Halifax Group

80 results about this entity

Period: 12 Aug 2005 - 13 Sep 2024

PayPal UK's favourite financial Web site

PayPal has seen the number of visitors to its UK Web site rise by 50% over the last 12 months, strengthening its position as the country's most popular financial portal.

Firefox users targeted by bank password stealing Trojan

A Trojan masquerading as a Mozilla Firefox plugin to steal online bank passwords has been found by Romanian security firm BitDefender.

RBS is top UK phishing target

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is the financial institution most targeted by phishing fraudsters, according to anti-spam outfit Clearmymail which is reporting a quadrupling in the number of spam attacks aimed at UK Internet users.

Halifax facing chip and PIN fraud lawsuit

UK high street bank Halifax is facing a lawsuit brought by a customer who claims that fraudsters cloned his chip-based card and withdrew £2100 from his account at ATMs.

Halifax carbon labels Web account

UK high street bank Halifax has become the first financial institution in Europe to carbon label one of its products.

Halifax begins contactless card roll out

UK high street bank Halifax has begun issuing contactless debit cards featuring Visa payWave technology to around 25,000 customers in London.

Standard Life customer data lost in transit

A CD containing confidential data for around 15,000 Standard Life customers has gone missing while in transit from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to the insurer's headquarters in Edinburgh.

Halifax looks to grow online sales with Omniture TouchClarity

The UK's Halifax bank is to introduce 'behavioural targeting' technology from US firm Omniture in an effort to increase sales and conversion rates for online products and marketing campaigns.

Halifax rolls out multi-currency ATMs

UK bank Halifax has begun rolling out multi-currency ATMs that dispense euro and US dollar bank notes in addition to sterling.

HSBC investigates 'out of band' authentication for Web users

HSBC is investigating 'out of band' authentication security for online banking - in which unique ID log-in codes are communicated by telephone - as a possible alternative to the two factor card reader programme backed by UK payments association Apacs.

IT upgrade knocks out IF Web service

Customers of UK direct bank Intelligent Finance (IF) were unable to access accounts on Sunday and Monday after hardware installed to increase capacity caused an outage.

Bank of Scotland customer data lost in the post

Bank of Scotland (BoS) - part of the UK's Hbos banking group - is notifying more than 60,000 mortgage customers that a computer disc containing their personal information has been lost in the postal system.