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Bank quits London datacentre

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-03T09:39:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 09:39:00

Dresdner Kleinwort overhauls its IT and heads out of Docklands

Investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort is relocating its London Docklands datacentre in a multimillion-pound project that will see a complete revamp of hardware, software and management processes....

Volkswagen Financial Services improves Cobol maintenance

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-02T16:33:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 16:33:00

The insurer hopes to increase productivity of Cobol-based applications

Car insurance firm Volkswagen Financial Services (WFS) is modernising its Cobol-based systems infrastructure. The insurance policies of WFS’ customers across Europe and Asia-Pacific run on a single Cobol application, while...

Barclays Bank offers free security software online

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-02T12:19:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 12:19:00

The bank is giving away security software to its online customers to protect against phishing and data leakage

Retail bank Barclays is offering free security software to its two million online customers. Barclays.co.uk users will be offered the security software free of charge for download from the web...

Société Générale overhauls global IT

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-02T05:45:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 05:45:00

Investment bank revamps IT structure and launches business transformation project

Société Générale is setting up new global functions for its technology and back office as part of a major business overhaul....

Capita Life & Pensions renews outsourcing deal

Angelica Mari — 2008-07-01T11:08:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 1 July 2008 at 11:08:00

Insurance group chooses to continue using its managed administration platform

Insurance group Capita Life & Pensions has extended its relationship with supplier Mastek for the provision of business process outsourcing (BPO) services....

UK is the favourite target for Nigerian spam

Tom Young — 2008-07-01T10:01:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Tuesday 1 July 2008 at 10:01:00

UK surfers receive nearly a quarter of the global total of Nigerian spam emails

UK web users are the most likely to be targeted by fraudulent spam emails from Nigeria, according to a survey by McAfee....

Tech firms set to survive the credit crunch

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-30T16:20:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Monday 30 June 2008 at 16:20:00

The number of failing businesses will remain steady over the next year, says research

The UK's IT sector is forecast to survive the worst effects of the current economic turbulence, with the number of business failing remaining constant over the next year....

Nationwide outsources £160m of network services

Angelica Mari — 2008-06-30T09:54:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Monday 30 June 2008 at 09:54:00

BT to manage building society's entire voice and data network infrastructure.

Nationwide Building Society has signed a £160m contract deal with BT to manage its networked IT services and consolidate existing infrastructure onto the supplier’s 21CN global network....

Oracle's earnings rise 27 per cent

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-26T14:13:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 14:13:00

But slower growth is forecast for the current business quarter

Oracle's net profit climbed 27 per cent to $2bn (£1bn) in the fourth quarter, matched by a 24 per cent rise in revenue to $7.2bn (£3.6bn)....

Lloyd's faces up to threat of e-crime

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-26T05:00:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 05:00:00

Lloyd’s of London tackles 60 severe attacks each day by upping defences and aligning IT resources

The growing trend of organised gangs turning to e-crime has been confirmed by Lloyd’s of London, whose networks have been bombarded by structured and competent attacks....

Businesses failing to comply with credit card security rules

Angelica Mari — 2008-06-24T13:19:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 13:19:00

Complexity is causing delays in PCI DSS compliance despite being compulsory for two years, says study

Some 88 per cent of UK businesses are still not compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), even though compliance became compulsory two years ago, according...

UK insurance sector to increase IT investment

Angelica Mari — 2008-06-20T10:39:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Friday 20 June 2008 at 10:39:00

Focus on improved data security and customer service will drive investment boost in technology

Regulatory pressures and recent cases of customer data exposure in the insurance sector could mean more investment in technology, according to research....

Misys returns to revenue growth

Martin Courtney — 2008-06-19T14:57:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 19 June 2008 at 14:57:00

Orders from banking and finance sectors offset decline in healthcare business

UK software company Misys has announced unaudited financial results that estimate growth in reported annual revenue of five per cent for the financial year 2008, up from the £470m reported...

Voice biometrics gains momentum in call centres

Angelica Mari — 2008-06-19T14:30:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Thursday 19 June 2008 at 14:30:00

The banking and retail sector is placing its bets in the technology to improve remote security and customer service

The uptake of biometric solutions could be boosted as companies from the financial and retail sectors are looking for alternatives to protect against the risk associated with card not present...

LinkedIn worth $1bn?

Martin Courtney — 2008-06-19T11:24:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 19 June 2008 at 11:24:00

Additional venture capital funding for professional social networking site inflates paper value

The growing attraction of social networking sites for financial investors has pushed the paper value of LinkedIn to over $1bn (£508m), according to the company's chief executive Dan Nye....