December 15, 2014 - Chief information officers (CIOs) in banking have an unprecedented opportunity to take a leading role in their organisations, thanks in part to the rise of "shadow IT". That's one of the paradoxical findings of a new global study published today by BT, based on a survey of almost 1,000 senior IT decision makers in eight regions and six sectors worldwide.
December 15, 2014 - The Seventh Annual Billing Household Survey from Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, revealed that mobile bill payment use is growing rapidly among U.S. consumers, with 27 million U.S. online households now paying at least one bill from their phone, up nearly 70 percent over 2013.
December 11, 2014 - Despite ever-growing volumes of data, just over half of banks still think that not having enough is the greatest obstacle to better risk management, according to a survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
December 11, 2014 - US mobile payments outfit Charge Anywhere has admitted that malware has been lurking on its network for five years, putting unencrypted payment card data at risk.
December 10, 2014 - Some of Wall Street's biggest banks will face tough new cyber-security assessments under plans from New York state's financial services watchdog.
December 9, 2014 - A senior executive at Deutsche Bundesbank has warned that banks will have to spend considerable sums on upgrading their IT systems if they are to cope with insatiable regulatory appetite for new data reporting standards.
December 9, 2014 - With progress towards a single euro payments area well in train, the European Central Bank has identified instant payments with immediate availability of funds as the industry's next frontier for harmonisation and cross-border collaboration. In its second meeting, on 1 December 2014, the Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB), a multi-stakeholder group chaired by the European Central Bank (ECB), decided to step up work on the topics of instant payments in euro, and person-to-person mobile payments and contactless payments.
December 5, 2014 - Rupert Brown, CTO Financial Services at Enterprise NoSQL database platform provider MarkLogic,provides his perspective on what we'll see in the news in 2015.