989 Results from 2010
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
When the, then, chairman of JP Morgan ask his risk department to "give me a daily report on our risk exposure" in the late 80s, little did he know that the bank would be responsbile for changing the way risk is measured and preceived across the industry. JP Morgan's RiskMetrics introduced Value-at-Risk, historical simulation, variance and...
27 January 2010 /regulation
Steven Murdoch Royal Society University Research Fellow at University College London
This week, the 2010 Financial Cryptography conference is being held in Tenerife. The papers to be presented are likely of interest to the Finextra audience. Unfortunately, most are not available online, but searching for the title might show up a copy on the authors' home page. My paper at FC'10 is on the security of Verified by Visa and MasterCard...
27 January 2010 /security /payments Information Security
Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants
Do you know the Real Definition of Credit ? Credit is a reserve of money granted to you, usually by a bank, that you will have to repay over a predefined period of time, but that you can use immediately. And you are paying an interest in exchange of this service. This money or what you buy with it is NOT YOURS until the loan is fully reimbursed. ...
26 January 2010 Online Banking
Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA
The EBA is keen to get community input on the key EBAday topics for 2010 and invite bankers, corporate treasurers, and infrastructure and service providers to provide their suggestions and feedback in the 'EBAday community'. We look forward to hearing your ideas on ways and means to help progress the payments business in Europe.
26 January 2010 EBAday
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
For $400-$700 you too can be a criminal hacker. Phishing hacking and spoofing software has been around for a few years. Heres what may be an example. The ease and availability of this good for nothing other than crime software has made it easier, cheaper and more user friendly than ever to get into the cybercrime business. Anyone with moderate com...
26 January 2010 /security /regulation
Retired Member
After my latest posts about risk management (identity management basics and getting the best out of your data) I was asked a great question I think about every day: it's great to have a methodology and a strategy, but how do you get other people in the organization (whether inside or outside of the risk management group) to agree and work with yo...
25 January 2010 /payments /regulation
In my quest to learn more about what makes a criminal hacker tick, I came across Mr Chiesa when he commented on a blog post I wrote “How I Wasted 4 Hours with a Criminal Hacker”. He warned me I was treading on dangerous ground due to the fact that when communicating with the blackhat, I used my real name and provided my web address. His concern wa...
25 January 2010 /security /regulation
In the previous post we've looked at mobile payments in a glance, why there's a huge chance today and what are the biggest challenges. In this post I will start diving deeper into them, and suggest a few ideas. There's a group of very talented guys I know, who used to work at this IT Company in Israel that was a part of the mobile industry. They ...
25 January 2010 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Re: Pimp my payment tweets: Blippy opens with $1.6m funding I had the same idea initially but I found useful reading an article on cnet: Blippy launches the Twitter of personal finance. "It will tell you not just where you’re spending money, but what products you’re spending it on and–if you set up the privacy settings appropriately–who else...
24 January 2010 /payments
Advancements in technology over the past decade have created a tremendous amount of opportunity for the savvy businessperson. Whether it’s mobility, streamlined processes, marketing, or the ability to sell to a global market, there’s never been a better time to be in business. Like anything good, there is always a negative. While there are certain...
23 January 2010 /security /regulation
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