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Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News The Commission, which acts as a regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales, was tasked with increasing the take up of online services in the sector in 2006. Last year, the site was used for 70 per cent of all annual financial... [24 Jul 2008]
Streamlining the Creation, Management, and Delivery of Content
White Paper State Super Financial Services (SSFS) is one of Australia's leading financial planning organisations with more than $3.4 billion in funds under advice. SSFS needed to find a knowledge management solution so that every SSFS employee received the... [23 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News Freelance services website PeoplePerHour.com says it currently has 3,500 people offering work in at least one IT-related category, with more than a third (35 per cent) also in full time employment - with this figure rising each month. [22 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News The report said: "Open-source development can benefit from private industry practices - notably those created by financial services organisations and larger independent software vendors. The study, carried out by application security consultant... [22 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment This information is readily available, just as credit information is readily available to institutions that offer financial services. Why should companies, healthcare services and the authorities have to guess? [21 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Another fan of open source, Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at financial services company Voca pointed out the huge legacy of innovation that has come about through the open source approach. CIOs are split on the controversial issue of adopting... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Commenting on the level of security in different industry sectors Jim Hart, manager with Symantec managed security services, said security is usually tightest within the financial sector, due mainly to the amount of regulation the sector faces. [21 Jul 2008]
Number of free ATMs to increase by a third
News The initiative run by HM Treasury and the ATM Working Group was set up 18 months ago to offset the increase in charging ATMs and currently enables around 1.3 million UK citizens to avoid paying charges or travelling outside their community to... [18 Jul 2008]
AWD's Flexible Architecture and ease-of-use Enables IFDS to Offer Innovative, Shared Service Models to Clients
White Paper International Financial Data Services (IFDS) Limited in the UK has 29 investment clients, and services over 5 million unit holdings, which represents approximately 30% market share in the UK. The challenges facing IFDS in achieving the objective... [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Helps to Reduce Information Search and Retrieval Time
White Paper A global brokerage firm with offices located in major financial centers around the world had a critical need to get their documentation under control. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server offered search, document versioning, audit trail, expiration... [18 Jul 2008]
Rapid Response Visa and Getronics Deliver Efficiency With CARE
White Paper Visa EU deployed Getronics for the project as its proven track record in the development of solutions for the financial services sector. In order to be competitive themselves, the financial institutions must be able to provide fast, effortless... [18 Jul 2008]
Genesis Financial Solutions Uses Document Locator to Create a Paperless Office Environment
White Paper As a financial services company, Genesis is required to file and manage a lot of paper documents including checks, loan agreements, contracts, payment records, equipment titles, and bankruptcy documents. [18 Jul 2008]
Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
White Paper City leaders must often balance competing goals, including the desire to maximize the area in which wireless services will be available, to maximize competition among providers, to minimize subsidies from government agencies and non-profit... [18 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News A spokeswoman for Barclays said: "Barclays ambition is to become one of a handful of universal banks leading the global financial services industry, helping our customers and clients throughout the world to achieve their goals. [14 Jul 2008]
InfoTech Report - Strategies for IP Telephony Evaluation and Migration
White Paper These enterprises span financial services, education, and professional services markets. InfoTech conducted in-depth interviews with three enterprises regarding their IP telephony deployments. The intent of the research was to focus on the... [14 Jul 2008]
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