finextra news: Demographics not key to adoption of banking technology
20 February 2004 – Despite common assumptions that young, educated and wealthy consumers are more likely to use electronic banking technology, a study by Ohio State University has found that marketing, not demographics, is key to the adoption of Web banking services.
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finextra news: Majority of US surfers access accounts online
03 August 2004 – Over half of Internet users in the US access financial accounts online, while 37% use the Web to conduct banking transactions, according to a survey by The Dieringer Research Group.
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finextra news: Internet banking boost for ING
05 August 2004 – Dutch financial services group ING is reporting a strong set of results from its global Internet banking business ING Direct, where second quarter operating profit rose to EUR128 million from EUR24 million a year ago.
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Yahoo! News – Feds, Private Groups to Educate Consumers About ‘Phishing’ Scams
Thu Jun 17, 5:42 PM
By David McGuire, washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
The federal government and some of the nation’s leading consumer organizations and financial institutions today kicked off a campaign to educate consumers about the growing threat posed by “phishing,” a sophisticated form of identity theft conducted via e-mail and conterfeit Web sites.
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Yahoo! News – Hotmail, Yahoo Step Up The Mailbox Rivalry
Sun Jun 20, 2:08 AM
By Leslie Walker, The Washington Post
The Web mailbox wars escalated last week when Yahoo expanded its free e-mail accounts from 4 megabytes to 100 MB, and Microsoft confirmed that it, too, will raise storage limits soon on its free Hotmail accounts.
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Study Ranks Nation’s Top Banks by Online Adoption, Engagement and Loyalty
RESTON, Va., June 17, 2004 – comScore Networks, industry leader in the measurement and analysis of consumer behavior and attitudes, today released an analysis of the state of online banking in the U.S. comScore found that more than 22 million users logged into accounts at the nation’s top ten banks in the first quarter of 2004, representing growth of 29 percent versus Q1 2003. During this same period, usage of online bank bill payment services has grown by 37 percent.
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finextra news: Danish banks develop net-ID scheme
10 June 2004 – Denmark’s commercial banks are rolling out an online ID scheme for customers to use when transacting with other organisations on the Internet.
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finextra news: Royal Bank of Canada computer glitch causes payments chaos
04 June 2004 – Royal Bank of Canada says it will be working over the weekend to update customer accounts following a computer glitch that has caused payroll delays for thousands of Canadian workers.
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6/3/2004 5:00:00 PM – A bank executive tells the InfoSecurity conference crowd how he dealt with last year’s server loss and why he breaks down tasks across the enterprise. Plus: Why CEOs don’t care about ports
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finextra news: Chip and PIN holds key to phishing threat – Consult Hyperion
13 May 2004 – UK banks are being urged to introduce two-factor authentication based around the Chip and PIN system to head off the increasing threat to online security from Internet-based phishing scams.
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