Crime

Another dimension of discussion at the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery conference was the whole area of hacktivism and cyberattacks. We all know that the cybercriminals are organising cybergangs of cyberteenagers to cyberattack the cyberbanks (ed: isn’t that too many cybers for a Friday morning?). This was illustrated well by the figures I gave yesterday…

The more I think about mobile as an authentication tool, the more attractive it becomes. First you can geolocate customers using mobile.  XYVerify does this using telco masts, rather than mobile devices, as it can then use an independent verification mechanism to determine whether you really have you phone with you.  This is the sort…

I'm just on my way back from a banking conference in Copenhagen, and it surprised me. It surprised me because, as I said to the audience, the Nordic and especially Danish banks had always led innovations in Europe and yet I hadn't spotted a single major innovation in recent years. I had in Poland (Alior…

I'm just on my way back from a banking conference in Copenhagen, and it surprised me. It surprised me because, as I said to the audience, the Nordic and especially Danish banks had always led innovations in Europe and yet I hadn't spotted a single major innovation in recent years. I had in Poland (Alior…

Talking of interesting surveys, I received another one recently about money laundering. This survey was performed by Veris, who interviewed almost 300 senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and compliance executives across 46 countries. Interesting findings: 61% of survey respondents cite an increase in board involvement in monitoring anti money laundering (AML) activities 66% of survey respondents…