Tuesday, 26 February 2013

What we are reading … 26th February 2013


Madoff to FBN: Maintain Scrutiny on Banks and Feeder Funds http://shar.es/jgL9a

Bernie Madoff: 'The Banks Had To Know What I Was Doing' http://huff.to/Xz18a0

Google Developing Touchscreen Devices http://on.wsj.com/Ya3WxB

Kenya Approves Fee For Mobile Money Transfers http://shar.es/YNA4Z

Consumerization, BYOD and MDM: What you need to know http://dld.bz/cjPC8

Carrier Billing Beats NFC For Short-Term Monetization of Mobile Payments http://dld.bz/cjPC7

Study: 37% of Britons would consider leaving 'big five' banks http://dld.bz/cjPC6

Tanzania: New Regulations for mobilemoney services due in June http://shar.es/YNAtU

Staying in touch with the home front: BYOD in the US military http://dld.bz/cjPC2

MasterCard Unveils MasterPass Digital Payments Platform At Mobile World Congress

“MasterCard has wasted no time making major headlines at Mobile World Congress today, strengthening its foothold in the digital wallet space with the introduction of its new MasterPass digital payments platform.

Termed as “the evolution of PayPass Wallet Services,” MasterPass will let consumers use any payments card or enabled device to streamline their shopping experiences regardless of where or in what manner they choose to make purchases.” 

Monday, 25 February 2013

Inside Wells Fargo’s Customization of the ATM Experience

What’s the real story behind Wells Fargo & Co.‘s roll out this week of its automated teller machine interface? The updates aim to tailor the ATM experience to the individual user, based on that user’s transaction history. Alicia Moore, Wells Fargo’s head of ATM banking, told “Bank Innovation” 

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What we are reading … 25th February 2013

Retailer Credit Card - possible engine of growth for banks http://dld.bz/cjP5p

The One Thing Banks Should Never Do on Facebook and Twitter http://dld.bz/cjP26

BYOD and the Consumerization of IT http://shar.es/YPada

10 Mobile Payment Systems from the Cell Phone Stone Age http://dld.bz/cjDnk

Operational Risk Management...: IO Convergence: Cyber Warfare Unified Taxonomy... http://shar.es/YFjQ0

New Wells Fargo ATMs Can Predict What People Want http://bit.ly/YAZGVU

Unavoidable: 62 percent of companies to allow BYOD by year's end http://dld.bz/cjDe3

Sunday, 24 February 2013

DDoS Attack on Bank Hid $900,000 Cyberheist

“A Christmas Eve cyberattack against the Web site of a regional California financial institution helped to distract bank officials from an online account takeover against one of its clients, netting thieves more than $900,000.

At approximately midday on December 24, 2012, organized cyber crooks began moving money out of corporate accounts belonging to Ascent Builders, a construction firm based in Sacramento, Calif. In short order, the company’s financial institution – San Francisco-based Bank of the West — came under a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a digital assault which disables a targeted site using a flood of junk traffic from compromised PCs.”

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Saturday, 23 February 2013

One-man bank keeps German village business running

“Peter Breiter, 41, is an unusual banker. Not for him the big bonuses, complicated financial instruments and multi-million deals.

He is happy instead writing transaction slips out by hand for the 500 inhabitants of the tiny southern German village of Gammesfeld.”

 
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