• Execs Worry More About Hackers Than Insiders

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    Survey: 71 Percent of Organizations Experienced Attacks in Past YearExecutives in a variety of industries who are in charge of securing their enterprises' IT say they're more anxious about outsiders hacking into their systems than insiders - either maliciously or inadvertently - threatening their digital assets, a new survey shows.

  • Why IT Security Careers Remain Hot

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    Careers in IT security remain hot, says David Foote, noted researcher and analyst of IT workforce trends. But there's a disconnect between current job opportunities and the talent pool looking to fill them.

  • The Future of Payments

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    The future worth of payments will not rely so much on tangible currency, but more on digital value and data. And that means a stronger need for security and data management.

  • FDIC: A Reminder to Institutions Preparing for Hurricane Irene

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    The FDIC is issuing a reminder that guidance developed in response to Hurricane Katrina emphasizes valuable lessons learned that should be considered in preparing for a significant storm.

  • Facial Biometrics Pose Privacy Woes

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
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  • FDIC: Guidance for Banks Affected by Irene

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has announced a series of steps intended to provide regulatory relief to financial institutions and facilitate recovery in areas affected by Hurricane Irene.

  • FDIC: Alert Regarding Phishing E-mails

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has received numerous reports of fraudulent e-mails that have the appearance of being from the FDIC.

  • NCUA: Preparing CUs for Hurricane Irene

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    The NCUA Board and staff have taken precautionary measures in the event Hurricane Irene negatively affects operations at credit unions or at its central headquarters here.

  • Insider Fraud: Are You at Risk?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    Job Cuts Make Institutions Vulnerable to Insider Crimes"If [employees] aren't being treated right and they don't think leaders at the bank are running the bank correctly, they can rationalize committing fraud," says banking/security expert George Tubin on the risk of insider crimes.

  • Phishing Scams Capitalize on Irene

    Updated: 2011-08-31 23:50:22
    Socially Engineered Hurricane Relief Schemes Expected to PeakMany disaster-related attacks are personal and direct, perpetrated through a phone call. But some take traditional routes, such as e-mail, while more are taking emerging routes, like text messages to mobile devices.

  • Things worth reading: 31st August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-31 07:31:58

  • Finformation warfare

    Updated: 2011-08-30 23:59:54

  • 10.19.11: Celent Banking Webinar: Core Banking Solutions for Credit Unions

    Updated: 2011-08-30 22:28:05
    Bart Narter, Senior Vice President, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of $195. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Steve Nawrocki at 617.262.3128 or snawrocki@celent.com. Please [...]

  • Keeping Up With

    Updated: 2011-08-30 14:39:19
    For those Slips readers who are not regular Bloomberg people, I highly recommend today's bit from Bill Rochelle about the 5th Circuit's recent bankruptcy decisions, and the role of Chief Judge Jones.

  • Things worth reading: 30th August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-30 07:12:34

  • Customer segmentation in retail banking

    Updated: 2011-08-29 23:15:34

  • The Finanser's Week: 22nd August - 28th August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-28 07:34:00

  • Kicking the Keynes Down the Road

    Updated: 2011-08-26 17:20:09
    If paying off big-bank debts with public money and transferring their bad loans onto national balance sheets hasn't worked so far, what else can we do for the economy? Not much.

  • Things worth reading: 26th August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-26 06:23:03

  • Bank branches again ...

    Updated: 2011-08-25 23:21:12

  • The ACI/S1/Fundtech Love Triangle

    Updated: 2011-08-25 17:52:44
    Back on June 27th, Fundtech and S1 announced that they were going to join forces. Then ACI stepped in and upped the ante. S1’s board said that pursuing talks with ACI was “not in the best financial or strategic interests of S1 and its stockholders.” Now ACI is upping the ante again. What deal do you think makes the most sense [...]

  • Bribery, corruption and banking

    Updated: 2011-08-25 13:32:53

  • Wanna see the iPhone 5?

    Updated: 2011-08-25 12:56:00

  • Things worth reading: 25th August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-25 06:32:18

  • 9.7.11: Celent Banking Webinar: It Takes More Than a Village Redux: The Decline of the Community Bank

    Updated: 2011-08-24 18:21:53
    Bart Narter, Senior Vice President, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of $195. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Steve Nawrocki at 617.262.3128 or snawrocki@celent.com. Please click here for [...]

