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- Find out how to "Wow" the customer while managing costs
- Current bank trends indicate profit margins are flat. Retaining top bank customers is becoming harder and harder. Is your financial institution ready to buck this trend? With seven thought-provoking white papers, the IBM Front Office eKit for Financial Institutions can help. With the eKit, you'll learn...
- Tags: Bank, Financial Company, IBM Corp., Financial Services
- Resource centers 2008-02-20
- Identity Protection Services: Security Solutions for Financial Institutions
- Perimeter offers an industry leading suite of identity protection services that include anti-phishing and pharming services to protect the most valuable asset to any financial institution - its customers.
- Tags: Pharming, Financial, Financial Company, Perimeter, Phishing, Financial Services, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Fighting emerging threats. How to combat man-in-the-middle and Trojan attacks
- Phishing still remains the main method that fraudsters use to attack financial institutions; it is simple and cost-effective, but still yields lucrative results. However, as financial institutions across the globe continue to deploy strong authentication, fraudsters are also findnig more sophisticated ways to launch attacks. As the fraud landscapre evolves,...
- Tags: Financial, Financial Company, Trojan Horse, Fraudster, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms
- White papers 2007-02-01
- S. Korean addiction to ActiveX stalls Vista adoption
- South Koreans are being advised by their Government to postpone their adoption of Windows Vista until theyre sure theyll be able to bank online and other web activities. The problem it seems is that Korea has almost universally adopted ActiveX technology for all of their "online banks, portals, game...
- Tags: Security, Infrastructure, News, Desktop, Browsers, ActiveX
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- IBM Financial Markets Industry Models Support for Trade Processing in the 'On Demand' Era
- Investors in securities markets want to know that their order will be executed in a timely fashion at the best possible price and that the product will be delivered on time, at the agreed upon terms. They need to be assured that they will not lose their investment because of...
- Tags: Financial, Industry, Financial Company, IBM Corp., Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2007-01-19
- Automate and Engage to Fulfill the True Potential of the Internet
- As Internet usage in the U.K. grows beyond 60% and the Internet has become an essential tool both for research and shopping for the retail consumer, banks and financial institutions hereafter referred as financial institutions or firms are placing a high premium on the online channel. Perceptions about the Internet...
- Tags: Financial, Financial Company, International Data Group, Internet, Financial Services
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Google online auctions for employee stock options
- GOOG is a powerful recruiting incentive for Google. Google is now embarking on an innovative online auction process enabling Googlers to sell vested stock options:Under the Transferable Stock Option program, employees will still be able to exercise their options, but will also be able to sell their options to financial...
- Tags: Value at Risk, financial company, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Google, Culture
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Inconvenience of two-factor security pushes banks to "single factor plus" for online banking
- For the nation's banking industry, the clock is ticking. By Dec 31, banks and financial institutions had better move to something more than just user ID and password-level security (known as single-factor authentication) to grant customers online access to their bank accounts or else. Or else what? Well,...
- Tags: authentication, financial company, security
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- Will banks make federal Web security deadline?
- By way of its sister publication ComputerWorld, InfoWorld has a report card on how banks are doing in terms of meeting a multifactor online banking authentication deadline that was issued by the Feds last October. But after reading the report, you can't help but wonder if the banking industry...
- Tags: bank, authentication, online banking
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Phishing is a problem for banks to solve
- Phishing is a problem for banks to solveSome banks already actingYou mentioned Bank of America. I am a customer and they have acted so that i will never enter my password prior to receiving something picture and phrase created by me which tells me that i am on their...
- Tags: Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Financial services, Spam, blog, online banking, bank, identity theft, online banking functionality, financial, financial company, phishing
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- U.S. financial industry enlisted to police online vice
- Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup and PayPal are participating in the newly formed “Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography,” according to a report in USAToday.com:The financial institutions will report child porn sites they discover on the Web to a central tip line, slated to expand next...
- Tags: credit card, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- Anti-Money Laundering Reappraised: The Benefits of a Holistic, Risk Based Approach
- The notion that a risk based approach to Anti-Money Laundering AML has forced a reappraisal of strategy is a slightly ambiguous one in today's climate, particularly so given that large financial institutions have now been pursuing such an approach for quite some time. Indeed the current hype surrounding risk-based responses...
- Tags: Risk, Benefit, Financial Company, SAS Institute, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Management
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Financial Institution Gains a More Detailed Overview of IT Assets and Operational Costs
- Garanti Technology provides information technology services to Turkish financial institutions that are part of the Doguš Group conglomerate. Administrators wanted to be able to consolidate reports from MOM 2005 and SMS 2003 to conduct detailed comparisons of system performance at different locations. Upper management wanted a way to access information...
- Tags: Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, Financial, Information Technology, Financial Company, Microsoft Corp., Garanti Technology, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Financial Services, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management
- Case studies 2006-04-01
- Encryption & the FFIEC's IT Security Handbook: Facilitating GLBA Compliance
- When developing and implementing their information security programs, financial institutions use guidelines set out in the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's FFIEC Information Security Booklet. The Federal Trade Commission has broad authority to enforce the rules set out under Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act GLBA, and the Handbook. This paper examines the objectives...
- Tags: Information Security, IT Security, Financial, Information Technology, Financial Company, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Encryption, FTC, Regulations, Security, Government
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Will BofA's SiteKey thwart phishing attempts?
- If they haven't noticed already, customers of Bank of America's online banking services will start getting prompted to enter what the financial institution is referring to as "sitekey" information. The last time I wrote about BofA see BofA TV ad explains why IT matters, it took over a week...
- Tags: financial, Bank of America Corp., financial company, e-mail, phishing
- Blog posts 2006-02-13
- Mitigating financial services risk with Component Business Modeling (CBM)
- Learn how IBM's Component Business Modeling CBM methodology is helping financial institutions take on the make-or-break challenge of managing risk. As they struggle to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, the USA PATRIOT Act, International Financial Reporting Standards and other industry and governmental regulations, financial institutions are faced with mounting costs. CBM can...
- Tags: Financial, Financial Service, Financial Company, IBM Corp., Financial Services, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Safeguarding Financial Privacy
- The purpose of this whitepaper is to illustrate how enterprise single sign-on can help financial institutions oversee service providers in compliance with the GLBA while ensuring only authenticated employees access financial data. The GLBA covers financial institutions regardless of whether they have one hundred customers or one million, offer online...
- Tags: Financial, Passlogix, Financial Company, Privacy, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2005-07-21
- Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
- Business Continuity Planning is the process whereby financial institutions ensure the maintenance or recovery of operations, including services to customers, when confronted with adverse events such as natural disasters, technological failures, human error, or terrorism. Mirror Activator is a Sybase software solution that allows a financial institution to combine the...
- Tags: Financial, Business Continuity Planning, Financial Company, Business Continuity, Sybase Inc., Disaster Recovery, Business Security, Databases, Data Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-07-06
- Formula for Disaster: Banks plus Spyware
- A few months ago I went to our local credit union to add my name to my wife's checking account. Like most credit unions the atmosphere was relaxed and neighborly. The credit union employee that helped us sat at a desk out in the open and we snuggled...
- Tags: financial company
- Blog posts 2005-03-17
- Abandoning *ix
- Abandoning *ixIf I were a financial institution...Given all of the possible reasons for a financial institution to switch to Linux, doing so because IT vendors are moving that way is not the main motivation. The main reason I would choose to use Linux would be to have complete control over...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Unix, SCO Group Inc., financial company, financial
- Discussion threads 2005-01-31
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