Monday, March 12, 2012
U.S. a magnet for Canadian card fraudsters Gartner analyst: “Don’t send your criminals over the border. Keep them there.”
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Kenyan banking security regulation spurs data center growth But, despite the growth, there's no sign whether banks will offer services to third parties
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
RBC launches new iPhone, BlackBerry apps The bank says the apps were built specifically to run on the two popular smart phone operating systems. Android and Windows Phone 7 versions are still being developed
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Customer service key to the future of banking: CIOs Panelists at a conference in Sydney, Australia discussed the differences between banking today and during the 90s, and the role of the technology division. Find out why one speaker is not a fan of outsourcing
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Credit Suisse boosts IT staff The bank said that the growth was mainly in its IT department, alongside its sales force for fixed income, prime services and cash equities in its Investment Banking division
Monday, January 04, 2010
Switchboard routes multichannel support calls Architech Solutions is adding social media to call centre communication channels. The challenges with interactive voice response and how IDC Canada predicts banking service will change in 2010
Monday, October 05, 2009
Systems integration woes plague TD Bank All hands are on deck at TD Bank as a botched computer integration project slows down the bank’s ability to update certain customer transaction information...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Canadian Western Bank gets an IT makeover With a mandate to better enable future business growth, CIO Darrell Jones has begun reshaping IT at Canadian Western Bank group of companies. Drawing on frameworks such as COBIT and ITIL, he’s building an IT organization with more mature controls and processes, and a much needed governance structure
Friday, June 05, 2009
CARE seeks partners for mobile phone banking in Africa The humanitarian organization hopes to provide service for 4,000 people in Malawi and Tanzania through village savings and loan associations.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Indian outsourcers will be hit by U.S. financial crisis For outsourcers the outlook is quite grim as some of its customers, like Lehman Brothers, are no longer around, said a partner at one firm. But one analyst sees outsourcing increasing in the medium to long term as American companies try to cut costs
Monday, September 15, 2008
Market turmoil could mean boost for India's IT industry Trouble in financial sector will open opportunities for technology-based checks and balances, says head of association. But, he added, it will only be a 'short-term blip'
Friday, March 14, 2008
Tech sector felt the impact of Eliot Spitzer Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced New York governor making headlines this week for being linked to a prostitution ring, is perhaps best known for his aggressive takedown of unethical Wall Street firms during his days as attorney general. But the former prosecutor also played a big role in cleaning up the high-tech and network industries.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
CGI to help banks diagnose credit processes CGI Group Inc.’s new Credit Diagnostic service is delivered by experts who can recommend an actionable plan to improve banks’ financial position
Thursday, January 31, 2008
SkyFire browser generates heat with mobile ISVs The CEO of a mobile application vendor says Skyfire will help Web developers build mobile support into their services but it could compromise security. It’s currently available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6
Monday, October 29, 2007
Brother Canada taps VeriSign for e-commerce security The printer manufacturer chose Extended Validation SSL Certificates from Verisign encourage people to shop without fear on its recently-launched a business-to-consumer Web site
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Database glitches leave 400000 UK workers without pay Database problems at the Bacs clearing system have left up to 400,000 people awaiting their salary payments. Bacs provides a central clearing house for automated payments and clears 30 million a day. It is one of the largest automated payment systems in the world, processing more than 20 million salaries a month, 70 per cent of U.K. household bills and the majority of state benefits and pension payments.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Flaherty in Ottawa discussing the 3 Es and ATM fees MPs were trickling back into Ottawa last week for the next Parliamentary session set to resume on Monday. The Conservative caucus arrived extra early for two days of meetings on Parliament Hill and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty took time out to speak with reporters.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Building a bank without walls If you’re a Canadian, it’s a slogan as familiar to you as “It’s always fresh at Tim Hortons”. Oddly enough, though, it’s uttered by stern-faced Dutchman, Frederik de Groot, admonishing you to “Save your money!”
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Intuit to buy Digital Insight for $1.5 billion With a promise to create new types of online banking services, financial software vendor Intuit Inc. has agreed to buy financial services provider Digital Insight Corp. for CAD$1.5 billion in cash.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Bank admits to security blunder in outsourcing deal Westpac Bank has admitted that IT security has been the one casualty of its 10-year, A$4.3 billion (US$3.3 billion) IT outsourcing deal with IBM GSA which was inked in the year 2000.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
National sales specialist, Lenovo Canada Forget James Bond. Biometrics technology is finally starting to come down to earth to address some far more mundane issues. It's coming to the aid of harried users clamouring for release from the endless passwords they must use to get on with their work and lives. 
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Web wisdom on its head Before we drift too deeply into the new year, let’s air out more of the e-mail received here during the last one. In a recent column about how the growth of e-commerce has unexpectedly increased the volume of mail-order catalogues sent to U.S. homes, I invited you folks to offer other examples of the ’Net turning conventional wisdom on its head. Among the replies:
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Internet fraudsters enjoy boom in UK Internet fraudsters have had another good year, according to the U.K.’s Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS). The banking organization's latest annual figures show that card not present (CNP) fraud in the country has risen by 29 percent compared to 2004, reaching £90.6 million (US$175 million) in the six months to June this year. Of that, fraud specific to Internet transactions has risen by five percent, to £58 million. 
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Biometrics Special 
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
South African bank, telecom team on mobile banking Standard Bank and MTN last week launched MTN Banking -- a mobile, person to person banking platform. MTN Banking is a 50/50 joint venture between the two, which sees Standard Bank providing the banking infrastructure (and licence), and MTN the telephony/SMS system.