A survey compiled by BSI‘s Cybersecurity and Information Resilience centre of excellence in conjunction with GovNewsDirect has unearthed a range of inconsistencies in how prepared the UK’s public sector organizations are for potential cyber-attacks and data losses.
Actual security breaches
The PRA110, introduced to build upon existing liquidity returns including LCR and NSFR & C66.00, and to replace the existing FSA 47/48, requires the acquisition of additional data of greater granularity to facilitate the monitoring and measurement of daily cashflow mismatches.
There are clear and universal businesses cases for the adoption of IoT across multiple industries in Europe and North America. The business case for Africa however, is not so simple. A continent comprised of many countries with vastly different economic, political and social environments, Africa requires a unique approach to the development of IoT penetration.
The IoT Africa Summit, a division of the premier IT Leaders Summit which annually hosts more than 170 CIO’s from Africa’s top businesses will be gearing up to define the path for the African connectivity renaissance.
The United Bank of Egypt (The United Bank) has modernized its core banking infrastructure across its retail, corporate and treasury business using Finastra technology. The bank has upgraded to the latest version of Fusion Equation, integrating it with a new deployment of Fusion Teller to drive efficient in-branch retail operations.
Perkbox, Europe’s fastest growing employee engagement platform today announces a strategic expansion of its technology capability. As the company is set to scale both in the UK and internationally and launch a range of new products, it has appointed Paul Schulz, ex-Head of Mobile Technology at Yahoo! as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and doubled the size of its tech team.
MYPINPAD, the global leader in payment acceptance and customer authentication solutions, is pleased to announce its software has been embedded into the latest base software release (3.4a) of the Thales payShield 9000 Hardware Security Module (HSM).
Tinkoff Bank continues to expand its ecosystem of lifestyle services by adding movie ticket bookings to its mobile app.
With more than 300 participating movie theatres in 90 cities across Russia, tickets are now just a couple of clicks away. The new feature is available to the Bank’s customers in the Entertainment section of the Payments menu.
To mark the beginning of the school year, Sberbank is launching a mobile application called SberKids, which will be available from the AppStore and Google Play from 1 September.
Using SberKids, parents can:
Create a virtual prepaid card for their child.
Instantly transfer pocket money to the card.
See what the child is spending money on and set limits for them.
View the child’s wishlist.
Leading international money transfer company WorldRemit has launched a new digital service within Africa, making it easier to send and receive money across the continent.
The new digital service will reduce the cost of sending money across borders. The prohibitive charges that individuals and businesses pay to transfer money within Africa are recognised as a major obstacle to the growing regional integration promoted by the continent-wide free-trade agreement signed by 44 countries in March 2018.
Earthport plc (AIM: EPO.L), the leading payment network for cross-border payments, is pleased to announce that Mr Sunil Sabharwal, has agreed to join Earthport's Board as a Non-Executive Director, subject to regulatory approvals.
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