Jacqueline Guichelaar, general manager, technology operations, National Australia Group, tells Dan Barnes of the importance of marrying technology and business decision making.

Companies that focus on external criminals attempting to steal their intellectual property assets are looking in the wrong direction. More often, the culprits are inside the firewall. Kazuhiko Adachi explains how to guard against internal threats.

To comply with Japanese regulations on data security, Johoku Shinkin Bank called in the IT plumbers. By Koichi Yamagata.

In the ongoing battle to thwart fraudsters, biometrics are the new frontier and fingerprint recognition appears to be the strongest candidate for rolling out to customers now. By Joshua Weinberger.

Wendy Atkins examines the latest weaponry to combat banking card fraudsters in the payments industry’s arsenal.

Kazuhiko Adachi, chairman of Intelligent Wave, talks to Dan Barnes about global financial crime, regulatory pressures and how technology can tackle these challenges.

In the tough environment of capital markets, people skills are often forgotten. Bank of America’s capital markets CIO talks to Dan Barnes about the virtues of trust and how his management approach has seen him voted CIO of the Year 2006.

A recent roundtable organised by The Banker looked at the opportunities and issues faced by banks in dealing with fraud and money laundering. A group of anti-fraud professionals from leading banks took part in the discussion, chaired by The Banker’s contributing editors Mike Imeson andChris Skinner.

Banks’ offerings have been saturated with traditional products, and duplicative and tactical responses to regulatory mandates add extra burdens to fragmented business operations and administrative overheads.

Two underlying themes of MiFID – forcing systematic internalisers to become transparent and defining liquid shares for all EU member states – will result in the role of national exchanges and market data providers being called into question. By Chris Skinner.