building society
RSS building societyNottingham Building Society to rip and replace systems
News Nottingham Building Society is about to begin final testing of a replacement core system for its loans business ahead of rollout over the next few months. The building society filed profits before tax of more than £8m in the 2007 financial year... [11 Mar 2008]
AppLabs Case Study: Derbyshire Building Society
White Paper Derbyshire Building Society is a UK top 10 building society. It is one of the remaining truly mutual building societies; the company slogan is "Local Matters". Derbyshire's existing core customer administration system was approximately fifteen... [24 Feb 2008]
Laptop theft breaks data protection law
News This contrasts sharply with punishment meted out to the Nationwide Building Society, which was fined £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority last year, over the theft of a company laptop containing confidential customer details from an... [21 Feb 2008]
Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008
Photo The speakers included European commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding (far right). Just in case Barcelona's residents hadn't realised the mobile industry had come to town, building-sized ads broadcast its messages from on high. [18 Feb 2008]
The West Bromwich Building Society Improves Cross-Selling
White Paper Throughout its 150-year history, The West Brom has put its customers first. During the 1990s, however, the company had to overcome numerous challenges to continue fulfilling this commitment - challenges such as fragmented customer data... [08 Feb 2008]
Major Building Society Powers Branch Transformation With IP Telephony
White Paper The twin pressures of business growth and increasing competition meant that Coventry Building Society needed to adopt an innovative and cost-effective approach to investment in its contact centre and branch network. [10 Jan 2008]
Discovery Services - Enabling RFID Traceability in EPCglobal Networks
White Paper The work discussed in this paper focuses on providing a first implementation of a simple, scalable infrastructure for building Discovery Services. The EPCglobal consortium defines standards to enable data sharing of electronic product code related... [08 Jan 2008]
Technology Impact on Society: Building Stronger Communities Through Technology
White Paper Cisco Systems highlights how technology and the Internet are helping to build strong, productive and sustainable communities around the world, particularly in the areas of education and healthcare. [07 Jan 2008]
Principality Seizes Technology Opportunity as a Result of New Mortgage Regulations
White Paper New regulations in the mortgage and insurance industries in the U.K.had a significant effect on Principality Building Society - the largest independent financial institution in Wales. Rather than simply ensuring compliance, the organisation seized... [18 Dec 2007]
Norwich Union Life fined for data control 'weaknesses'
News Paul Davie, founder of Secerno, said: "Breaches such as the HMRC's loss of two discs affected 25 million people, while Leeds Building Society recently lost sensitive data relating to workers' payslips and this month, the DVLA compromised 6,000... [17 Dec 2007]
Building society installs anti-money laundering tech
News Newcastle Building Society is about to implement an anti-money-laundering (AML) system to comply with FSA regulations and ensure quality of service to third parties. The building society currently carries out transaction monitoring and exception... [11 Dec 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to have a society where bank cards had been replaced by iris identification, where passports were a thing of the past and school dinners were paid for using vein recognition. [23 Nov 2007]
Britannia cuts call queues
News Building society Britannia has rolled out a call management system at its Bristol call centre. Britannia contact centre analyst Gerard Hearson told silicon.com that prior to the introduction of the system, the building society had experienced long... [10 Oct 2007]
Faster bank transfers delayed to next year
News The 13 financial organisations are: Abbey, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, Citibank, Co-operative Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, National Australia Group, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Bank, Northern Rock and Royal Bank of Scotland Group. [15 Aug 2007]
How to insure your IT
Comment When the Nationwide Building Society recently suffered the theft of an employee's laptop containing unencrypted customer data, it found out just how quantifiable its risk was - the FSA fined it £980,000. [17 Jul 2007]
