Financial Services Technology

Quick response needed to update ageing technology systems

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OVERVIEW Computer technology is at the core of financial services, yet it can be slow to respond to switched-on customers in a digital world, writes Rod Newing   As the financial services industry attempts to heal itself after a series... Read more

Technology can help reconnect with customers

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CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE It offers a “dream ticket” to boost business, cut costs and repair damaged customer experience. Rod Newing reports on the central role technology has to play in rebuilding reputations and relationships Technology is critical if banks are to... Read more

Improving braking power and speed

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MANAGING RISK The global financial crisis exposed gaps in regulation and risk management. Now new rules have been designed aimed at preventing the same mistakes from happening again. Dan Barnes assesses the impact of advanced technology on managing the risks... Read more

Biometrics

Oldest ‘new’ technology is science of the future

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OVERVIEW Biometrics looks set to replace paper-based identity systems as the technology of recording personal characteristics or traits advances, writes Guy Clapperton People can get a little scared of new technologies. Mobile phones were supposed to give you cancer, they... Read more

Make way for knobbly kneed ID… or who’s this ear?

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ALTERNATIVE BIOMETRICS Knees and ears are perhaps unlikely measures of identity, but they could soon rival fingerprints as personal identification. Rawlson Kingreports Traditional biometrics, such as DNA and fingerprints, are well known and are widely used due to declining prices,... Read more

The workplace just got smarter as business wakes up

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APPLIED BIOMETRICS Biometrics is being adopted by more organisations as the resulting cost benefits and improved security make business sense, writes Wendy Atkins Enterprises are waking up to biometric technology. This can be explained by the vast array of passwords,... Read more