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Former HP chairman pleads not guilty to felonies

Former HP chairman pleads not guilty to feloniesDid Dunn surrender her passport?Dunn was released on her own recognizance? As far as I know, she still is on the board of directors for a large firm based in EnglandAfter working as an investigative reporter, Dunn woked in finance as a temporary...

Tags: pond, Barclays Plc., Barclays Global, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

Did Barclays err in going with card readers for two-factor security?

Did Barclays err in going with card readers for two-factor security?Physical 'tokens' are comingIts good to see that others are picking up on this trail. The card reader is an issue, although in the Netherlands I did see ABN Amro trial a version of this that was compact and generated...

Tags: security, token, card reader, Barclays Plc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Did Barclays err in going with card readers for two-factor security?

Here on Between the Lines, I've routinely hounded the US banking industry for not biting the bullet and moving all of its customers regardless of whether the customers like it or not to a multi-factor two or more system for authenticating users for online banking. For some banks in...

Tags: authenticator

Blog posts 2006-08-09

Most popular sites among 30-something Brits: Barclays, Argos, Halifax

Popular sites among UK Internet users ages 30 and above involve money and saving, Nielsen//NetRatings reports.Most popular sites among 30-something BritsSiteReachAudience, 000Barclays30%564Argos28%972Halifax28%642Play.com26%666PayPal26%1,172The National Lottery26%840Tesco25%981eBay23%2,796Channel 422%586Amazon22%1,764Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

Tags: Argos, Barclays Plc.

Blog posts 2006-03-15

The Lion - Barclays Premiership Desktop Alerts (exe)

If you love Barclays Premiership football, you'll love The Lion. Official Desktop Messenger of The FA Premier League. The Lion is an exclusive application designed to provide you with instant access to the latest news from the world's most exciting league plus offers, competitions, results, reports, fixture changes and exclusive...

Tags: League, Barclays Plc., Skinkers, Lion, Desktops, Security, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-12-29

IBM Empowers Barclays New Business Integration Team

Enable is the Information Technology IT services provider in the Barclays Group with the Information Systems Support ISS division providing operational support for the group's infrastructure. A relatively new unit within the ISS division, the 60 members of the NBIT were battling with a rapidly changing environment, unclear service propositions...

Tags: Team, Barclays Plc., IBM Corp., Integration, Team Management, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Software License Compliance Group Programme Provides Visibility and Governance Strengthening Partnership With Barclays

One of the largest financial services groups in the United Kingdom, Barclays Plc has been in business for more than 300 years. Barclays identified with the need to demonstrate compliance, and comfortable with the innovative and constructive approach to be undertaken by IBM, agreed to start the Software License Compliance...

Tags: Software, Partnership, Software License, Barclays Plc., IBM Corp.

Case studies

Unisys Case Study: Barclays & Lloyds TSB

Major banks want to save money in processing a huge, but declining, volume of checks. To address the challenges of the payment industry in the 21st century, Unisys and its partners have formed Intelligent Processing Solutions Ltd. iPSL. The company is 51% owned by Unisys, with Barclays and LloydsTSB each...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Barclays Plc., Business Structures, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Finance

Case studies

Barclays Global Investors to Automate Application Distribution Worldwide With Marimba's Castanet

As the world's largest institutional investment manager, Barclays relied on Castanet to streamline the distribution and management of approximately 350 applications to all of their desktop and mobile systems around the world. Barclays was looking for a cost-effective distribution solution to replace a myriad of commercial solutions and internal processes...

Tags: Marimba, Barclays Plc., Investor, Marimba Castanet, It Management, It service Management

Case studies

Barclays Creates Efficient Knowledge-Sharing Environment, Improves Client Service Using Vignette Collaboration Technology

Barclays Global Investors is one of the world's largest asset managers providing structured investment strategies such as risk-controlled active strategies and indexing. While launching a new version of the company's public Internet site in 2001, the IT development team at BGI also began evaluating online collaboration technology applications that could...

Tags: Collaboration, Barclays Plc., Vignette Corp., Barclays Global Investors, Asset Management, Team Management, Groupware, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Barclays Banks on StorageTek Virtual Tape

Barclays has implemented StorageTek virtual tape in its live data and DR centres, to provide a flexible, scalable platform to support its ongoing tape data storage requirements. As part of a strategic Data Centre Transformation DCT programme, the implementation of the Virtual Storage Manager VSM system and 9840 high-density tape...

Tags: Bank, Tape, Barclays Plc., StorageTek

Case studies

Barclays PLC Trusts eGain

Ranked third among UK-based banks, Barclays PLC offers a comprehensive array of consumer and corporate financial services, with offices in more than 60 countries around the world. In 1998, faced with a rapidly expanding customer base and the need to boost productivity without increasing staff, Barclays executives began searching for...

Tags: Barclays Plc., eGain Communications Corp., Strategy, Financial Services, Management

Case studies

Barclays Stockbrokers Limited Trusts eGain

Barclays Stockbrokers Limited BSL is the United Kingdom's biggest retail stockbroker. It is part of Barclays Private Clients & International, and offers execution-only, advisory and discretionary investment services. In January 2003, BSL acquired the UK dealing arm of Charles Schwab Europe CSE. Over the next 12 months it faced the...

Tags: Barclays Plc., eGain Communications Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management

Case studies

Barclays Predicts Significant Returns Thanks to Standardised Microsoft Technologies and Collaboration Software

Barclays Bank promised and delivered shareholders cost reductions of £1 billion and needed to find new ways of streamlining business processes and increasing efficiency to meet this target. As part of this exercise, the bank chose to standardise its desktops on Microsoft software, and adopt the Microsoft Office system, such...

Tags: Collaboration, Barclays Plc., Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software

Case studies

Barclays Capital Achieves Guaranteed Reliability and Performance With New Fixed-Income Solution

Barclays Capital is one of the stellar success stories in investment banking of recent years. The firm's projected growth plan required the bank to review its existing fixed-income trading system, to see how it could handle an increasing amount of trading volume. After close consultation with Microsoft Services, Barclays Capital...

Tags: Latency, Performance, Barclays Plc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Barclays Capital, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies

Barclays Bank Deploys SecureWave Sanctuary Device Control to Remove USB Security Risk

Barclays is a UK-based financial services group and an international banking organisation, with branches throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and South America, engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. The challenge was to create a secure environment within the branch network and to secure against the unauthorised use of USB...

Tags: Barclays Plc., USB, Banking, Financial Services

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Additional Resources

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

U90 Ladder (exe)

U90 Ladder is the software tool used to create applications for the M90 PLC. After you plan the control task, use U90 Ladder to write, debug, and download the PLC control and HMI applications into the M90. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Application, Unitronics, U90 Ladder, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-30

HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks

What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using the bank's legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It's even more interesting to measure the average...

Tags: Bank, Vulnerability, XSS, Flaw, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-29

UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008

Banking Service Audience, 000 Visits per user Total Internet: Total Audience 33,254 71.0 Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Group 2,906 5.9 NatWest Bank 2,021 5.9 Royal Bank of Scotland 952 5.5 Lloyds TSB 2,832 6.8 Halifax Bank of...

Tags: Bank, Royal Bank Of Scotland, Online Banking, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-29