice to develop a Web banking system that includes CRM, payroll and accounting applications and can serve as the back-office administrative hub for businesses.

06 September 2006

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Danske Bank joins Bacs

Danish Financial services group Danske Bank has become the first non-UK bank member of Bacs Payment Schemes, Britain's automated payments industry body.

13 March 2006

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Danske Bank sells DMdata stake to IBM; outsources IT operations

Danish Financial services group Danske Bank is selling its 45% stake in DMdata to IBM and will outsource more of its IT operations to the technology services firm as part of the deal.

17 August 2004

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Anatomy of a systems failure: Danske Bank turns spotlight on DB2

Danske Bank has issued a statement outlining how a series of never-before-identified errors in IBM's DB2 software caused a week-long disruption to payments systems and the trading and settlement of currencies and securities for customers.

03 April 2003

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