Posts Tagged ‘banking’
Banking on Ubuntu
TL;DR Banking CIOs may know about Ubuntu, and be vaguely aware of Canonical, but I’d be surprised if many could explain the difference in commerials versus Red Hat. Meanwhile engineering teams are content to stick with what they have in a combination of clinging to the past and seeking some mythical homogeneity. OpenStack might give […]
Filed under: technology | 1 Comment
Tags: banking, Canonical, cloud, EL, Linux, OpenStack, Red Hat, RHEL, Ubuntu
I got an email from my bank yesterday telling me that they’re rolling out two factor authentication (2FA) to protect their my money from fraudsters. It looks like a pretty standard one time password (OTP) based scheme that will have a choice between mobile and physical tokens. They’re being pretty inflexible about the deployment model […]
Filed under: identity, security | 2 Comments
Tags: 2FA, banking, identity, NFC, online, OTP, security, twitter, user experience, UX
Indistinguishable from fraud
I came across this tweet yesterday: It was timely, as I was in the midst of sorting out a foreign exchange transaction that had gone wrong. I’d sent $250 to a recipient in the US, and only $230 had shown up in their account (and then their bank had charged them $12 for the privilege […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble | 3 Comments
Tags: banking, charges, fees, financial services, fraud, FX, international, payments, spreads
I watched this film last week, but it’s taken me a while to find the time for a quick review. I guess I must like Michael Moore‘s films, as I’ve watched most of them, though I know from experience to expect a certain political perspective that I might not entirely agree with. I think he […]
Filed under: film, review | 3 Comments
Tags: banking, capitalism, cdo, economics, engineering, film, Michael Moore, review, science, taxi driver
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