Does banking have the allure of a new Apple product? Barclays Bank thinks it does. Barclays is attempting to redefine banking as it tries to mimic the success of companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. PingIt, the bank's real-time ...
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Data breaches in the UK across all sectors have increased an average of more than tenfold in the past five years, security firm Imation has uncovered. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) revealed the figures in response to a ...
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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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Sharp has been bailed out by the banks to the tune of $4.6bn. Mizuho Corporate Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi are to put up $2.3bn in loans and extend a $2.3bn revolving credit facility. Sharp has debts of $12.76bn, of which ...
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Japan's Sharp, one of the world's largest makers of LCD panels and a supplier of displays for Apple products, has taken the rare step of mortgaging its factories and buildings to secure an emergency loan from its main banks, a spokeswoman ...
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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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(China Glass Network) According to statistics issued by National Development and Reform Committee, output of flat glass during January to September this year is 546 million standard cases, with year-on-year drop of 6.9%; Exporting amount of ...
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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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THE sharemarket ended the week on a low note as investors took fright after US budget talks on the fiscal cliff fell into disarray. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 10.5 points,or 0.2 per cent,at 4623.6,reversing gains that had seen ...
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Consensus views on a U.S.manufacturing resurgence have largely centered on rising labor costs in markets such as China as the key driver of re-shoring back to the U.S.However,a new PwC US report,A Homecoming for U.S.Manufacturing?,reveals ...
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Proview known as Apple's Chinese IPAD trademark foe,has intended to attract over 100 million yuan(£10m)in funding to launch an LED lighting and bio-energy firm. Proview invested a whopping$155m(£99m)in its LED manufacturing ...
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An increasing number of vulnerability researchers will focus their attention on industrial control systems(ICS)in the year to come,but so will cyberattackers,security experts believe. Control systems are made up of supervisory software ...
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IT infrastructure specialists LETN announce the opportunity to buy Storage Magazine's Product of the Year - NetApp OnCommand Balance - at a remarkable 50% reduction. READING, UK, August 11, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- OnCommand Balance ...
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