Posts Tagged facebook

  • Public yet still private Public yet still private

    Financial institutions can learn from publicly available data, but it pays to remember even if information is public it is still subject to the Privacy Act BY STEPHEN WILSON Privacy is a notoriously slippery topic, but information privacy law  is in fact pretty straightforward.  Having sai...

  • Facebook sets sights on payments, while banks debate M@MBO Facebook sets sights on payments, while banks debate M@MBO

    The business of payments is something Facebook is “focusing a lot of time on” revealed Facebook’s Australian head Paul Borrud yesterday, speaking at an Interactive Minds event on Facebook for business. Facebook recently announced a partnership with PayPal to allow advertisers to use PayPal ...

  • Where’s your canary in the coal mine?

    Last month James Gardner inspired our audience of bankers at CXFS09 with one question: Does your institution have a canary in the coal mine?Gardner reminded us the landscape financial institutions currently operate in is defined by a vast threat surface. “Every single critical business line we hav...

  • Banking Review podcast with Jeff Carter

    Jeff Carter is a former Bank of America executive who founded the Centre for Future Banking with MIT in April 2008. Jeff is currently the CEO of Azigo, a start-up specialising in electronic identity management.Jeff recently visited Australia for Amplify, an internal innovation event run by AMP. I wa...

  • The future for payments – we’ll discuss it at BarCampBank

    If there’s one sector in banking that looks set to transform dramatically in the next few years it’s payments. The investors behind oneTXT and MoBank must agree, having gambled millions of dollars on start-ups seeking to capitalise on mobile and social network payments.The mobile & social ne...

  • Who’s afraid of Facebook?

    Last week I blogged about social media and the large number of employees working for the major banks that are banned from using Facebook at work. Yesterday I heard from Facebook head of media sales Mike Murphy who was keynoting this year’s ad:tech conference.Murphy provided some sobering statistic...

  • Are you banned from using Facebook at work?

    If you work for a large bank, chances are you’re banned from using Facebook during office hours. This fact was confirmed for me at Ross Dawson’s excellent Enterprise 2.0 forum held last month in Sydney.At the forum I led a roundtable discussion on enterprise 2.0 for financial services. You can r...

  • Do you know your stripper name?

    Fun Facebook applications, including ‘Your Stripper Name’, ‘Your Pornstar Name’ and ‘Your Superhero Name’ are the latest source of information being targeted by fraudsters seeking identities to exploit.These Facebook tools use the combination of pet name/street name/mother’s maiden nam...