Information Security

See below for a list of independently written IBS Journal news and feature articles and IBS Intelligence Research vendor profiles, case studies and market analysis related to Information Security in order of publication date.

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Article: Project watch: Legal Entity Identifier – Safety in numbers

02 May 2013

The global roll-out of a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is slowly but surely turning into a reality. The international infrastructure is taking shape, and concerted efforts to distribute LEIs are now well underway. IBS speaks to industry experts...

Article: Third Financial goes public with Itex partnership

26 March 2013

London-based wealth management solutions vendor, Third Financial Software, has gone public on the details of its joint venture with Itex, an IT services provider based in the Channel Islands. The partnership sees the launch of the former's Tercero...

Article: Intelligent Environments unveils software platform for digital finance

30 November 2012

UK-based mobile and online banking software specialist, Intelligent Environments (IE), has launched a new integrated platform for digital financial services, Interact. The new solution, which was unveiled on 29th November 2012, has already...

Article: Case study: Creova – Making waves

28 May 2012

Mobile payment services in North Africa have received a fair bit of attention in the past twelve months or so. French technology firm, Creova, and its various partners are seeking the next M-Pesa-style success story, starting in Tunisia.

Article: Start-up INSS seeks first customers for payments processing

10 May 2012

Greece is not the obvious place to look at present for start-ups but a new company called INSS is seeking to offer payment services, underpinned by the Authentic and Fractals systems from UK-based Alaric.

Article: End of Year Review 2011

19 December 2011

A round-up of some of the key events in the industry over the past year. Read more >>

Article: Who's Bought What? – May 2011

04 May 2011

A round-up of recent orders in the financial technology sector worldwide. Sungard, Misys, Tieto and others have announced new deals. Bank of Ireland, Bank of China, FirstMerit Bank and Qatar Exchange are among the financial institutions that have...

Article: Analysis: Payments Security – Miicard

23 February 2011

The purchase of financial services products online can grind to a halt when it comes to proving identity. Miicard attempts to solve the problem.

Article: Analysis: Payments Security – Visa Codesure

23 February 2011

It's been sat on, dropped, baked, frozen, generally abused and put through its paces during a number of European banking pilots – and now Visa Europe's Codesure card is ready for commercial launch. Was it worth the effort?

Article: Analysis: Cloud computing – Hey you, get off of my cloud

11 January 2011

Cloud computing users can avoid capital expenditure on hardware and software and save on service fees. Sounds ideal, until issues around security, compliance and liability are considered. Should you be worried?

Article: Case Study: Santander – Free for all

11 January 2011

Santander in the UK is offering free security software to its customers to help combat online crime. Is this a gimmick or a genuine expression of concern? IBS talks to the bank's head of information security.

Article: Analysis: Online security – You are the weakest leak!

11 January 2011

Israeli security specialist, Mickey Boodaei, talks to IBS about the current threats to online banking. 

Article: System Security Focus 2011 Overview – Watching, waiting...

11 January 2011

The mark of a skilled hunter is the combination of sharp intellect, infinite patience and the ability to go unnoticed. Defence against such natural weaponry has never been easy. With the banking industry presenting itself as a perfect target for...

Article: IBS Interview: Professor John Walker

11 January 2011

IT security expert, Professor John Walker, combines respected academic thought-leadership with a wealth of hands-on experience. He talks to IBS about current security threats to the banking industry, membership of ISACA, and how lessons can be learned...

Article: Swift to launch secure signature digital key at Sibos

13 September 2010

With the French pilot project for Swift's 3SKey digital signature solution now completed, the product is set to be offered to all banks and corporates from late October onwards.

Article: Analysis: Look before you leap

20 August 2010

What are the main technical difficulties when it comes to introducing biometrics at an MFI? IBS asks a well-known MFI technology consultant to share his experience.

Article: Opportunity International: Opportunity knocks

20 August 2010

Having grown out of spreadsheet-based operations, Opportunity International and its global network of microfinance institutions looked to Temenos' T24 as the next big move in its expansion plans.

