Nearly a quarter of the world's banks were hit by security breaches in the past year, a study shows. Top threats include vulnerabilities in mobile technologies and social media, financial fraud and "hacktivist" groups, according to the ...
Tags: security breaches, social media, mobile technologies, security systems
TradeCard, Inc., the supply chain collaboration and global trade platform used by more than 10,000 retailers, brands, manufacturers and service providers, announced that golf apparel leader Cutter & Buck has extended its TradeCard ...
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British banking and financial services company Barclays may acquire 70%stake in the French poultry firm Doux,a move that could keep the debt-ridden company afloat and protect nearly 3,400 jobs. Doux,which entered into administration in ...
Cyara Solutions--a pioneer of next-generation premise and cloud solutions for testing,monitoring and simulation of interactive voice response(IVRs)and contact center systems and applications--today announced the hiring of Laurence Webb,a ...
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BT today reported a 6% drop in overall revenues for the first quarter of 2012, blaming the economic downturn for its poor performance. Revenue fell from almost £4.8bn to £4.48bn compared with the same quarter last year, with ...
Tags: BT, long-troubled Global Services, financial services, European Economy
Universal Insurance, a Puerto Rico-based provider of insurance and financial services, is planning to upgrade to Cover-All's new policy administration platform and its commercial lines products. The products include commercial auto, ...
Tags: commercial lines products, Universal Group, Cover-All Policy
IT outsourcing contract values have hit their lowest in five years as fears over the stability of the Euro restrain European business spending. Research on the first half of 2012,carried out by the Information Services Group(ISG),revealed ...
Tags: IT outsourcing, European business, ISG, UK, Eurozone Crisis
Less than a year after announcing it had impacted one million people worldwide,Barefoot Power achieved its second milestone of bringing affordable lighting and phone charging products to two million people across 20 countries.In ...
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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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The number of phishing websites detected reached an all-time high earlier this year, a sign that making fake websites spoofing real ones is still a lucrative trade for cybercriminals. In its latest report, the Anti-Phishing Working Group ...
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Financial services and the public sector remain the biggest clients of IT consultancies but the availability of new technologies such as cloud computing and continued austerity have meant increasing take-up in other sectors. While the ...
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When the Financial Services Authority(FSA)introduces new rules,companies under its jurisdiction often have to invest in IT to enable them to adhere to the new guidelines. Because data is so important in finance companies,regulations ...
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Technology firm CSC has said that its global insurance software suite Integral is available on Microsoft's Windows Server with a SQL Server database. CSC said that the addition of the Microsoft technology to Integral's portable Java-based ...
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The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) has called for the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework across the banking and industry and its software and services suppliers to support the move to off-the-shelf ...
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The number of connected devices is set to double over the next eight years to 50 billion globally,which could generate$4.5trn(2.9trn pound )to the world economy. But more spectrum will be crucial in achieving a more networked ...
Tags: GSMA, mobile operators, telecoms sector, Networks provider Ericsson