The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
Tags: Financial Services, IT, bank, mobile banking, Barclays, RBS
More than two-thirds of smartphone owners have not yet adopted mobile banking apps because of security concerns, a survey has revealed. By contrast, only 14% of those surveyed by security firm Metaforic said that security concerns were ...
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has demanded details of how major banks plan to prevent a repeat of the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) software glitch in June 2012. The glitch in the CA7 batch process scheduler meant 12 million ...
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Shopping or banking online depends on trust. Individuals interact with sites that they trust, and sites have to trust the person who is transacting with them. Many online banking sites are turning to two-factor authentication to confirm ...
Tags: Banking fraud, education issue, online banking, trust
More American adults use their smartphones and other cell phones to take pictures and to send texts than to download apps or do online banking, according to a Pew Research survey. The study, released Sunday, found that 82% of Americans ...
Tags: internet, Internet banking, Picture messaging, Smartphone survey
IDG News Service - Some of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that targeted the websites of U.S. financial institutions this week have peaked at 60 Gbps, according to researchers from DDoS mitigation provider Arbor Networks. ...
Tags: Ddos, Banks, Computer Products, U.S.Banks
The Co-operative is the latest bank to launch a mobile banking service after signing a three-year deal with mobile banking supplier Monitise. The smartphone app is available to all the bank’s registered internet customers and those ...
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Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
Tags: ageing IT systems, up to date, virtualise desktops, data warehouses
More American adults use their smartphones and other cell phones to take pictures and to send texts than to download apps or do online banking,according to a Pew Research survey. The study,released Sunday,found that 82%of Americans use ...
Tags: mobile phone, app, USA, Pew Research survey
The latest milestone to be reached in Nationwide's GBP1bn five-year IT transformation sees the launch of its mobile banking service as the project moves towards the final straight. The building society launched its mobile banking service ...
Tags: Mobile Banking, building society, internet bank, virtual desktops
The take-up of mobile technology will have a dramatic affect on back-office IT systems, with hidden costs and disruptions possible for companies that do not redesign systems and processes, according to Forrester Research. Businesses are ...
Tags: mobile technology, dramatic affect, back-office, IT systems
Bank of America topped a list of 23 large or regional banks to be named the best in online customer experience best practices in consumer banking by Keynote Competitive Research. Additionally, Keynote said BB&T ranked number one in a bank ...
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Barclays has launched a mobile banking app with similar functionality to its full online banking platform. It follows the mass adoption of its Pingit app, which allows users to make and receive payments with just a mobile number. The ...
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HSBC's online banking app for businesses is now available on Google's Android mobile operating system.(OS) The Business Banking app–which is already available on Apple and Blackberry devices–will now be accessible to hundreds ...
Tags: Google Android OS, HSBC, Online Business Banking App, mobile apps
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ARM Holdings have joined forces to offer PC software developers additional security features. US-based AMD is to license technology from UK-based ARM to add an ARM-based processor to its computer chips ...
Tags: AMD, ARM Holdings, PC software developers, additional security features