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Surecomp: Bank Pekao Goes All the Way with Web-Based End-to-End Trade Finance Solution

April-2010

This free white paper details the steps this leading Polish bank took in evaluating and licensing a fully comprehensive, STP supported trade finance system from Surecomp incorporating a front-end for bank corporate clients, and bank middle and back office functionality. Translating into automated trade finance processing, with far higher efficiency and faster overall processing.

Surecomp: Front-to-Back Solution Puts BIF at the Forefront of Peruvian Trade Finance

April-2010

Despite all the gloom and doom the LATAM banking sector is alive and well as proved by Banco Interamericano de Finabzas and their determination to become the leading Peruvian trade finance bank, challenging the national and regional banking giants for a slice of the pie. Status the bank achieved with the licensing a fully comprehensive trade finance system from Surecomp.

Surecomp: Firm Foundations

April-2010

Surecomp's Alex Sanchez discusses the benefits that Java technology brings to trade finance software development and how smaller financial institutions, without the burden of large legacy systems, are embracing Java, becoming light, nimble and more responsive to the changing market than their bigger counterparts.

Server Virtualisation

March-2010

Our white paper on virtualisation explains the vision of CyberTech on how enhanced server virtualisation of call recording systems can improve overall efficiency while exceeding regulatory compliance. Please click here to download this white paper.

SMS - The Foundation for Mobile Banking and Payments

January-2010

mBlox – the largest business-to-consumer mobile messaging provider in the world, providing a single interface to 600 carriers in over 180 countries. eCom Advisors - the leading consulting firm on eCommerce and ePayments. mBlox and eCom Advisors have collaborated on the creation of SMS – The Foundation for Mobile Banking and Payments to showcase both the near-term value and long-term strategic necessity of SMS messaging to financial services.

SpreadSheet Inside™: Spreadsheet Flexibility, Database Consistency

December-2009

This paper illustrates how the TimeScape SpreadSheet Inside™ can bring unstructured spreadsheet data and complex calculations within a centralised data management system, increasing transparency and consistency of data and calculations across trading, risk and compliance departments at financial institutions.

Securing Trade Floor Operations with Voice Biometrics

October-2009

Voice biometrics has seen adoptions in various sectors and for a variety of use cases. The most logical use case very quickly became the use of voice biometrics in self-service speaker verification solutions. Password reset and other helpdesk self-service tasks over IVR are examples of that. Agnitio has seen an increase in demand for speaker verification used in conversations between agents or brokers and their clients. In this case the requirement is to not pass a caller to an IVR system for authentication, but to verify the client's identity simply by using whatever is said. This is a mechanism to match the claimed identity. It will serve as an extra layer of security on existing processes or indeed as a replacement for more arduous and less secure ones.

Security: A Major Concern for the Adoption of M-Banking

October-2009

E-banking solutions are vulnerable. The use of the internet as a communication platform, the use of computers and end-users themselves are the three components that make online banking applications vulnerable to attacks. Mechanisms such as firewalls and anti-virus software are put in place to protect users from internet attacks and viruses. Malicious users, however, are resourceful and continuously come up with new forms of attacks and viruses. VASCO has made it its business to protect users. Authentication solutions, such as those offered by VASCO, safeguard users by ensuring the identity of the user. Download this white paper to learn more.