Financial Services Industry

Government made me do it, imprisoned TJX hacker claims

Albert Gonzalez, who is serving a 20-year sentence, wants to reverse his guilty plea

Most NFC mobile wallet talk is ‘half-baked,’ analyst says

Retailers have to accept NFC for mobile payment services to move forward

Mobile payment pilot coming to Salt Lake in 2012

Fine, analysts say, but will the credit card companies and banks all get along?

IBM: Watson could boost confidence of financial industry

Bank of America to further ramp up security with new CISO

Ex-Booz Allen Hamilton exec to oversee effort to bolster security after WikiLeaks said it holds 5GB of insider bank data

Salesforce.com and Intuit tying QuickBooks to CRM

The partnership will result in a combined Salesforce.com-QuickBooks app later this year

European lawmakers still worried about banking data security

Europol accused of rubberstamping with no thought for data protection

UK banks report lower online banking and card payment losses

The drop comes as a result better fraud detection systems, say industry trade groups

Cross-Ocean Clouds Are Gaining IT Favor

AIG Edison and others say cloud benefits outweigh latency issues even when apps are hosted on the other side of the globe.

Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds

Japan's AIG Edison says cloud computing benefits outweigh latency issues that come with using Salesforce.com's U.S. data center