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S'pore banks get help in lending decisions
News Country's consumer credit bureau taps on business intelligence tools to enable financial institution members to perform timely creditworthiness checks online.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Banking, Commercial lending, Bureau, Risk Management, Business Objects, Financial Company, Singapore, credit history
Banking on AI for creditworthiness
News Philippine software company Vinta Systems, releases credit-scoring application with artificial intelligence capability for financial institutions.
Tags: Banking, Asia, Philippines, Tool, Financial Company, Artificial Intelligence, software, monitoring, financial, bank
Sun’s missing mojo: MIA until when?
Insight commentary Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz keeps painting a sunny picture. Then come more losses, layoffs, and letdowns.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Earning reports/forecasts, Investments, Sales/revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial Company, Jonathan Schwartz, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server
Self-destructing botnets
Techguide Self-destruct code is often written into bot malware. Up until recently that wasn't considered an issue. So, what changed and what does it mean to IT security personnel?
Tags: Operating systems, Network security, Security Management, PC security, Data security, Malware, Security, Bot, Financial Company, Michael Kassner
Word scraps speed up data entry
Techguide If you often work with small nuggets of content that you need to reuse, Word scraps may be the right option for you.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Cell, Financial Company, Chances, data entry, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, dialog box, desktop
What will it take for cloud to fly?
Blogs When planes run through them? In New York, it seems, the clouds rain buckets the very day you book a cruise tour down th...
Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
Insight perspective Strip away all the bluster and jargon and you soon realize the end is nigh for proprietary software, argues open source expert.
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Software licensing, Marginal Cost, IT Budget, Bubble, Open Source, Financial Company, software, theory
FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people
News U.S. and Egyptian authorities have charged almost 100 people involved in a phishing scam designed to swipe personal information and use the data to defraud banks.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Lawsuits, Phishing, U.S., bank, Egypt, FBI, Financial Company, credit card company, financial
Phishing hits one in four Asian banks
News Survey finds over 25 percent of banks have experienced phishing over the past year. Not many have a formal plan to educate customers on identity theft and fraud.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Network security, Security Management, Risk Management, Web sites, Web services, Phishing, Security, Philippines
Microsoft to discontinue MS Money
News The software maker has notified financial institutions that it plans to stop selling its long-running personal finance program, CNET News has learned.
Tags: Personal applications, Financial Company, financial, Web Site, Web, Personal applications, Intuit Inc.
XBRL standard could highlight financial risks
News The IBM Data Governance Council is launching a year-long initiative to try to develop a taxonomy to describe risk in the XBRL business data language.
Tags: Data Management, Data security, XBRL, IBM Corp., Bank Of America Corp., Financial Company, Citigroup Inc., enterprise data management, IBM Data Governance Council, American Express Co.
'Disintegrated' IT didn't help financial crisis
News Financial firms could have better handled economic perils if they integrated technology-business infrastructure for more effective risk monitoring, say experts.
Tags: Financial, Software integration, Risk Management, Risk Management, Financial Crisis, IT Professional, Financial Company, compliance, decision-making, Financial
More banking tools move to mobile
News Adoption is driven by goal of banks in Asia to make financial services available to their customers anywhere, any time, says Financial Insights.
Tags: Banking, Applications and tools, Business applications, Mobile applications, Mobile, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Asia-Pacific, Tool, Mobile Device
EU banks ditch offshorers for own techies abroad
News Banks are increasingly wary about trusting outside companies to handle their information, and are shunning outsourcing companies to set up their own offshore operations.
Tags: Security, Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Counsel, Outsourcing Company, Financial Company, Europe, Business Process, BPO, financial
Asian banks not in 'hibernate' mode
News Region's financial entities will lean toward innovation to ride downturn--even the more conservative will invest to be more efficient, say industry watchers.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, Business planning, Project management, Pay-for-performance, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Asia, IT Budget, IT Services, Financial Company, Innovation
