Microsoft Financial Services

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Period: 21 Dec 2006 - 19 Sep 2024

Barclays takes the crown at Digital Wallet Foundry

A seven man team from Barclays Bank, using tools from FreedomPay and their own Pingit mobile payments app, emerged with top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon in London.

Let the digital wallet hack-a-thon commence

Colin Kerr, industry solutions director, worldwide financial services at Microsoft examines how mobile and social are influencing payments.

Microsoft to host digital wallet developer event

Microsoft is looking to tap into the burgeoning mobile wallet arena by hosting three week-long developer and designer events at its ultra-hip Modern Jago facility in London's Shoreditch.

Chinese crooks pre-install malware on PCs

Criminals in China have been infiltrating supply chains and adding counterfeit software embedded with malware to computers, according to Microsoft.

SinoPac goes live with Temenos T24

Bank SinoPac has gone live with the Temenos T24 core system across its Singapore branch network, with overseas locations to follow.

Telefónica strikes direct-to-bill deals with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and RIM

Telefónica has struck global direct-to-bill deals with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Research In Motion, enabling users to pay for content through their mobile phone bills.

Microsoft unveils mobile wallet with SIM-based NFC

Tech giant Microsoft has made its mobile money move, adding a digital wallet and SIM-based NFC to its latest operating system, Windows Phone 8.

Microsoft takes down Zeus botnets

Microsoft, working with financial services organisations and US Marshals, raided two sites on Friday, seizing command and control servers running Zeus botnets used to steal online banking details.

Microsoft launches Kinect for Windows; Amex on board

Microsoft has shipped Kinect for Windows, widening the appeal of its motion sensor technology beyond gamers to big business, with American Express among the firms already developing applications.

Expense management goes 'Minority Report' with Kinect integration

BI consultancy Project Brokers has launched an expense management application with a gimmicky twist - it can be accessed via the Xbox Kinect games console.

Microsoft Kinect brings motion-sensing tech to the banking interface

Lithuanian company Etronika has demonstrated a beta version of an application that uses Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor technology as an interface to on-screen consumer banking applications.

Microsoft presses RBA on virtual currencies

Microsoft is pressing the Reserve Bank of Australia to consider adjustments to the domestic payments markets to help consumers conduct transactions in virtual currencies, such as Facebook Credits and Microsoft Points.