By John Ginovsky

Not one, not two, but three independent studies released in the past few weeks point to the same conclusion: mobile banking has become established in the retail banking sphere.

The massive appeal of smartphones and tablets is fueling mobile banking adoption, conditioned as their users have already become to other automated banking channels, such as

July 6, 2011

 

By John Ginovsky

Vendor experts, the ABA, and analysts have weighed in on the new authentication guidelines issued last week by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. Officially a supplement to the council’s Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment guidance, the new missive updates the 2005 guidance to account for new threats that have

By John Ginovsky

A new term is cropping up more and more often in technology circles: “Big data.”

It refers to the massive amount of digital data that’s continually created, used, modified, and stored in databases around the world. It’s data that’s entered, one way or another, through computers of all sorts, telephones, mobile devices, and other means, including

By John Ginovsky

In the belief that tough times lie ahead, more boards of directors are saying that they expect a high to extremely high strategic contribution of IT in 2012, according to the Gartner Forbes 2011 U.S. Board of Directors Survey.

This comes at the same time that IT budgets are expected to get leaner just as regulatory pressure and new revenue