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Cheat Sheet: Galileo
Cheat Sheet The European transport Commissioner, Jacques Barrot, has suggested the system could be used for border control, financial operations and surveillance of infrastructures. What's a 16th century scientist got to do with technology? [28 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: MiFID
Cheat Sheet MiFID stands for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Most companies that are involved in trading in financial instruments and businesses that deal in advisory services. And many players - including the Financial Services Authority (FSA... [05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Itil
Cheat Sheet Version 3 also provides information specific to certain vertical markets, such as financial services and retail, and improves on its relevance to small organisations. Start off by telling me what Itil stands for. [05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs
Cheat Sheet This includes financial traders who require huge amounts of processing muscle to cope with the vast amount of data they deal with day to day. As we mentioned, blades are big in financial services. That's not entirely wrong but the term 'blade' can... [24 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Business intelligence
Cheat Sheet Most typically this could be any business with customers or users that wants to better understand their behaviour - whether they are selling books, offering financial services or supplying electricity into the home. [03 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Basel II
Cheat Sheet It was created to make the financial world a little safer and more stable to deal in. The Financial Services Authority sums it up - "It will do so by seeking to ensure that the financial resources held by a firm are commensurate with the risks... [22 Aug 2006]
Cheat Sheet: SOA
Cheat Sheet One real-world example is the London Stock Exchange, which has used an SOA to enable its systems to communicate directly with those of the various financial firms it must work with. Financial services companies in particular seemed pretty excited... [08 Aug 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet Financial institutions and Wall Street staples in particular have been early adopters of the technology. Sounds like something out of the Matrix. What is it really? It's a sort of Lego-style approach to computing - usually supercomputing. [05 Jan 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Phishing
Cheat Sheet Mark Sunner, CTO of MessageLabs, says: "Phishing scams are really quite sophisticated - it's high level social engineering and for individual users the financial losses can be huge. Phishing? Isn't that spelled wrong? [25 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Sarbanes-Oxley
Cheat Sheet Kailash Ambwani, CEO of secure IM provider FaceTime, believes IM is "mission critical" to most major financial institutions but he said: "These guys don't have in place the necessary security, accountability, logging or archiving to make those IM... [10 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Offshoring
Cheat Sheet UK firms using offshore facilities are bound by UK data protection laws to ensure the same level of protection as if it were stored here, while financial firms have to comply with Financial Services Authority regulations. [11 May 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
Cheat Sheet The financial sector is looking at biometrics as a way of verifying your identity and adding a further layer of security, such as at cash points or point of sale equipment where a biometric 'signature' would be needed to complete a transaction. [20 Apr 2004]
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