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 ...
Many global organisations could do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers,according to KPMG. More than three quarters of organisations in the Forbes 2000 are leaking data,potentially creating ...
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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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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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Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
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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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A construction company in Maine may stand a greater chance of recovering some of the $345,000 it lost in fraudulent wire transfers that it blames on poor online banking practices of its bank. Patco Construction Company, based in Sanford, ...
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UCM Timber (Specialties) Ltd, the only surviving part of the UCM Timber plc business, has been bought out by management for an undisclosed sum. UCM Timber (Specialties) chairman Mark Plews and directors Nigel King and Gary Mitchell have ...
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Despite the economic turmoil and return to recession,IT contractor rates in London have increased 3.4%over the past year. This reflects how organisations–which see IT as a way of improving business–are running projects that ...
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RBS is said to be considering legal action against CA Technologies,following the debacle of the past week which left millions of customers unable to access their funds. A software failure in the banking group's IT systems stopped customer ...
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Global Solar Energy Inc of Tucson,AZ,USA,which makes flexible copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)thin-film photovoltaic cells and modules,says that-since it is consolidating operations and focusing on growth segments through its 40MWp ...
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US underwriter BancorpSouth Insurance Services, a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank has struck a deal to buy the assets of the Securance Group, for an undisclosed amount. BancorpSouth chairman and CEO Aubrey Patterson said the agreement to ...
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A software malfunction is to blame for making RBS and NatWest services unavailable to customers, Computer Weekly understands. A source close to the situation confirmed it was a software problem that led to two days of downtime at the RBS ...
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Nationwide uses a virtualised environment to test its new internet banking system to cut costs and development time for new online services. The bank is using CA's Lisa Virtualise software to create copies of its 36 back-end systems to ...
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A survey of software testing capabilities has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of organisations embedding testing into the software development process. The annual report from consultancy Experimentus measured organisations ...
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