Bank IT Asia

Why should security professionals pay attention to the rise of fintech?

Chia Hock Lai, President, Singapore Fintech Association, highlights the areas in fintech that have critical implications on cybersecurity, at the Computerworld Singapore Security Summit 2017.

Nearly half of Singapore companies will need intelligent automation by 2018

Highly automated companies are six times more likely to experience revenue growth of more than 15 percent, according to ServiceNow.

Almost two-third of Singapore workers know they are in a good position to job hop

Companies thus need to commit to investing in their people to retain them, according to the 2017 Kelly Services and Capita Salary Guide

Mobile banking and payments on the way to becoming a norm in APAC

More than 110 billion sessions took place in finance apps in the region last year, revealed App Annie’s report.

Myanmar's First Private Bank digitalises operations to better understand customers

Misys solutions help the bank connect its front, middle and back office as well as get insights on their customers to better serve them.

Hong Kong consults the public on how to improve internet trading security

The consultation is open until 7 July 2017.

Global ransomware attacks prompt national 'WannaCry' alert from CyberSecurity Malaysia

(NEW OFFICIAL UPDATE 16/05/2017) CyberSecurity Malaysia gives an update of the latest reported incidents and updated advisory to system administrators.

How Asian organisations can avoid becoming WannaCry’s next prey

The first step is simple: Practise good cyber hygiene, says Sudhir Panda at the Computerworld Singapore Security Summit 2017.

MSIG’s new mobile app speeds up motor claims in Thailand

With SpeeDi, customers will receive assistance within 1 minute of reporting and have a motor surveyor on-site within 30 minutes.

Acronis and Singapore’s Raxel Telematics help insurers reduce fraudulent claims with blockchain

The two companies will offer blockchain solutions that will ensure only valid claims are paid.

NUS Computing and Standard Chartered to equip students with digital transformation skills

The bank will also offer internship opportunities to promising students pursuing the Information Systems and Business Analytics degree programmes at the Singapore university.

Latest News

IOTA launches $2 million fund for IoT-focused blockchain derivative

The open source nonprofit organisation is seeking to foster growth of its distributed ledger technology.

The ‘cobots’ are coming. Is your IT team ready?

These collaborative robots work alongside human employees, sending productivity sky-high. But IT teams must be prepared to take on complex programming, deal with connectivity issues and get used to sharing work space with 6-foot-tall machines.

3 ways your culture may be sabotaging innovation

If your business is struggling to adapt to the digital age due to a lack of innovation, it might be time to reconsider your company culture.

Driving Innovation with Legacy Systems in FSI

Complex legacy IT systems can inhibit digital transformation. To learn how to tackle this challenge, we speak with innovation expert Thunaiselvam Ramasamy, Chief Architect at Juniper Networks.

Missing protection: Corporate B2B privacy policies

The general lack of such policies is a major security hole.

WannaCry: Sometimes you can blame the victims

Last week’s big malware outbreak caused a lot of damage, but organisations that made good decisions ahead of time weren’t affected

Vocal theft on the horizon

Using your voice for authentication is about to get more risky, thanks to voice-spoofing technology.

Why smart contracts can't be fully automated

Smart contracts, enabled by blockchain technology, have the potential to streamline all manner of transactions. But most of them will still require humans in the middle.

HSBC: Why machine learning is accelerating cloud adoption

Machine learning, along with cloud-first strategy, helps bank understand huge amounts of data.

Westpac digital drive helping contain costs

Interim cash profit of more than $4 billion follows busy six months in transformation effort.

Blogs

How to use blockchain: Following an asset through its lifecycle to learn more

Deployed in the enterprise, blockchain can help track the origin of goods to ensure sustainable use of raw materials, verify provenance of intellectual property, and more

Big Data

Win the battle for relevance in the Digital Economy...or face extinction: Stephen Brobst in Malaysia

'Technology is the easy part; the challenge is to turn data into products,' big data evangelist and Teradata's global CTO Stephen Brobst speaks of the urgent need to change mind-sets and speed up the development of true data scientists

Customer Insights & Analytics

Myanmar's First Private Bank digitalises operations to better understand customers

Misys solutions help the bank connect its front, middle and back office as well as get insights on their customers to better serve them.

Cards

Next generation biometric card combines technology and fingerprint scans

Mastercard demonstrates secure and convenient biometric card in South African trials.

Cloud & Virtualisation

Google's the latest to take on IoT management headaches

Google's Cloud IoT Core will manage devices and bring data into cloud services.

Core banking - Infrastructure

Nearly half of Singapore companies will need intelligent automation by 2018

Highly automated companies are six times more likely to experience revenue growth of more than 15 percent, according to ServiceNow.

Payments

Mobile banking and payments on the way to becoming a norm in APAC

More than 110 billion sessions took place in finance apps in the region last year, revealed App Annie’s report.

Security

Wanawiki is the WannaCry fix that might save affected PCs—if you work fast

To give the wanawiki tool a fighting chance, though DO NOT REBOOT YOUR PC.

FinTech

Why should security professionals pay attention to the rise of fintech?

Chia Hock Lai, President, Singapore Fintech Association, highlights the areas in fintech that have critical implications on cybersecurity, at the Computerworld Singapore Security Summit 2017.

Internet

eCommerce Tracker: Malaysia's online 'book fest' feeds a growing love for reading

Malaysian Publishers Association signs eCommerce deal to offer books and stationery at up to 70% in line with MDEC's eCommerce drive.

Mobile

Driving Innovation with Legacy Systems in FSI

Complex legacy IT systems can inhibit digital transformation. To learn how to tackle this challenge, we speak with innovation expert Thunaiselvam Ramasamy, Chief Architect at Juniper Networks.

Whitepapers

Ixia CloudLens: Managing the Elastic Cloud Visibility Surface

The attack surface of a software environment is the sum of the different points (attack vectors) where an unauthorized user (the attacker) can try to enter data into or extract data from an environment.

Uncompromised Visibility and Security Performance

In this paper, learn: How to avoid "network blind spots" that increase the risk of security breaches, Which features on industry-standard network packet brokers result not only in reduced performance but dropped packets

Four Key Network Visibility Attributes to Protect Your Business

This paper focuses on why network visibility is critical to your business, and four key attributes of best-in-class visibility solutions you must explore before selecting a visibility platform.

5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Security and Monitoring Tools

What you’ll learn: What are the common problems that modern enterprises have when it comes to getting the most value out of their monitoring tools? What are the most cost effective solutions? What are the attributes of a well-designed visibility architecture?

Monitoring Virtual/Cloud Environments

The paper addresses six key considerations to ensure service resilience in virtual environments, and the importance of providing pervasive data access to the right tool, at the right time, and in the right place.