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Online Banking Security: What Went Wrong? And, How Can We Fix It?
Online Banking Security: What Went Wrong? And, How Can We Fix It?

Whilst the outlook for face-to-face security in 2010 looks set to be fairly rosy, the same cannot be said for UK online banking. Despite the initial decline in fraud following…

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Banks’ Challenge To Balance Security With Usability
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Banks’ Challenge To Balance Security With Usability

A recent report from Gartner highlights a growing security trend which has seen fraudsters overcoming strong two-factor authentication methods. Gartner says that Trojan-based,…

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Cheques Are On The Way Out, So What’s The Alternative?
Cheques Are On The Way Out, So What’s The Alternative?

Today the Payments Council has announced the target deadline of October 2018 for the end of cheques as a form of payment in the UK. For banks, this is welcome news. Cheques are…

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2009 Sees Good And Bad News In Face To Face Payment Security
2009 Sees Good And Bad News In Face To Face Payment Security

With the year nearly over, I find myself mulling over some of the main trends of 2009, one of which is the significant decline in UK face-to-face payments fraud. This trend can…

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The Chicken And Egg Of Contactless Payments
The Chicken And Egg Of Contactless Payments

When Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, I wonder whether he realised the impact this new technology would come to have on people’s lives. Use of this new…

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How To Cut US Merchants’ Card Fraud Costs By $50 Billion
How To Cut US Merchants’ Card Fraud Costs By $50 Billion

Two news items came out this week that caught my attention and got me thinking. The first was a report from LexisNexis - the…

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