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Egg isn't the only bank cracked
News According to reports the National Crime Squad (NCS) believes that Egg may not be the only Internet bank to have been targeted by criminals. Tuesday's arrests were the result of a six-month investigation into attempts to create multiple accounts at...
[August 24, 2000, 12:52]
Exclusive: Egg's online security cracks
News A day after the Halifax admitted to a flaw in its online security, the Internet bank, Egg has been compromised by a customer who gained complete access to another customer's Egg bank account. Egg recently confessed to mailing out credit card...
[November 30, 1999, 16:42]
Exclusive: Egg admits security breach
News UK Online bank Egg, blamed "human error" Wednesday for the security breach which allowed a user to access another customer's account. UK manager of Internet bank first-e Richard Thackray expressed his sympathy for Egg.
[December 1, 1999, 13:26]
Egg says rich clients are the future online
News Online bank Egg is considering a move away from pure Web interfaces for its customers, according to chief information officer Tom Llube, in a shift that will have implications for developers as well as customers.
[January 29, 2004, 12:46]
News Burst: Egg still making security blunders
News Online bank Egg is still mailing out credit card numbers and other personal information to its customers via regular, unencrypted email. A number of concerned Egg customers have contacted ZDNet complaining that their credit card details are still...
[November 22, 1999, 11:38]
Egg investigates service outage
News UK Internet bank Egg has been unable to offer an online banking service to its customers since the beginning of the week, having suffered problems with its back-end infrastructure. The spokeswoman says that Egg does not know when the problem will...
[January 25, 2001, 8:40]
News Burst: Egg losses rise, yet investors cheer
News Pioneering UK Internet bank Egg revealed Monday that its losses have risen by seven percent over the last nine months, but promises that it is on track to reach profitability in a yearÂ’s time. The bank's growing losses could fuel growing concerns...
[October 16, 2000, 10:14]
A Year Ago: Egg's online security cracks
News A day after the Halifax admitted to a flaw in its online security, the Internet bank, Egg has been compromised by a customer who gained complete access to another customer's Egg bank account. Egg recently confessed to mailing out credit card...
[November 28, 2000, 7:42]
Prudential cracks Egg sell-off
News UK insurance firm Prudential has agreed to sell Egg, its online bank. Prudential announced on Monday morning that it has accepted an offer of £575m for Egg from Citigroup, the US financial services giant.
[January 29, 2007, 12:35]
Pioneering Internet bank to float
News Egg, the Internet bank, is set for a multi-billion pound float, it was announced on Wednesday. Prudential said Egg customers who signed up before 22 February will be able to participate in the offering.
[February 23, 2000, 14:36]
Smile lets users cash in on the Net
News The Co-operative Bank is following Egg and others in launching an online bank, Smile.co.uk. The success of Egg, which attracted a surprisingly high number of well-off middle-aged customers, has shown a demand for online financial services.
[October 1, 1999, 17:29]
Co-operative smiles upon cyberspace
News The Co-operative Bank Thursday followed Egg and others in the official launch of its online bank, Smile.co.uk. The success of Egg, which attracted a surprisingly high number of well-off middle-aged customers, has shown a demand for online financial...
[October 28, 1999, 12:19]
Security calamity shakes US banks
News Prudential's online bank Egg also uses Friserv banking software although this is not accessible via the public Internet and so was not exposed by this incident. According to Egg's chief technical officer Pete Marsden this dire exposure of bank...
[September 25, 2000, 9:15]
Online banks failing customers
News Gladman points to Egg, Smile the Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax as the worst offending banks. A spokeswoman for Egg -- the online bank set up by Prudential -- hits back, describing the report as "misleading".
[July 6, 2000, 17:18]
Lloyds TSB to launch European Internet bank
News The new pan-European operation will compete with Internet-only banking services such as Prudential's Egg and Halifax's upcoming Greenfield. Lloyds TSB said that it was even unsure at this stage whether the new operation would be in the form of a...
[January 4, 2000, 12:37]
Egg says rich clients are the future online
Talkback This maybe relevant to "day traders" but Egg is a retail not a stock broker. Egg must not tie you down to a specific PC, platform (OS), else this will be a fad. Finally, is the title of the article meant to allude to Egg being visionary?
[February 11, 2004, 10:27]
Online banks under legal scrutiny
News Other banks, such as Prudential's Egg (which has had security issues of its own), take the controversial measure of making customers liable for any damages that occur before the customer notifies them their credit card has been misused.
[August 2, 2000, 10:10]
Jane Wakefield: Take me back to the good old days of BT
News Prudential-owned online bank Egg was caught on the hop as an astonished customer found himself staring at the account details of a perfect stranger when he logged on to his online account. They will be delighted to hear that online banking suffered...
[December 3, 1999, 16:53]
Egg.com cracks popularity poll
News Online bank Egg.com has come top of the pile of Britain's favourite financial Web sites in a report released Tuesday. Egg is the only pure-Internet UK banking venture to feature in the top ten listing of financial Web sites.
[July 19, 2000, 10:00]
Egg will break even in Q4
News Internet bank Egg is on target to break even in Q4, according to a trading statement Thursday. Despite the positive news analysts believe Egg's future profitability depends on its ability to sell a range of financial products.
[December 15, 2000, 15:31]
