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News Well global bank HSBC is using analytics technology to spot fraudulent activity in payment-card and online transactions. Meanwhile, B&Q is using data mining to root out internal fraud and reduce stock... [08 Jun 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News The cases include a suspected insider trader at a bank where €95m had gone missing and a father and daughter accused of defrauding Britons of £35m in a boiler-room scam. Bowron said: "The NFRC will as never before ensure... [25 Mar 2009]
Photos: Barclays bank of the future
Photo For instance, the table logs all customer interactions and the bank will get detailed data about what sort of information customers are searching for on the device. A spokesman for the... [05 Jan 2009]
Indian outsourcers shore up their defences
Comment Mumbai-based outsourcer Syntel, whose customers include American Express and State Street Bank, says it has set up a command centre that will come alive in the event of an attack. Client... [10 Dec 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland This obviously would have a use in any large data centre. The Cern nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is helping the tech industry... [17 Oct 2008]
HSBC in CIO-COO mash-up
News HSBC is combining its CIO and Group COO roles into a single position, a move that comes as the bank unites technology and global operations in the hunt for cost savings. Geoghegan said by combining tech and global... [30 Sep 2008]
Robots on the beat by 2084
News Chips in the brains of these tin guardians would give them instant access to bank accounts, tax, motoring, shopping and criminal records, allowing them to instantly identify and determine who people were, according to... [13 Aug 2008]
Citizens use YouTube to keep gov't in check
News Photos: The building of a data centre Eurim warns that simply replacing face-to-face services with internet access risks isolating the services from the most vulnerable, citing examples of the elderly... [31 Jul 2008]
Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Not in an uncontrolled way but they've built their own infrastructure, perhaps sometimes their own network, their own data centre storage, their own space, their own hosting. David Lister Chief... [29 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo Geo recently announced further extension of its fibre network, connecting into a major data centre on London's South Bank. And Icelandic Telco provider Siminn uses the network to provide... [22 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland He said: "Given the BES needs to access the data store from the mail server, obviously that's quite a high privilege. Maarten Van Horenbeeck, security researcher at... [17 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News The move is inevitable but we have to ensure that the UK is maintained as a centre of excellence and we have that commitment from the bank. More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing... [14 Jul 2008]
London data centres hit by credit crunch
News London's data centre sector has suffered a downturn, with no corporates taking up space in the capital this year. Businesses chose London for just four per cent of the data... [04 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland By setting up a mirrored data centre for disaster recovery, the company reduced the time to recover systems and applications in the event of an... [20 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News It also warns of bank accounts being taken over by fraudsters tricking call centre workers, a 37 per cent rise in the cost of phone, internet and mail order fraud and the threat from chip and PIN devices... [06 Jun 2008]