  • Foreclosure Crisis in Europe vs US

    Updated: 2011-08-24 16:38:01
    While European markets have seen increases in mortgage foreclosures, more robust regulatory intervention seems to have kept defaults and foreclosures to much lower levels than we are experiencing in the United States. At the peak of the crisis a year...

  • Things worth reading: 24th August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-24 08:04:19

  • Summer's Over

    Updated: 2011-08-24 01:58:09
    And I'm back up on Dealbook, this time about the Greek-Finnish fiasco.

  • Is SEPA Dead?

    Updated: 2011-08-23 19:35:42
    That’s the slightly “hysterical” question I’m being asked today after the announcement on Monday from VocaLink. Hysterical in the sense I don’t know whether to laugh, or perhaps as in hysteria that something may be interesting happening in SEPA. I will declare an interest in this story. I worked for many years at VocaLink, and indeed [...]

  • Things a banker says, and what they really mean

    Updated: 2011-08-23 15:50:12

  • Things worth reading: 23rd August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-23 07:06:46

  • 8.24.11: Celent Bay Area Mobile Banking Executive Summit: The Evolution of Mobile Financial Services – Lessons Learned from Around the World

    Updated: 2011-08-22 16:31:30
    Bart Narter, Senior Vice President, Celent’s Banking Group This event is open to banks and is by invitation only. We are limited registration to this event, to two (2) contacts per bank, as total registration will be capped at 20 atttendees. Please click here for more information.

  • The $500 Million Question: Which Eurozone Bank Needed the Loan?

    Updated: 2011-08-22 14:09:22
    [NOTE: This is a guest post by Dan Bischoff]Last Wednesday, the European Central Bank acknowledged that a Eurozone bank -- it has pointedly and adamantly refused to say which bank -- borrowed $500...

  • Things worth reading: 22nd August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-22 06:05:04

  • The Finanser's Week: 15th August - 21st August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-21 06:33:11

  • Former Moody's Exec Details Sleaze Within Credit Rating Firm

    Updated: 2011-08-19 21:16:07
    Everyone from liberal lawmakers to conservative think-tankers have pointed to the credit rating agencies as one cause of the financial crisis. Now a former ratings exec is dishing the dirt.

  • Things worth reading: 19th August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-19 07:47:39

  • 9.8.11: Celent Banking Webinar: Credit Card Customer Retention

    Updated: 2011-08-18 21:30:04
    Zilvinas Bareisis, Senior Analyst, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of $195. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Steve Nawrocki at 617.262.3128 or snawrocki@celent.com. Please click here for more information.

  • Foreign Systems in the US Market

    Updated: 2011-08-18 17:38:20
    Core banking migration is hard, and even harder if you don’t know the local market. Oracle learned that lesson at People’s Bank and Infosys/Finacle learned that at Union Bank. In both cases we had foreign systems being implemented by largely foreign teams into the complex US banking market. I was at an Infosys event where [...]

  • New York's banks and breasts

    Updated: 2011-08-18 16:00:02

  • The Coming World of Smaller Banks

    Updated: 2011-08-18 15:23:29
    Frank Partnoy wrote a fascinating opinion piece in Financial Times last week about the coming world of smaller banks. The article has prompted no small amount of commentary. I felt obliged to add my own two cents here. In his article, Mr. Partnoy muses, “How many people does it take to operate a modern bank and [...]

  • Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Is Off to a Promising Start

    Updated: 2011-08-18 11:50:33
    Derwent Capital recently launched the first hedge fund that uses proprietary software to analyze tweets for clues about investor sentiment. After one month, the firm is beating the market.

  • Not Just Me In Love With Payments?

    Updated: 2011-08-18 11:19:29
    There must be something in the water at the moment. Considering that August is supposed to be the quiet month of the year, there have been a rash of announcements about plans to merge or acquire in the payments arena, and if the rumours are true, we certainly haven’t seen the last of the deals [...]

  • Things worth reading: 17th August 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-18 07:01:00

  • Financial Services Next?

    Updated: 2011-08-17 18:25:02
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. AWS GovCloud is an AWS Region designed to allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the [...]

  • Recession? The U.S. Economy Should Be So Lucky

    Updated: 2011-08-12 19:18:40
    If economist Kenneth Rogoff is correct, the good news is that the economy isn't about to fall off a cliff. Now for the bad news -- we're already squashed.

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