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Taking my daily dose of FT online, I was struck by the article entitled Count us in, maths experts tell regulator which, in summary, seems to boil down to the agreement by both Lord Turner and financial mathematicians (aka "quants") that maths is a very powerful tool if used properly by people who understand the business they are modell...
10 June 2009 /regulation /wholesale Banking Architecture
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Many cities across the world are switching over to Pay by Phone Cashless Payment at Car Parks. The market leader is Verrus (www.verrus.com) who has contracts in over 100 cities across UK & North America, including Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Westminster, York, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, Seattle, Vancouver. In order to pay you have to ...
09 June 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...
Not a one finance professional has even smiled on this comparison. Odd, because these verbs are almost synonyms meaning similar activity - cleaning the cowshed after risks have realised and diseased production stock removed. So please my reader do not mind and take a step back. In both Chinese milk crisis and financial crisis the methodology of sup...
08 June 2009 /security /regulation
I must admit to sometimes getting a little overwhelmed at all the effort it takes to live an eco-friendly life. It's not that I'm not making an effort. I recycle at home and at work. I turn off unnecessary lights, replace burned out incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl) ones , use a re-usable cloth bag for shopping, think...
08 June 2009 /regulation /wholesale Going green
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The scourge of identity theft knows no boundaries. It can happen to anyone: rich, poor, good credit, bad credit. Victims include children, the elderly, celebrities and politicians, even the dead. Identity theft may include new account fraud, account takeover, criminal identity theft, business identity theft and medical identity theft. Most of thes...
06 June 2009 /security /regulation
Interested in the Finextra community thoughts on Pandemic planning frameworks and dealing with the H1N1 flu (Swine flu) in other countries. In Australia, the regulator has released guideline on planning for pandemics that includes the potential for 25-50% of staff working from home for 6 months - how many systems can last that long untended locally...
02 June 2009 /security /regulation
Barack Obama announced last week that there will be a new Cybercrime Czar in the US reporting directly to the president. We wonder what, if any good that will do. Can he/she be more than a figurehead when the crimes they want to stop originate in the Ukraine or Bulgaria or Indonesia? Will they attempt to burden us with more ineffective regulation?...
01 June 2009 /security /regulation Information Security
Merrick Bank has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Savvis, accusing the vendor of erroneously telling it that CardSystems Solutions complied with Visa and MasterCard security regulations. However, do they have a case? The PCI Data Security Standard Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) is a validation tool intended to assist merchants a...
27 May 2009 /regulation Whatever...
Recently, a targeted crime spree hit Staten Island with 250 Sovereign Bank customers caught up in a never-ending technological arms race between criminals and the rest of us. This time it wasn’t the latest hacker sitting at a far away computer in the middle of the night. Rather it was a small gang that used skimming technology and video cameras...
27 May 2009 /security /regulation Information Security
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
There has been no end of stories over recent years about the ability of companies and organisations to maintain their data security. Bad news always travels faster than good and we will only ever know about the instances where data security is breached rather than the majority of occasions when data is secure but the quest to achieve total securit...
26 May 2009 /regulation /retail Data Management 101
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