bank of england
RSS bank of englandAll change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News Commuters all across England could soon be using mobile phones, bank cards and Oyster-style smart ticketing on their journey home via public transport. NFC bank cards are already in... [20 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet Since launching in spring 2009, it has taken part in a major investigation to target a group of suspects using a computer virus to steal money from customers' bank accounts. The strategy will set out... [20 Jul 2009]
Real-world business intelligence
Comment And that still applies now - if you can't send back what the Bank of England needs to know then that is quite a big deal. B&B uses its BI systems for a variety of... [05 Jun 2009]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Originally hailing from the City - Steel spent some time working as an assistant director of Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank). He is passionate about the importance of robust IT... [03 Jun 2009]
Legal Eye: How to save money with offshoring
Comment With the Bank of England's policy of sustained quantitative easing driving down the value of the pound, the impact of foreign exchange... [26 May 2009]
Is offshoring to blame for job losses?
Comment This week thousands of protestors are taking to the streets of London, besieging the Bank of England and generally causing mayhem in response to the G20... [02 Apr 2009]
Police database will make "a very big difference"
News Barclays bank of the future The "sheer complexity" of extracting and sharing information from hundreds of local computer systems used by the 43 forces in... [09 Feb 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New password theory
Comment The access code to the main vault at The Bank of England is probably only two characters which may well be written on a Post-It and visible to all on a notice board close by The password... [22 Dec 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Faster Payments Services
Cheat Sheet The risk on consumer transactions is deemed low enough to risk clearing them outside banking hours, even though the participating banks won't settle their accounts with the Bank of... [22 Sep 2008]
Rorie Devine
CIO Profile Devine has a degree in computer systems and electronics from Kings College and started his career with LogicaCMG, working with clients such as the Bank of England. Devine also led the... [11 Jun 2008]
Betfair CTO moves on
News Devine, who was named one of the UK's top CIOs last year, has a degree in computer systems and electronics from Kings College and started his career with LogicaCMG, working with clients such as the Bank... [21 May 2008]
Retailers to scan discount vouchers by mobile phone
News The two-dimensional barcode - or QR code - printed on the voucher is verified against a central database and the transaction is logged by the system, with the retailer being reimbursed by a direct money transfer to their... [10 Dec 2007]
Cheques gone by 2018?
News It comprises of the great and good within banking, including representatives from many of the high street banks and the Bank of England. A banking... [27 Nov 2007]
Avoiding the next Northern Rock
Comment One can argue that the Bank of England's and the FSA's controls should have been stringent enough to detect the situation. The Bank of... [15 Oct 2007]
Leader: Where was Northern Rock's technology?
Leader The bank borrowed money from the Bank of England to ensure its own solvency in the face of increasing financial turmoil abroad. If such systems existed... [19 Sep 2007]
