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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Up to two-thirds of the staff at Bletchley Park were young women and Osborne was one of up to 400 other Wrens at Woburn Abbey, home to the Duke of Bedford, but her accommodation was less grand than might be expected. [05 Nov 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes will join Highams Park in London as the locations for the fibre dry-run, the telco announced yesterday. BT has revealed more details on its planned brownfield pilots of fibre-to-the-home... [02 Oct 2009]
Bupa in rude health with new CIO
News Before her stint at the publisher, Jetha was also responsible for IT at Abbey National where she was a board member. Private healthcare company Bupa has appointed a new CIO. Yasmin Jetha will take over as the company's... [16 Sep 2009]
Online banking: Which bank is the most secure?
News Computing, while Abbey and Halifax were given the wooden spoon for their poor security. We found that the online accounts of Abbey and Halifax have weaker visible measures in place than their rivals. Not... [28 Aug 2009]
UBS gets new CTO
News Sany will take over the CTO job from Scott Abbey, who has been with the bank for five years and generated "significant cost savings" during his tenure, UBS said. UBS has appointed a new CTO, who will take over the bank's... [09 Jan 2009]
Photos: Google receives a visit from the Queen
Photo The Queen has a history of embracing technology, in 1953 she allowed television cameras inside Westminster Abbey during a state occasion for her Coronation and in 1976 she became the first monarch to send an email during... [16 Oct 2008]
Free wi-fi for Scottish market town
News It is hoped the scheme will attract business travellers and tourists and raise awareness of local services and attractions, most notably the town's 12th century abbey and what claims to be the oldest working hotel in... [13 Aug 2008]
Yasmin Jetha
CIO Profile Before joining the FT, Jetha was a board member of the Abbey National Bank. After leaving Abbey National at the end of 2004, Jetha pursued wider interests including becoming governor at the University of... [11 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment At the end of the day the managing director for Lloyds Abbey Life knew a lot more about his business than I did so the notion that I could somehow tell him what to do was farcical. Whether at work or play Claire Hamon,... [13 May 2008]
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... [15 Aug 2007]
Faster payments plan slows down
News The 13 financial organisations - which account for more than 95 per cent of all payments made in the UK - are: Abbey, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, Citibank, Co-operative Bank, Northern Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB,... [13 Jul 2007]
An Innovative Approach to Closed Fund Insurance Administration
White Paper UK life and pensions company, Abbey Life, was under pressure to cut the cost of maintaining and upgrading legacy processing systems. By outsourcing its processing and administration systems to the specially formed Unisys... [02 Jun 2007]
Poor data hinders corporate social responsibility drive
News Abbey Ling, an assessor at GoodCorporation, a for-profit company that runs a CSR accreditation scheme, said CSR is rising up the corporate agenda as organisations realise there are business benefits. CIOs are failing to... [04 Apr 2007]
Abbey races to fix online payment flaw
News High street bank Abbey is racing to fix a flaw in its online business banking platform that has resulted in some customer payments going to the wrong accounts. Abbey said it has identified the source of... [20 Jun 2006]
Five-year court battle bankrupts former City IT manager
News Johnson claims he lost his job at Perot Systems after the Abbey bank told his employer he had fraudulently applied for a bank account using a false address history and issued a fraud alert on him to other financial... [09 Jun 2006]
