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1713 Results from /retail, 2001

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Apacs issues account aggregation guidelines

The Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) has published voluntary guidelines for the aggregation of financial data by UK financial institutions in the wake of a series of spats between banks over consumer security issues.

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FSA sets out e-money guidelines

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is proposing a new regulatory regime for e-money issuers, based on requirements by the European Union which are to be incorporated into UK law by 27 April 2002.

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Skandia makes £210 million bid for Lynx

Skandia is in talks to acquire Lynx Group plc, and its subsidiary Bankhall - the UK's largest provider of support services to independent financial advisors (IFA).

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Bendigo Bank takes equity stake in Inch finance portal

Australia's Bendigo Bank is to provide customers with access to range of third party products, following its acquisition of a 30 per cent stake in finanical portal operator Inch Corp.

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UK banks lag behind for online customer service

The telephone is still the most efficient way of contacting financial services organisations, according to a new study conducted by ICM Research, on behalf of CRM vendor Onyx Software.

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Redsafe fixes launch date for online portal

Switzerland's Redsafe Bank is to go live with its integrated financial portal on 14 January, 2002.

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Czech bank buys Vasco Digipass remote authentication solution

Ceska sporitelna, the largest bank in the Czech Republic, has purchased 50,000 units of Vasco's Digipass 700 product to provide customers with secure remote Internet access to their financial accounts.

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HBOS integrates ATM network with NCR

HBOS, the financial services group formed by the merger of the Halifax and Bank of Scotland, has chosen NCR's Aptra Edge self-service software to run its estate of ATMs.

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US banks select Saba for e-learning

Scotiabank and Fifth Third Bank have chosen technology from Saba to provide employees with online access to a range of educational learning resources.

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Barclays signs £57 million outsourcing deal with Getronics

Barclays Bank has signed a three-year multi-million pound renewal contract with Getronics covering maintenance and installation services of its branch and office IT infrastructure.

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HBOS undercuts Web bottlenecks with Interwoven

HBOS banking group has chosen Interwoven's content infrastructure technology as the content management backbone for its Web and interactive TV-based customer services, including halifax.co.uk, and Halifax Online.

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NCR Web-enables FleetBoston ATM network

FleetBoston Financial is to implement technology from NCR Corporation for the launch of a new Web-based automated teller machine network in early 2002.