Version Control
-
Published on 11 May 2012
Pressures for increasing productivity and changing economics of computing are placing increasing demand on IT systems. Value chains are becoming global, with the typical manufacturer using components from 35 partners across the world. There has been a 10 fold growth in digital data from 2007 to 2011. 56% of customers demand increased self service capabilities...
Read more
-
Published on 07 May 2012
It is obvious that today merchants and e-commerce retailers are facing a great challenge to avoid data security breaches in their payments solutions. Anyone involved in payment transactions be they merchants, ISOs, QSAs or payment processors, need to adopt the highest level of security.
As with any potential risk, securing yourself against any possible misgivings is vital. The same is true of payments. Merchants, ISOs and any technology reseller supplying them need to be vigilant and forward thinking by selecting a secure payments transaction service from a trustworthy provider, or risk falling victim to a payments data breach.
Only a few companies are available to deliver a state-of-the-art, reliable and cost effective payments transaction service connecting commerce with the world’s banks, acquirers and processors.
Alan Stephenson-Brown, Director of Europe,
speaks with RFPConnect about personal goals in payment industry and introduces a newly launched Phoenix PaySecure Solution, designed to aid merchants in overcoming the complexity of implementing card industry PCI-DSS security standards.
Read more
-
Published on 01 May 2012
Nowadays we are witnessing a real mobility revolution among the working population all over the world. According to IDC’s mobility workforce forecast the worldwide mobile worker population will increase from just over 1 billion in 2010 to more than 1.3 billion by 2015.That will account more than one third of the whole global workforce. There are five main drivers that basically explain such rapid growth: businesses (and individuals) like to communicate on the move, mobility increases corporate productivity and competitiveness, well developed broadband mobile devices, technologies and services, mobile technology supports personal communication, digital information and content are increasingly pervasive.
Enterprises are able to multiply incomes by optimising their labour resources.
However, if we are talking about such a non-traditional type of workforce as mobile employees, managers should think first how to interact with them properly, equip the staff with single mobile tools, train and organise it effectively.
New Version Control makes it easier to learn how a new cost-effective, cloud –based tool, ETAdirect helps businesses to manage mobile workforce more capably.
The product is introduced by Richard Alden, European President of TOA Technologies.
Read more
-
Published on 23 Apr 2012
The demand from investors for transparency and accountability from their fund managers has never been greater. And as they seek the assurance of independent and unbiased fund valuation, investors have extended their scrutiny to service providers, most notably fund administrators.
As a recent Ernst & Young report shows, there remains a significant opinion gap between investment managers and investors when it comes to valuation. While more than half the investors E&Y surveyed believe that funds should outsource valuation to a third-party administrator, conversely, 71% of investment managers felt that outsourcing valuation actually increases risk. Only one in four of these investment managers believe that fund administrators can conduct valuations effectively.
So how can the industry fill this gap with the right valuation services?
Chris Mulhern, COO and President of Butterfield Fulcrum speaks with RFPConnect about the full suite of Butterfield Fulcrum administration solutions for front, middle and back office operations.
Read more
-
Published on 03 Apr 2012
_206.jpg)
Over the last few years, the number of credit card frauds has increased dramatically. In just the UK alone, statistics show that around £1.2m is lost though card fraud every day. This equates to one theft every nine seconds with one in three people a victim. It is part of a larger overall fraud landscape with the UK’s National Fraud Authority (NFA) announcing, this month, that the total cost of fraud to the UK economy is in the region of £73 billion a year.
The card fraud problem has been caused by the boom in credit and debit cards together with newly launched payment channels such as prepaid credit cards. This has been compounded, by the phenomenal growth of e-commerce. Card fraud is, of course, closely linked with lost, stolen or counterfeit credit cards (or even just the card details) which are then used by financial criminals. This all results in heavy financial losses for the card issuers, merchants and retailers.
The Fractals solution, from Alaric International, delivers a modular, easily configurable and highly scalable fraud detection system for issuers, acquirers (both merchant and ATM) and processors. The product contains a number of unique capabilities. For example it can be used in conjunction with Authentic (another milestone product from Alaric) to deliver an integrated environment for real time authorisation and card fraud detection.
RFPConnect interviews Mike Alford, CEO at Alaric International, who introduces an intelligent PA DSS certified, Fractals card fraud detection and prevention solution.
Read more
|
Where Technology Buyers Meet Technology Sellers 
