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The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published guidelines for retailers on securing wireless networks.
20 July 2009
The introduction of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has helped to significantly reduce the cost of share trading by transaction in the last couple of years. However, in terms of value of trading, costs have actually increased in five major centres, according to a study commissioned by the EC.
17 July 2009
More than two million US households have adopted online banking and bill payment during the last year, meaning the services are now used in over three quarters of homes with Internet access, according to a Fiserv-sponsored survey.
15 July 2009
Over half of financial institutions think they would have been better prepared for the credit crisis had they been able to monitor their exposures and concentration levels in real-time, and many are now belatedly investing in technology to help them do this, according to a survey from Aleri.
14 July 2009
The recession has spurred Wall street firms to investigate the use of new technology, particularly cloud computing, in a bid to overcome budgetary restrictions and skills shortages, according to a survey from IBM.
24 June 2009
Online spending in the UK is set to more than double, to £21.3 billion, by the end of 2011 as Brits turn to the Internet for deals during the recession, according to a report commissioned by PayPal.
The number of US households paying bills online will grow from 48 million this year to 63 million by 2014, driven by consolidator sites like Yodlee, according to Forrester Research.
16 June 2009
US financial services firms have lost the battle to protect the personal information of customers and must now assume that all their clients' data has been, or will be, compromised, according to TowerGroup.
Spending on electronic foreign exchange trading technology is set to soar with an "arms race" taking hold as firms look to improve execution speed, according to a survey from CEP vendor StreamBase.
09 June 2009
Pakistan's Allied Bank has signed for risk management technology from SAS to help it meet Basel II regulatory requirements and improve credit ratings.
08 June 2009
The number of people around the world making payments using their mobile phones is set to soar from 43.1 million in 2008 to 73.4 million this year, a 70% rise, according to analyst house Gartner.
28 May 2009
This year will see a breakthrough for mobile banking in the US, as it moves from niche to mainstream, attracting 10 million active users, according to TowerGroup.
26 May 2009
Brits are turning away from credit to debit cards during the recession, according to payments association Apacs.
15 May 2009
Just a third of financial services executives think risk management principles in their business remain sound, with over half conducting or planning a major overhaul of operations, according to a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
06 May 2009
Rapid adoption in the developing world will fuel a boom in mobile payments over the next three years, with global transaction volumes reaching $250 billion in 2012, according to a report from Arthur D Little.
24 April 2009
Equity electronic trading revenues in Asia Pacific are set to see a 17% fall this year, with liquidity sinking during the downturn, according to research from Tabb Group.
23 April 2009
The number of US online banking customers continued to grow at a steady rate throughout 2008 as customers looked to keep a close eye on their finances during the recession, according to research from Web metrics firm comScore.
22 April 2009
Despite the global financial crisis, spending on IT by trading firms will hold steady over the next year, according to a survey from Sybase and Financial Insights.
21 April 2009
Approximately two thirds of people around the world think the global recession has put them at greater risk of identity theft and fraud, according to research from IT vendor Unisys.
20 April 2009
Over 100 million Europeans visited online banking sites in February, a third of the continent's Internet users, according to figures from Web metrics firm comScore.
16 April 2009
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