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World's Oldest Bank Employs Multi-Channel Strategy To Offer Customers New Products
White Papers Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is the world's oldest bank, part of a group that aims to distinguish itself through its customer service. To meet these objectives, the bank wanted to migrate branch operations to digital channels and develop...
[May 30, 2007, 0:00]
Interneer Case Study: The World Bank/PEER Consultants
White Papers The World Bank Group's mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. The World Bank was seeking an engineering firm to commence infrastructure-strengthening construction projects in Grenada.
[November 1, 2006, 23:00]
Report To World Bank Recommends Open Standards
News Governments and businesses should adopt open standards in their software in order to boost their efficiency, innovation and growth, according a report presented at the World Bank last Friday. The report — Roadmap for Open ICT systems ...
[September 12, 2005, 18:00]
Hacktivists Threaten World Bank Meeting
News The US government is warning system administrators to monitor their systems for computer attacks planned this week, ahead of the upcoming Washington, D.C.meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this weekend.
[September 24, 2002, 12:13]
Protest Fears Force World Bank Conference Online
News The World Bank will hold its next development conference over the Internet in an attempt to avoid demonstrations against global capitalism. By holding the conference -- which was supposed to take place next week in Barcelona -- online, the World...
[June 20, 2001, 14:29]
International Network Services Case Study: Major Investment Bank
White Papers This investment bank is one of the top ten investment clearing houses in the world. The bank was consolidating its New York operations into a new world headquarters building, providing 6,000 employees with state-of-the-art systems from trading...
[December 12, 2005, 23:00]
Citi Gives Customers Control Over Global Bank Accounts With Web-Based Service
White Papers Citi's Global Transaction Services, which provides cash management services, wanted to help multinational clients better understand their cash positions spanning thousands of bank accounts around the world.
[January 10, 2008, 23:00]
419 Spammers Use Holocaust To Boost Credibility
News A spammer has bombarded at least 75,000 inboxes with an email scam that offers recipients a share of $35m (£19.5m) from a World War II Holocaust victim's bank account, experts say. The supposed author, Ronald Lauder, said he was a member of Swiss...
[October 1, 2004, 17:40]
EDS Claims World's First .Net Online Banking Solution
News Aside from EDS's claims that the project is a world first, the implementation of the .Net architecture at the bank has a second significance. The IT solutions provider has constructed a .Net-based online banking service for the Bank of Queensland.
[August 15, 2002, 11:57]
Tracking Money Trails With Technology
News This is one of the main issues Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill hopes to address this weekend at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Ottawa. Take your average bank: Its customers change every day.
[November 21, 2001, 10:35]
W3C Cuts Membership Fees
News The W3C's new fee schedule, effective from 1 April, groups nations into four categories established by the World Bank: high-income, upper-middle income, lower-middle income and low-income. The World Bank's classifications may raise some eyebrows...
[April 21, 2005, 12:15]
Top Banks Use Tech To Boost Green Credentials
News According to Williams, HSBC became the world's first carbon-neutral bank in October 2005 and has opened its own 150-megawatts wind farm in Wales. Speaking at BT's Green Bank event in London this week, chief information officer of Morgan Stanley...
[November 5, 2007, 11:59]
Phishers Target World Cup Fans
News The official-looking e-mails tell recipients they've won a lottery and ask them to disclose personal information, including bank account data, in order to collect their winnings, the organization said.
[September 29, 2005, 17:35]
Open Source Community Retaliates
News Microsoft group product manager Aubrey Edwards last week suggested the security of a bank is comparable to that of an operating system and claimed that no bank would make its security architecture common knowledge.
[December 6, 1999, 11:25]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback As far as your concern about your details being mishandled when your bank tranfers over to india, allow for me to say this: Under bank gurantees, you are covered for such losses, also if you try and find out, you'll come to know that most of the...
[June 3, 2006, 14:14]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia predicts that Y2K spending could boost 1999's gross domestic product by 0.1%, or $8 billion. Kelley Jr.the central bank's Y2K-watcher: 'The bad news is that with all this spending on Year 2000, there is no...
[December 7, 1998, 12:58]
Photos: Big Blue Shows Its Green Side
News IBM has set up a state-of-the-art data centre at its London headquarters on the South Bank. A walk round the South Bank facility reveals some of the secrets of how to make this work. Look inside the data processing room at IBM South Bank and two...
[May 29, 2007, 17:29]
Online Sperm Bank Allows Virtual Conception
News A lesbian couple from Liverpool have been able to conceive a child thanks to an online sperm bank, in one of the Web-based service's first successes. The Sperm Bank of California, for example, has stopped publishing paper copies of its quarterly...
[June 30, 2003, 15:09]
Grid Computing Luring Mainstream Backers
News For example, the computing capacity of a large American bank may be largely unused overnight. In return, the bank might be given access to extra capacity during its peak hours. In a grid world, the idle time of hundreds or thousands of servers...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
