Online Banking

This community is for discussion of developments in the e-banking world, including mobile banking. This can include all the functional, business, technical, marketing, web site design, security and other related topics of Internet Banking segment, including public websites of the banks and financial institutions across the globe.

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The curious case of Online Banking

Are mobile apps making online banking obsolete? Statistics paint a different narrative. Today, we live in an extremely connected-world; one in which smartphones are near-ubiquitous, and access-to-internet is considered an essential-service. Almost all digitally-active individuals of the banking-population seem to own and use a smartphone. So, in t

16 October 2019

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

Could banks become redundant in the future?

After so much development in the Fintech space due to the progression of “private banks” all over the digital world, many entrepreneurs have started to base their Fintech startups on the premise that banks will soon stop to exist in our lives. Well, considering the fact that most of the world’s population is still heavily involved in banking and is...

16 October 2019 /inclusion

Andrew Stevens Global banking and financial services specialist at Quadient

Extinction, or revolution: has the time come for banks to move away from dedicated apps?

Mobile banking applications have become a common resource for customers over the past decade, from checking balances to transferring money between accounts and setting up new payments. The boom in digital-first challenger banks such as Monzo has seen high-street banks roll out new app features to compete and keep pace with customer trends. With f...

15 August 2019

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Should security be left to the customer?

At the beginning of every year for the last decade or so, a list of the most used passwords is released. At the top of this list are passwords like “123456” and “12345678”. The biggest thing I’ve taken away from this, is that the average person is not well versed enough in cyber security to be responsible for choosing their own password. This migh...

04 April 2019 /security

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Not All 2FA Are Made Equal

As we start to see account hacking and data leakage appear more and more in the media, the rise and need for two Factor Authentication, or 2FA, is inevitable if businesses want to retain their customers’ trust. 2FA only denotes the number of factors required to confirm an identity. Often the first factor is a classic password; the type we forget, s...

12 February 2019 /security

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Deeper into Digital Identity - Ownership and Control

Another dive into digital identity, following on from two other pieces that aimed to define digital identity itself, and shed light on the importance surrounding the enrolment process. What I want to cover in this short article is the necessity for the individual attached to the digital identity to be the one in control, and to have physical owner...

12 February 2019 /security /retail

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Deeper into Digital Identity - Enrolment

In my last article I tried to quickly define “digital identity” and point out important aspects to consider when implementing a national digital identity. I also looked to highlight just a few of the benefits that can be drawn from such a platform. One short article couldn’t possibly do this topic justice, so with this piece, I wanted to dig a bit...

12 February 2019 /security /retail

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What we mean by Digital Identity

There are two different ways to look at an individual’s digital identity. One way would be to consider the online personas we create on social media; often comparable to the real-world characters that we play, compiled of our actions, relationships, possessions, accomplishments, etc. The other kind of digital identities we create are used for onli...

12 February 2019 /security

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Why we’re nowhere near delivering on PSD2’s bold ambition

One year on, the directive is yet to deliver on its promise and we’re nowhere near the vision that consumers were promised. PSD2 was the start of a seismic shift in the financial world. The legislation was greeted with derision by some and delight by others, but whatever your opinion, one thing was clear: the ambition was to deliver better servi

24 January 2019 /retail

Jason Bell Regional Sales Director, FS&I at ServiceNow

Robust cyber security lies in the cloud

Is the entire financial services sector under attack? Given the proliferation of news stories around cyber attacks on financial institutions, it's sometimes easy to believe so. For the criminal fraternity it's an obvious target. This is where the money is. For ill-intentioned nation states it's also a prime target. This is where the basis of the e...

01 November 2018 /security