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Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
I've worked with Epsilon on a few occasions over the years. Hilton Hotels has outsourced all of the processing associated with their HiltonHonors Loyalty program to Epsilon, which includes having your Credit Card details on file to back up any paid Reservation you make. Hilton has contacted me already. IDG News Service has confirmed that the follo...
05 April 2011 /security /regulation Whatever...
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With not long to go until the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the US becomes effective, there still remains great uncertainty as to how regulation of the global OTC derivatives marketplace will finally be implemented. As it stands, there are inconsistent timeframes between the various OTC clearing regulatory framework...
04 April 2011 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
A thief hacked into a woman’s checking account and used her daughter’s name on an electronic check to pay for an online porn subscription. The FBI believes this is a relatively new scam, with reports coming in from across the country. The little girl isn’t a signer on the account, but the bank cashed the check for $29.95 made out to a porn company...
02 April 2011 /security /regulation
Your spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, or partner just headed out to do errands without logging out of his or her email account. The computer’s sitting right there. Would you feel compelled to check it out? According to a recent study, there’s a good chance that you will eavesdrop on your significant other’s cell phone and email conversations. 38% of...
There’s a lot of talk right now about regulation in the OTC derivatives market – and rightly so. Both Dodd-Frank in the US and the proposed European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR) in Europe carry restrictions for those trading these lucrative instruments. Many fund managers are worried about the impact that these restrictions will have o...
31 March 2011 /regulation
Basel III regulations are attempting to bring back some the much-needed checks and balances in the Finance Industry so that we do not see a repeat of 2008 crisis. The set of guidelines is all about re-establishing the rules to ensure a brighter future for the global economy. I’m pro-Basel III. After all, no one wants to experience the 2008 financi...
30 March 2011 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
This mess Joseph Kidd stole Larry Smith’s identity 17 years ago, when Smith was 50 years old. While operating under Smith’s identity, Kidd “spent time in jail, as sent to prison, paroled, obtained welfare and Medicare benefits, and got married.” He did all this using Smith’s name, which means that Smith has had to deal with the imposter’s actions ...
29 March 2011 /security /regulation
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
We're hosting a webcast on Finextra right now looking at everyone's favourite tech trend - cloud computing. However, before any IT head worth his iPad case starts dreaming about the processing power, flexibility and resiliency cloud computing can offer - his or her thoughts inevitability turn to security. In the webcast Adeel Saeed, head of Corpor...
25 March 2011 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
While criminal hackers are cracking databases and stealing millions of electronic records every year, street level identity thieves are a more insidious element of the identity theft epidemic. Thieves of this nature live in your neighborhood. In some parts of the country, local identity thieves tend to be meth heads. Local identity thieves underst...
24 March 2011 /security /regulation
The songstress wasn’t home at the time, but her security team was. Madonna’s London manse worth an estimated $10 million is equipped with security guards, cameras and a home alarm system. And while these are all effective layers of security and are often good deterrents they didn’t stop her stalker from breaking a window and climbing through. Howev...
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