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CIO Profile Peter Hambling has just taken on the top IT role at insurance exchange Lloyds of London in May of this year after two years as head of sales delivery for HSBC's UK retail network, where he led a team creating a next-generation retail banking model... [06 Jun 2007]
Ken Harvey
CIO Profile In 2004 Ken Harvey became group general manager and group CIO of HSBC with responsibility for an annual global IT budget of almost $5bn and the development, implementation and operation of the bank's IT systems. [06 Jun 2007]
'It's a wi-fi network - and it's an ad'
News In April this year HSBC kicked off ads sent to mobile phones using near-range Bluetooth wireless technology. In the latest report from Kaspersky Lab, Wardriving in London 2007, the Russian company mentions a growing trend for what it terms... [01 Jun 2007]
Barclays rings in dot-mobi banking
News First Direct and HSBC launched a mobile banking service last year which charges customers a set amount each time they use certain services. High street bank Barclays has launched a mobile phone banking service to extend the reach of its online... [23 May 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Computer says 'no'
Comment My other half, ahead of a recent trip to Mexico, phoned HSBC to tell them we were off to Central America and to ask them not to put a block on any credit or debit cards they saw being used there during the coming fortnight. [10 May 2007]
Visa to kick off contactless cards this autumn
News The Visa contactless card will be launched in partnership with banks including Barclays, HBOS, HSBC and Lloyds TSB. Visa is to launch contactless 'wave and pay' cards this autumn to replace low-value cash transactions across the UK. [04 May 2007]
CIO Essentials: iTunes, Glastonbury tickets and Bluetooth ads
News HSBC pushes mobile ads via Bluetooth I'm not sure HSBC have quite achieved this by sending a first message to ask whether the customer would like a further promotional message. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? [10 Apr 2007]
Banks gang up for MiFID reporting
News Dubbed Boat, the consortium is made up of ABN AMRO, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS. A consortium of nine investment banks has awarded BT and Colt contracts to co-host a data... [04 Apr 2007]
HSBC pushes mobile ads via Bluetooth
News HSBC is trialling Bluetooth technology to send advertising and promotional messages to the mobile phones of people passing two of its London branches. The trial has been running at two HSBC branches in Regent Street and Canary Wharf and the... [02 Apr 2007]
HSBC Deploys Underwriting Weapon to Beat the Competition in the UK Insurance Market
White Paper HSBC is a global financial services giant, with $40 billion in sales, 230,000 employees and 7,000 offices in 81 countries. HSBC wanted to move ahead of stiff competition in the United Kingdom insurance market with a product and IT infrastructure... [16 Mar 2007]
HSBC Deploys Underwriting Weapon to Beat the Competition in the UK Insurance Market
White Paper HSBC is a global financial services giant, with $40 billion in sales, 230,000 employees and 7,000 offices in 81 countries. HSBC wanted to move ahead of stiff competition in the United Kingdom insurance market with a product and IT infrastructure... [16 Mar 2007]
India - the inside track on outsourcing
News A host of household names - Aviva, HSBC and Tesco among them - have set up their own operations in India and many more have outsourced parts of their IT support or even offshored whole business processes such as accounting or HR. [05 Mar 2007]
HSBC Improves Reliability, Security, and Cost Savings for Desktop Standardization Effort
White Paper In 2004, financial group HSBC launched an initiative to reduce the cost of supporting 300,000 desktop computers by 20 percent through rigorous standardization. To help achieve this goal, the company deployed Microsoft System Center solutions as an... [08 Feb 2007]
RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services
News In June HSBC suffered a high-profile security breach at its offshore data processing unit in Bangalore which led to £233,000 being stolen from the accounts of a small number of UK customers. Outsourcing, security and compliance once again dominated... [19 Dec 2006]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in outsourcing
News HSBC, for example, is opening a new 2,000 seat facility in Kolkata and a software development centre in Hyderabad. 2006 in the outsourcing world was once again about India but increasingly also China, as the geographical boundaries became ever more... [11 Dec 2006]
