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TransFonD Brings Romania's National Banking System Into the Electronic Era With IBM Infrastructure Solution
White Papers To compete in the European Union, Romania needed to upgrade its banking IT infrastructure and implement an electronic interbank payment solution. The solution to this was a scalable, flexible, service oriented architecture and messaging software...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Namibian Banking Industry Cuts Cost of Holding Uncleared Funds With New System
White Papers The solution, which places Namclear and the Namibian banking industry ahead of their competitors in Africa, has substantially reduced the cost of holding uncleared funds overnight in the Namibian banking system.
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Bank of America (Asia): Sun Powers Wireless Banking System
White Papers Bank of America has launched Hong Kong's first wireless banking service, allowing customers to use their WAP-enabled mobile telephones and PDAs for a variety of information and transaction services.s Financial Services Platform (FSP) provides the...
[May 8, 2005, 0:00]
SAP Transaction Banking: Measurements of IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS
White Papers Bank posting and balancing, often called core banking, are crucial to all commercial banks. Historically, it was one of the first parts of a banking operation to be automated with computers. According to some sources, core banking today is mainly...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
HSBC system fault causes account-access chaos
News HSBC customers were denied access to their bank accounts at the weekend after an upgrade to a telephone-banking system caused a fault in its database. HSBC apologised to its customers saying the fault had arisen after an upgrade of its telephone...
[February 26, 2008, 12:29]
New Serbian Bank Goes From Planning to Launch in Three Weeks
White Papers National Savings Bank of Serbia (NSBS), a new retail bank in the former Yugoslav republic, needed to implement a core banking system in just three weeks, to take on 3.5 million customer accounts. Pexim (a Microsoft certified partner) provided the...
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Kuveyt Turk Bank Eliminates Paperwork and Accelerates Human Resources Processes
White Papers Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank aims to bring diligence to the interest-free banking system, and to research new fields of investment. The challenge was to integrate HR systems with the banking system to automate financial transactions and enable...
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
Banking on iSeries Systems
White Papers Installed in over 16000 banks worldwide, the IBM eServer iSeries system has the world's most diverse independent software vendor (ISV) banking solutions portfolio. The iSeries system offers bank executives unparalleled freedom to choose the best...
[December 1, 2005, 0:00]
Service-Oriented Architecture for Leading Swiss IT Outsourcer to Financial Services Industry
White Papers A stable platform based on BEA WebLogic and BEA AquaLogic integrates the diverse system landscape of banking IT within a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and overcomes the dependence on the cost-intensive mainframe environment.
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
Solomon Mutual Bank Runs an Identity-Aware Business With BMC Identity Management
White Papers With this broader Web access came the need for a system that would allow secure yet simple access to Solomon Mutual's online banking system. To meet the demand for online banking services, Solomon Mutual Bank chose BMC Identity Management to...
[January 19, 2007, 0:00]
IBM brings its middleware to Linux
News IBM made its integrated middleware platform for the government, retail and banking sector available on the Linux operating system on Friday. Jollans said the reason for targeting banking and retail is because they have large networks of distributed...
[October 1, 2004, 12:40]
Security firm U-turns on banking breach
News UPDATE: Security firm TrustDefender has this morning withdrawn claims it made last Thursday that seemed to "prove" that the SMS-based two-factor authentication system used by many online banking systems was vulnerable to attack.
[May 4, 2007, 11:13]
Royal Bank of Scotland rolls out chip and PIN
News The chip and PIN terminal works in conjunction with the RBS online banking system. The chip and PIN terminal then uses this information to generate a unique "response code" which the customer then feeds into the online banking system to authorise...
[May 4, 2007, 10:34]
Increased Business Agility Puts Philippine National Bank Ahead of Competitors
White Papers PNB selected the FLEXCUBE core banking system from i-flex solutions who sold, delivered and are implementing the system. For the Philippines, PNB's Kirchman Bankway International core banking applications from Metavante Corporation were running on...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
HSBC fights phishing with authentication token
News Banking giant HSBC announced on Monday that it is rolling out a two-factor authentication programme for its UK business customers. The tokens all have slightly different algorithms that generate different numbers every thirty seconds, according to...
[April 10, 2006, 16:10]
Experts question Java mobile smartcard security
News The more prevalent a system is, and especially if people are relying on it for things like banking transactions, the more people are going to try to hack, break into and manipulate it. Sun Microsystems revealed Tuesday that its JavaCard...
[November 17, 1999, 17:04]
Bank's smartcard trial for business only
News Lloyds TSB's smartcard banking trial, which will enable much greater security for Internet transactions than is possible for conventional Internet banking, will initially be for businesses only, the bank said today.
[February 23, 2001, 13:14]
NatWest says: Yahoo!
News Asked whether NatWest customers would be worried about using an online banking system in the light of recent high profile cracks a spokesman said, "if you're referring to Hotmail, well, Hotmail isn't a bank.
[September 17, 1999, 14:18]
Barclays claims card-reader has eliminated fraud
News Barclays digital banking director Sean Gilchrist said the system was designed to be easy to use and highly secure. Barnaby Davis, director of electronic banking at Barclays, said last year that the arrangement was intended to limit the damage that...
[July 18, 2008, 17:04]
Open, Flexible, and Scalable Infrastructure for Leading Polish Bank
White Papers Multiple, tightly integrated critical applications are now connected within the Galaxy middleware system built as Service-Oriented Architecture, including the bank's Internet banking platform, corporate banking, call center, and an IVR interface.
[September 21, 2006, 1:00]
