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German Red Cross Banks On IBM EServer PSeries As Its Life-Saver
White Papers Part of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK, the German Red Cross), the DRK Blutspendedienst Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen is a charitable organisation providing medical support. With different applications running on various platforms in each of its main...
[October 8, 2004, 0:00]
US Report: Mastercard, Visa In Trouble Over Smart Cards
News In August, McDonald's selected VeriFone Inc.to deploy smart-card systems in 55 of its German restaurants. The German government has also rolled out more than 80 million cards to record patients' critical records and insurance information.
[October 8, 1998, 9:20]
A Secure Solution For Credit Risk Assessment
White Papers Working in collaboration with 40 German financial institutions, the challenge for Bank-Verlag was to develop a flexible, standardized and cost-efficient tool that meets the new regulations. Basel II requires banks to change the way in which they...
[September 21, 2006, 0:00]
Prominent German Bank To Deploy Business Continuity Solution As Part Of Evolution To Cisco Data Centre Architecture
White Papers The Frankfurt-am-Main based German private bank deployed the Cisco MDS 9509 director to underpin its business continuity infrastructure between data centres in Frankfurt. BHF-BANK is one of Germany's most prestigious private banks.
[December 3, 2007, 23:00]
Fax Error Costs EC €100m Court Case
News On Thursday the European Court of First Instance ruled in favour of five German banks which had been fined a total of €100m by the EC. With no other legal argument from the EC, the court had to rule in favour of the five banks.
[October 15, 2004, 15:05]
Microsoft Money Withdrawn In Germany Due To Euro Bug
News Microsoft has withdrawn the German versions of Money 99, Money 99 Plus Update and Money 99 Plus from the German market due to a problem residing in the inaccurate conversion of the euro and linking it to Online-Banking.
[February 1, 1999, 14:05]
A Year Ago: Day 1 - 'euro Going Smoothly'
News The biggest surprise the euro has so far thrown up is how quickly it has replaced the German mark as the currency to deal with against the US dollar. The problems banks and financial institutions face include:
[January 4, 2000, 6:04]
Day 1 - 'euro Going Smoothly'
News The biggest surprise the euro has so far thrown up is how quickly it has replaced the German mark as the currency to deal with against the US dollar. The problems banks and financial institutions face include:
[January 4, 1999, 15:12]
Haxdoor Trojan Claims Thousands Of UK Victims
News There was a large amount of [Haxdoor] spam sent to German people last month, disguised as bills. Passwords and log-in information are specifically collected by prioritising data strings containing certain keywords, such as the names of banks.
[October 11, 2006, 16:15]
Five Arrested Over Phishing Fraud
News German police have arrested five men in Bonn on suspicion of stealing €30,000 through phishing fraud and Trojan horse attacks. According to German news Web site Heise.de, phishers targeted a large number of Postbank customers in Trojan horse and...
[December 20, 2004, 14:25]
Latest Bid Could See BT Split Up
News A consortium backed by a German bank has offered to buy BT's fixed-line business -- leading to suggestions that the telco is close to breaking up. The group is backed by West LB, a German investment bank, and is thought to have made a bid of £18bn...
[August 7, 2001, 12:05]
Fitting Passports With Biometric Data
News Infineon, the German chipmaking giant, has been active in moving the technology out of the labs and has been bidding on the various passport projects. Banks and other institutions are likely to use the high-tech documents to provide better...
[August 18, 2004, 15:45]
Sun Creates Server Safety Zones
News The German government, for example, has passed legislation that banks geographically disperse their processing centre. Sun Microsystems has come up with a way to insulate computer networks from fires, floods and bomb attacks: split up the machines...
[October 29, 2002, 10:48]
Channel 'haven' Hits Troubled Waters
News Another scheme included working with German investors to build a $70m (£43.47m) hotel and gambling complex -- a scheme that fell apart after the Germans took over the fortress in 1978, and Bates regained control in a dramatic helicopter raid at dawn.
[August 5, 2003, 9:30]
EC Telecoms Overhaul Sparks Alarm
News Reding told a German IT trade association yesterday: “I call on member states to prove they really mean what they say in their Sunday speeches about growth and jobs. The regulator will resemble the European System of Central Banks in structure...
[June 29, 2006, 15:50]
Data Security Is Key To UK Consumers' Trust
News This compares to 42 percent of French respondents, 40 percent of Belgians and 35 percent of German consumers. The research also reveals the majority of Europeans believe it is acceptable for trusted organisations — such as banks and government...
[October 11, 2007, 8:38]
Mondex Banks On Land Of The Rising Sun
News Compared to other electronic purse projects -- such as the German Gelt Karte e-cash initiative - Mondex take up has been poor, according to Andrew Phillips, semi-conductor applications group analyst at Dataquest "Some 50 million Gelt Karte smart...
[February 15, 1999, 17:12]
IBM Snags £1.6bn IT Services Deal
News The German bank and Big Blue on Wednesday said they signed a 10-year contract worth $2.5bn (about £1.6bn) to have the computing giant run the bank's data centres in continental Europe. Sweeny said that banks and other financial institutions are...
[December 19, 2002, 8:31]
Wi-Fi Hack Caused TK Maxx Security Breach
News WEP was initially cracked in 2001, and most recently broken by German researchers last month, who beat the encryption using an ordinary laptop in under three seconds. Transaction data sent to banks, which was unencrypted by TJX, is also believed to...
[May 8, 2007, 16:13]
Death Bell Tolls For 3G?
News Greenway pointed out that Sonera and Telefonica have ditched their German 3G joint venture while operators such as Orange and Vodafone are stalling in certain markets. Now is not a time for banks and VCs to be delusional.
[August 19, 2002, 7:38]
