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Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

On fraud prevention banks need to get the balance right

Fraud prevention for financial institutions should be on the top of the agenda for banks and it seems their customers are beginning to think so too. Aite Group surveyed North American financial institutions’ fraud-prevention capabilities and found that customers are choosing those financial institutions with better security. This is a very welcome...

/security /retail Innovation in Financial Services

Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Mobile wallet - who and what will be a winner?

This week, McKinsey and EFMA issued a report on the future of mobile banking in Europe. Is it a surprise? Not exactly. What strikes me about the report is that whilst banks admit that they are not investing enough they do recognise that mobile banking is the way forward and will become the service of choice amongst consumers. What also strikes ...

/security Innovation in Financial Services

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Can social media lead to identity fraud?

There are, apparently, over 500 million Facebook users worldwide and 26 million in the UK, which is a staggering proportion of the global and UK population. Social networks are by their very nature all about sharing; sharing experiences, our latest news, likes and dislikes and sometimes our personal information. Whilst we all like to share – and we...

/security /regulation Online Banking

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The DPA more than an Act, it's a way of life

As you are no doubt aware, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has a number of regulatory actions it can use to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act (DPA), not least of which are its powers to serve monetary penalty notices of up to £500,000 for serious contraventions of the data protection principles. But now there is renewed ac...

/security /retail

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New Requirements for Point to Point Encryption

Well they have arrived. After more than a year of discussion and debate the new requirements for Point to Point Encryption (P2PE) have finally been released by the PCI SSC. These requirements, which are contained in the Point to Point Encryption: Encryption, Decryption and Key Management within Secure Cryptographic Devices (Hardware/Hardware) v1....

/security /payments Information Security

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Miserable public isolation - who is holding back?

Who is holding back - governments or banks? Needed for accelerating citizens' use of government e-services: 1. That the public sector realizes that it is not the only service citizens use - and in fact one of the most infrequently used and then 2. allows and encourages citizens to use the so frequently used familiar and secure e-banking log-in-id a...

/security Innovation in Financial Services

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

What Are Your Digital Assets Worth?

Digital assets include: entertainment files (e.g. music downloads), personal memories (e.g. photographs), personal communications (e.g. emails), personal records (e.g. health, financial, insurance), and career information (e.g. resumes, portfolios, cover letters, contacts), as well as any creative projects or hobbies involving digital files. If yo...

/security /regulation

Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

What's really mind-boggling about the NY card-skimming fraud

News that 111 people were arrested last week in New York in a US$13 million card fraud scam was a useful reminder of just how easy it still is to skim credit card details in the US. NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly was quoted as saying: “Thieves have an amazing knowledge of how to use technology . . . The schemes and the imagination that is develop...

/security Innovation in Financial Services

Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Katie Price's plight highlights fraud dangers

The credit card industry has certainly been in the news this week. First David Cameron nearly suggested that British consumers should pay down their credit cards – before his speech was hastily rewritten against a backdrop of weak retail sales. Then Katie Price aka Jordan – a “professional personality” – was the victim of card fraud, making headlin...

/security Innovation in Financial Services

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Interview with FSA sets record straight on mobile recording

Last week a survey commissioned by Orange Business UK announced that eight out of ten UK medium and large financial firms were unaware of the Financial Service Authority’s (FSA) impending mobile recording regulations. While this conclusion does seem surprising to say the least, there is, nonetheless, still some ‘misunderstanding’ in the market. One...

/security Financial Services Regulation

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