1205 Results from 2008
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This kind of news actually make the Central Bank of UAE and authorities in the UAE truly 'seem' uninformed. Anyone in the payment security business (fraudsters as well) know that this will not solve the ATM fraud problem. IRIS scanning is a costly solution as it is quite expensive to equip ATM machines with this capability. But what makes it a non-...
04 December 2008 /security Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
More often we see evidence of our collective inability to fend off internet criminals in our life no matter how many temporary fixes and patches we put in place. Refer here for an example yesterday. We invent encryption to the power of 256 bits that can be broken; we have interactive challenge and response techniques that can be copied; we have on...
04 December 2008
So ... Barclaycard have introduced a slide-and-go payment system that allows a punter to leave the office via an alternative exit, purchase a banana in the supermarket and then head off, via the library, into the underground (or subway, as the cars all appear to be driving on the right), where a single beep sees him slip-sliding all the way home, ...
03 December 2008 /payments
Apparently online sales are still doing quite well, despite the credit crunch. Anyway, rather than leave it to the last minute I thought I'd start my seasonal present research early this year while pretending to be working on Finextra implementing an RSS feed. Having ruled out a flying car as too pricey, I always think - if in doubt - get 'em a ...
03 December 2008 Whatever...
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Came across this post (via prolific tweeter James Governor) describing Spain's La Caixa ATMs having Google Maps embedded. Not sure if this is news to you, but it was to me. Any other Web 2.0 / Mashups made it inside ATMs?
02 December 2008 /retail Finance 2.0
Brian Krebs at Security Fix reports that Apple appear to have made an interesting U-turn on the whole virus on a Mac thing. "Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple anti-virus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult". Full suppor...
02 December 2008 /security
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The Finextra news desk is groaning under the weight of Christmas-themed press releases, as companies desperately try to generate some extra seasonal income during the economic crisis. One of the more bizarre examples to hit the newswires this week was an urgent dispatch from the American Peanut Council, which advises cash-strapped consumers to beat...
02 December 2008 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
There’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is that at current rates of progress, in the future women will be earning the same amount as men. The bad news is that none of us will reap the benefits as it will take 187 years (and even longer than that for women in the IT sector and for women in Scotland!) According to the Chartered Managem...
02 December 2008 Women in Technology
The government’s recent colossal capital injection into the UK’s banks is obviously a good thing for all those with a vested interest in the banks. Increasing liquidity in inter-bank lending is one piece of the puzzle needed to start fixing the unquestionably broken face of business and finance in the UK. And, while it won’t fix things overnight, ...
02 December 2008 /payments /retail
PricewaterhouseCoopers have published the results of a survey into UK attitudes to credit and to me at least it doesn't look terribly healthy. Twenty per cent of credit customers in the UK are worried about the future availability of credit. Almost thirty per cent (27%) are concerned about their ability to repay debts in the future. The PwC Credit...
02 December 2008
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