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It's been interesting to see trends emerge for the Finextra apps that we have on the market, which in turn gives us a not-very-scientific insight into the Finextra Readership. Since we launched the Android app, it has been downloaded a total of 137 times. Overall, it is more popular than the iPhone App which has had 126 downloads - but it's only...
01 March 2012
Almost 18 Months after the takeover from Odyssey Financial Technologies, Temenos announced to be considering “strategic combination with Misys plc to be effected by way of an all share merger”. Probably for compliance sake, since both companies are listed, the Misys press release cautiously provide further information “Discussions are continuing a...
04 February 2012 /wholesale
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Despite all the bleating about PCI over the years, I found it to be too weak. With all the focus on Cardholder Data - as being that on the Mag Stripe - namely Cardnumber, Cardholder Name, Expiry Date and Security Code - I found many Merchants & Service Providers treated it as a 'max' rather than 'min' level of security. I performed due diligenc...
13 January 2012 /payments
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Do you facilitate disruptive environments in order to engage GenY, digital natives? Are you involved in the gamification of the customer experience? Do work for a 'social' business? Will banking as we know it be disrupted by dramatic consumer behaviour shifts? Can anyone tell me what any of the above actually means? Really? In plain, simple languag...
02 December 2011 /retail
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Got a message that I have now written 228 blogs - with 532.835 page views. On average 2.336 each - highest being 8.305 and lowest 897. 166 posts (73% of all) have been viewed over 2.000 and 38 over 3.000. What is interesting is that old posts are still being red on a rather steady pace - so that 25% in the 2.000+ cathegory were written in 200...
21 November 2011
Hackers claimed yesterday that they had hacked NATO primary servers including nato.int. Read, this is not the library where 11,000 often amateurish passwords were used by Military, NSA and other personnel accessing the library. In that case the library was maintained by a third party. In the most recent intrusion hackers have taken over the nato.i...
06 July 2011 /security
It appears that someone took the side of the underdog when NATO somewhat foolishly chose poor words in a report where 'infiltration & persecution' were the recipe for hurt feelings. Besides the fact that 'persecution' is specifically prohibited by the UN, NATO, in a glaring show of their Freudian slip chose the wrong words, which resulted in t...
28 June 2011 /security /regulation
As reported, this greatly surprises me - apparently placing the Credit Card number within the URL, and thus by changing the URL exposes other Credit Card details within having to go through the Access Validation routine. On the one hand you'd assume the system designers didn't 'actually' specify it to be this way, but that the programmer didn't ask...
16 June 2011 /security
I have been known to mention it. Now it seems pretty hard to refute. Even the CIA can't keep their website up. After Congress, hacktavists have embarrassed the public face of the CIA. See the SMH for a frilly version
Favourite quote of the week from the internet "LulzSec is running around pummelling some of the world’s most powerful organisations into the ground… for laughs! For lulz! For shits and giggles! Surely that tells you what you need to know about computer security: there isn’t any." ipso facto With a change of tactics and broadening of the m...
11 June 2011 /security /regulation
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