Banking

Barclaycard bPay Loop Brings Contactless Payments To Watches And Fitness Bands

Barclaycard says £20 bPay loop can turn existing items into contactless payment devices

8 years ago

New Trojan Uses Zeus Tricks To Target Russian Banks

Dr Web researchers find new malware that can spread itself and avoid detection on Windows systems

8 years ago

SWIFT Tightens Security Measures After Banking Incidents

"Better shape up" SWIFT tells banks with weak cyber security procedures, in wake of recent attacks

8 years ago

Philippines Bank ‘Targeted By SWIFT Hacking Group’

Hackers backed by North Korea may be linked to a group that has carried out a string of attacks on…

8 years ago

Santander Signs Up Blockchain For Speedy International Payments

New blockchain-powered app will mean an end to lengthy waiting period to clear international payments

8 years ago

OakNorth Becomes First UK Bank To Move Core Systems Onto AWS

Entrepreneur bank OakNorth, launched eight months ago, moves entire core systems into the public cloud

8 years ago

HSBC Moves 840 IT Jobs From UK To China, India And Poland

HSBC's cost cutting measures continue but it maintains it is committed to building world class IT infrastructure

8 years ago

SWIFT Warns Of Malware Attack On Second Bank

SWIFT continues to deny compromise of its systems, but warns of fresh attack on an unnamed bank

8 years ago

Barclays Launches Tap And Go Android Payment App

UK bank signals split from Android Pay with new “Contactless Mobile” service allowing payments up to £100 from June

8 years ago

Barclays Will Let Businesses Send You Money Using Just A Phone Number

Expansion to PingIt will let companies directly pay their customers

8 years ago

One In Three Europeans Would Leave Their Bank For Better Digital Services

Fujitsu survey reveals banks must keep customers happy online or they might jump ship to rivals - or even Facebook,…

8 years ago

SWIFT Warns Of Other Attacks On Network

The theft of $81m from Bangladesh Bank was part of a wave of scams attempting to use the SWIFT network

8 years ago

Bangladesh Bank Attackers ‘Hacked SWIFT Software’

Client software used to access the SWIFT financial network was apparently compromised in the unprecedented heist, BAE Systems researchers say

8 years ago

Beware Of Bank Heists For The Digital Age

Kaspersky Lab's Kirill Slavin takes a look at the tactics being used by some of the new generation of tech-savvy…

8 years ago

Barclays Offers Big Data Service To Britain’s SMBs

New Barclays SmartBusiness project will give half a million SMBs access to customer trends and insights

8 years ago

Bank Of Russia Signs Up Machine Learning To Bust Fraud

Yandex machine learning service will allow Bank of Russia to spot fraudulent and unlicensed money lending organisations

8 years ago

Android Pay Will Launch In UK Without RBS, Barclays And Santander Support

Google confirms Android Pay will launch in the UK "in next few months", but some bank customers and American Express…

8 years ago

How To Hack A Bank In 20 Minutes

Ryan MacDougall, senior security consultant at Coalfire, details the simple techniques he (hypothetically?) used to breach a major bank

8 years ago

Forging Ahead: Four Digital Transformation Partnerships For Financial Services

Telstra's Tom Homer gives us a look at some of the most exciting digital transformation opportunities for financial services firms

8 years ago

RSA: Committing Online Fraud Is Just Too Easy

Daniel Cohen, head of FraudAction at RSA - a security division of EMC - explains how cybercriminals have upped their…

8 years ago

HSBC Rolls Out Biometric Banking

Voice recognition and fingerprint scanning will give HSBC and First Direct customers extra security

8 years ago

Hackers Rob Millions From Dozens Of Banks

In 2015 hackers turned to hacking banks directly, rather than targeting end users, according to Kaspersky Lab

8 years ago

HSBC Cyber Attack: How Safe Is Online Banking?

HSBC says it has successfully defended a distributed denial of service (DDos) attack, but should customers be worried?

8 years ago

Cyber Attack Blocks HSBC Customers From Online Accounts

HSBC says it is working hard to get its banking facility back online after a DDoS attack

8 years ago

O2 Travel Alerts Service Hopes To Stamp Out Holiday Card Fraud

O2 "World first" technology will mean you no longer have to inform your bank when you want to use your…

8 years ago

Barclaycard Finally Reveals Apple Pay Competitor

mybarclaycard Android app allows for contactless payments up to £30

8 years ago

BT Signs On For Nationwide Network Revamp

Nationwide says customers will benefit from better online banking thanks to BT network upgrades

8 years ago

The New Wave Of Challenger Banks: How Will Digital-Only Banks Shake Up Financial Services?

Simon Cadbury from Intelligent Environments tells us how digital-only banks are set to shake up banking as we know it

8 years ago

HSBC Says Online Banking Glitch ‘Not A Cyber-Attack’

HSBC Chief Operating Officer John Hackett claims problems due to “complex technical issue”

8 years ago

HSBC Customers Angry At Ongoing Online Banking Problems

HSBC customers suffer from further online problems, with services running at a “reduced capacity”

8 years ago