Article: Biometrics for microfinance: Body talk

20 August 2010

As any villain, nuclear bunker worker or James Bond fan may attest, biometrics is a system that uses uniquely identifiable physical or behavioural human characteristics as a form of identity, access management and surveillance. In this article we...

Article: Jamii Bora Trust: It's a family affair

20 August 2010

For Kenya-based MFI, Jamii Bora Trust, rapid growth brought a need for automation and reach. The latter stemmed from mobile communication with the back office combined with biometrics.

Article: Faster Payments one year on

28 April 2009

At the end of this month it will be one year since UK Faster Payments went live, but what has the project really achieved? James Ling reports.

Article: Systems Security: Under lock and key

28 April 2009

Protecting systems and the data they contain is a never-ending task – the more sophisticated the protection technology becomes, the more imaginative the intruders become. With the regulators ever more involved, financial institutions themselves are n...

Article: Contingency Planning: Access denied

23 April 2009

There are many reasons why your office may suddenly and unexpectedly become a no-go area: fire, natural disaster, bomb alert – take your pick. But could you still run your treasury operation if access to the building was denied? Heavy spreadsheet u...

Article: Faster Payments, slow adoption

20 February 2009

Faster Payments provision is failing to reach many non-clearing banks and there are still some concerns over payments security. These are among the findings of the latest in a series of surveys covering progress of the UK's new payments initiative.

Article: Corporates facing rise in insider fraud

20 February 2009

Lack of control over corporate cash is a major cause of business fraud, says a new study from KPMG.

Article: Computer Fraud: It's a cracker!

20 November 2008

The information that treasury management systems hold make them an attractive target to criminals. CFS looks at what corporates can do to prevent their financial systems from being cracked.

Article: Biometrics: Security at your fingertips

29 October 2008

When it comes to internal security systems, an increasing number of banks have decided to go down the biometric route. One such institution is Saudi Arabia's Banque Saudi Fransi.

Article: CFS Editor's Note - October 2008

19 September 2008

Given what's at stake if it goes wrong, it's amazing that some businesses still have such a cavalier attitude to risk. Although the saying 'speculate to accumulate' is part and parcel of commerce, surely the current approach to risk should be more...

Article: CoCoNet enhances its bank server, MultiVersa IBS

19 September 2008

CoCoNet, the Germany-based e-banking solution provider for banks and corporates has enhanced its bank server, MultiVersa IBS, with a Hardware Security Module (HSM).

Article: The CFS Interview: A Safe pair of hands

19 September 2008

Ken Lillie has been working in treasury for many years. The fundamentals of the job may have remained the same throughout, but the means have changed considerably, so what should a modern treasurer be looking out for?

Article: Voice signature hub launched for banking sector

02 July 2008

An initiative is under way to establish a global system to facilitate the adoption of biometrics-based voice signatures for use in financial services. In parallel, there is an attempt to put in place another building block, with a push to define...

Article: Iris scanning first at CAB

02 July 2008

Jordan-based Cairo Amman Bank (CAB) has become the first bank in the world to adopt an iris biometric identification management system.

Article: Equens partners for fingerprint authentication

02 July 2008

Equens, the Netherlands-based payments processing utility, and IT-Werke, the German mobile technology company, have teamed up with Albert Heijn, the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, to pilot a fingertip-authentication payments project.

Article: Voice Transact launched as central voice signature hub for financial services

25 June 2008

Can voice signatures become as prevalent as Chip and PIN? A new initiative aims to provide a central utility to turn this vision into reality. We talk to the driver behind this, ex-WorldPay founder, Nick Ogden.

Article: Threesome tie up for prepaid card/mobile phone offering

30 May 2008

Metavante Technologies, a prepaid card payments processor, has announced a mobile money scheme with Monitise. The resulting product will be marketed by Carphone Warehouse, the British high street mobile phone vendor.

Article: BT to push Euroclear secure message service for wider use

01 April 2008

BT Global Financial Services is to take the secure messaging service that it is building for connectivity to Euroclear and position it for wider use in the financial services sector, particularly in the payments arena. BT industry relations manager,...