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Irina Latushkina

What is mPIN code and does it fit in new mobile banking era?

Every digital financial market is unique. In one and the same macro-region you will find a lot of peculiarities related to different countries. This is what I see distinctly in APAC region. The last

23 May 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Steven Rackham

Why now is the time to modernise mainframe data

‘Mainframe is dead!’ has long been a cry within the IT industry but the reality is, many organisations still rely heavily upon mainframes with data sitting on them around the 12EB (yes, exabyte) mark ...

22 May 2023
Banking Architecture
Davoud Pourhossein

Creating Modernised Banks with Great Employee Experiences

Financial institutions are often top of the list of organisations that have been slower to embrace digital transformation. Indeed, in a recent survey of financial services (FS) companies, half listed...

19 May 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Michael Berman

Strengthening Cybersecurity Defenses: The Significance of Vendor Cyber Monitoring

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, financial institutions face an ongoing battle to protect their systems and data. That battle extends beyond their own systems and data to those of t...

18 May 2023
Information Security
Andrew Beatty

Digital Transformation During a Downturn: Why Banks Need to Step Up the Pace

The COVID pandemic was perhaps the worst global crisis in a generation. Fortunately banks and fintechs with the right technologies and strategies not only weathered the storm, but came out on top. As ...

16 May 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Aileen Allkins

Fending off the fraudsters: how organisations can protect themselves from cyberattacks

In 2015, a senior executive at Mattel received an email from the company’s newly appointed CEO. The note requested the processing of an overdue payment to a familiar manufacturer. In acting on the ema...

04 May 2023
Information Security
Aare Reintam

Achieving Zero Trust in Finance as Digital Ecosystems Grow in Complexity

Those of us who work in the cyber security industry have been talking about Zero Trust for more than a decade now. During that time, it’s fair to say that the financial services industry has become re...

03 May 2023
Information Security
Mahesh Pawal

When Digital Payments FAIL: The Trojanization of the Digital Payment Ecosystem | PART 3

94% of the passwords used by 5.2 billion internet users scored less than 65 on Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) security scale. I am pretty much sure that you are one of them. CIS suggests that an...

02 May 2023
Digital Banking Trends
Terry Olaes

The Third-Party Cybersecurity Problem for Financial Organizations

Today’s financial institutions are undergoing a transformation to modernize their organizations, increasingly relying on outsourcing operational tasks to third parties to increase efficiency. Many lar...

02 May 2023
Ameesh Divatia

Protecting and Sharing Financial Data is not Easy — Here’s How to Do It

Data represents both a huge opportunity and a significant risk for companies in the financial services industry. On the one hand, data sharing and analytics can help organizations uncover a wide array...

24 Apr 2023
Information Security
A Finextra Member

Exploring the Benefits of Blockchain Technology in Fraud Detection and Prevention

In today’s digital landscape, there is a significant risk of data breaches, cyber thefts, and other such frauds. Digital transformation has enabled fraudsters to find new lines of attack and exploit v...

21 Apr 2023
Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Simon Thompson

ChatGPT: Making things safer

In part-one of this blog I examined the new and powerful technology that is ChatGPT. In this second and final part, I explore what best practices are required to make its use as safe and secure as po...

20 Apr 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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