When Andy Haywood says he is extremely busy, it is probably not an exaggeration. Eight months after joining the Co-operative Business Group (CBG) as group chief information officer (CIO), he is leading a full-scale IT transformation ...
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Major high street banks are planning to impose new terms and conditions on customers that would make them squarely responsible for credit and debit card fraud. Further reading Seven-year glitch earns Bank of Scotland 4.2m fine Banks' IT ...
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Polaris Financial Technology Ltd, a leading global Financial Technology Company, today announced that in the CEB TowerGroup research report, Polaris' Intellect Payments received 'Best in Class' for Payables Functionality, one of three major ...
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UK retailer The Co-operative Group has appointed Kingfisher executive Euan Sutherland as its new CEO. Sutherland, 43, will take up the role in May next year, the UK's fifth largest grocer said today (19 December). Sutherland, COO at home ...
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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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Taipei, Sept. 11, 2012 (CENS)--The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has agreed to allow banks buying into mobile payment platform company organized by five major telecom carriers and EasyCard Corp, so as to tap the massive ...
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Taipei, Sept. 11, 2012 (CENS)--To attract more mainland Chinese investments to Taiwan, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) may ease restrictions on qualified domestic institutional investors (QDIIs) from China to invest in Taiwan's ...
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The wave of cyberattacks against a half-dozen U.S. financial institutions has subsided this week, but the recent demonstration of force shows a careful honing of destructive techniques that could continue to cause headaches. The attacks ...
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to various U.S. financial institutions. Dubbed Stabuniq, the Trojan program was found on mail ...
All Apple users, including iPhones and iPads can now play their favourite online casino games directly from their Apple device at Platinum Play. ST JULIANS, MALTA, October 14, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Platinum Play Casinos Online has ...
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Network Rail chief information officer (CIO) Susan Cooklin has taken on the added responsibility for finance and HR shared services. The expanded role, which has officially commenced on 30 November, sees Cooklin’s team expand from ...
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AFP reported that oil was up in Asia on trader expectations of a hike in Chinese crude demand after a key survey showed its manufacturing activity hitting a 14 month high in December. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for ...
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A suspected fault in how Samsung Electronics has implemented the Android's kernel in several of its devices could allow a malicious application to gain total control over the device. The vulnerability was described on Saturday by the user ...
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PTI reported that corporate entities interested in setting up new banks including Reliance Capital and Religare have begun doing the groundwork after a key Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha last evening. In a major step to reform India's ...
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The creators of Carberp, a banking Trojan program used exclusively in Russian-speaking countries, have started to sell an improved version of the malware together with custom scripts that would allow cybercriminals to target U.S. online ...
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