Bill Payments via Your Smartphone

Similar to depositing your check using your phone, paying bills this way is just around the corner. Mitek systems have developed Mobile Photo Bill Pay and U.S. Bank is said to be already testing this functionality.

This weeks best reads ...

How many organizations really have business continuity management? http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature1060.html

Cyprus leaves banking union up in air - Hugo Dixon http://reut.rs/Z4uQ6I http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature1060.html

KPMG quits audit roles over insider trading allegations http://bbc.in/17pv5Rg

How Good Is Your Bank's Website Performance? http://shar.es/dEKK2

Most Basel members 'failed to meet January deadline for new regulations' http://dld.bz/cvWm7

Laiki Bank: The Cyprus bank staff hit worst of all http://bbc.in/13Z4iwn

Betray your bank before your bank betrays you http://dld.bz/cw4sf

Tax dodgers will have a tougher time in Luxembourg

“Europe's last bastions of banking secrecy are crumbling, as governments come under pressure to do more to tackle tax evasion.

Luxembourg said Wednesday it would begin sharing information about depositors' accounts in 2015, just two days after fellow hold-out Austria signalled it would enter EU negotiations to do the same.”

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European Union's Push for Bank Transparency

Stratfor Europe Analyst Adriano Bosoni discusses how the European Union plans to tighten control over its banks and create a more transparent banking system

For more analysis, visit: http://www.Stratfor.com

BofA rolls out video teller ATMs

“As it accelerates its branch closure programme, Bank of America is preparing to introduce ATMs that let customers talk to tellers through real-time video technology.”

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This video from uGenius Personal Teller Machine shows exactly how a video teller works.

Major tax haven users exposed

Leaked documents name more than 100,000 people, including politicians in France and Russia, with off-shore tax haven accounts.

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2013 Tech Trends IPv6 (And This Time We Mean It)

From the “Deloitte CIO Journal” 

“Internet Protocol (IP) is how we connect to anyone and anything on the Internet. Every participating device, application, or service has a distinct address - a way to identify itself and communicate with other devices, applications and services. Today's IP standard, IPv4, dates back to the 1970s. It allowed for 4.3 billion unique IP addresses, which was more than sufficient to meet the computing demands of the time. But we're approaching a breaking point, fueled by growth of mobile adoption, increased pace of public cloud adoption and the explosion of new end points with Internet connectivity via embedded sensors on physical objects. This will likely force enterprises that work with customers and business partners via the public Internet to move to version 6 as their primary communication method in the next two or three years. This is a daunting task for which action should not be deferred much longer. IPv4's sunset is no longer a question of if, but of how soon. Telecommunications, hardware and systems software providers, and content providers have been leading the way - ahead of customer and enterprise demand. Organizations should follow suit promptly. This time, we really mean it.”