1013 Results from 2011
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Laptops, desktops, Macs, mobiles, and tablets are on many people’s wish lists this holiday season. Once these shiny new devices are connected to the Internet, they will be under siege by malware created by criminals in order to steal identities. According to a recent McAfee survey, 60% of consumers now own at least three digital devices, and 25% ow...
21 December 2011 /security /regulation
Ruaidhri Garvey Solutions Manager at SunGard
Even though the market for matching trade confirmations automatically is a mature one with many tools in place for more than a decade, manual processes still exist. Challenges including working with many counterparties, managing static data, manual matching, chasing and handling of paper confirmations continue to be key themes. Why haven’t these...
20 December 2011 /payments
Retired Member
Consumers love alternatives, especially if the alternative is easy to use and already part of their everyday life. However, most consumers who undertake e-commerce using their mobile device are woefully unaware of the risks. Even when they do, there tends to be an ‘it-will-not-happen-to-me’ response. We are in some ways in the technological dawn ...
20 December 2011 /security /payments Information Security
T H I R T E E N T R U T H S O F P I P E L I N E M A N A G E M E N T Truth #1: The first truth of pipeline management is, as you might expect, that a strong pipeline avoids the quarter end crunch. You need enough qualified opportunities at each stage. One of the important things about a pipeline is its shape. Imagine two funnel shapes, one ...
20 December 2011 /security /payments
The holidays are, for some, an unbearably stressful time of year. The food, the parties, the relatives, and, of course, the gifts, all conspire to make miserable what should be fun and enjoyable. Here at DRS Advisors we are always looking for ways to apply the power of financial engineering to making life more enjoyable, if ruthlessly practical ...
19 December 2011 /payments Finance 2.0
As a result of OTC clearing reform – Dodd-Frank, EMIR – the cost of OTC deals is clearly going to rise, and spreads and volumes are going to fall. Who can make money in a market like that? With the cost of eligible collateral pledged to clearing houses rising – due to the shortage of collateral, cash and non-cash – banks will have no choice but to ...
19 December 2011 /regulation /wholesale
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
In my last blog post I wrote about the problems banks will have with fraud detection when the three day payment process window shortens dramatically from January 2012. Because existing risk-engine strategies do not have the benefit of knowing the real-time status of the card holder, banks struggle to determine which transactions are fraudulent and ...
19 December 2011 /security /payments Innovation in Financial Services
It baffles my brains that a bank would even consider buying 632 branches off Lloyds when they don't even have any investment in mobile banking. They have just made a big investment in the past and Lloyds and Virgin know it. Not only that, but the bank is a social bank. Co-operative mission statement... "We, The Co-operative Bank, will cont...
16 December 2011 /payments /retail
On our way home from a recent family vacation, my two year old grew understandably anxious and uncooperative while waiting for a flight in an airport terminal. So I handed over my iPhone, hoping to distract her. Within seconds, she had launched the photo application and begun scrolling through the videos of our trip. She’d watch a video, giggle a ...
16 December 2011 /security /regulation
Movement along the wealth continuum, where clients’ wealth can both rise and fall, has intensified in recent times and has brought with it a raft of challenges for wealth managers. Although investors’ portfolios are by nature never stagnant, it is the sheer velocity and frequency of change that is proving tricky to deal with. The difficulty comes ...
15 December 2011
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