Microsoft has introduced a program to bring standards and best practices to banking applications so banks can turn disparate applications into an integrated composite so customers won't even notice when they are moving from an Internet application to...

http://www.onelocalnews.com/newhopecourier/ViewArticle.aspx?id=28923&source=2 " BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer, does a quick survey of the upcoming launches of Vista and Office and somewhat vaguely and inconclusively cites Bill Hartnett...

Gordon Frazer, Microsoft's newly appointed UK managing director, thinks Vista’s new features should win it faster adoption in the enterprise: unseen embedded functionality such as new security mechanisms and embedded search technology allowing users to...

TEMENOS, a provider of integrated core banking systems that offer front to back integration on a Microsoft platform, has won the Financial-i ‘Leaders in Innovation Awards’ for TEMENOS T24, the company’s modular core banking system. The criteria for selecting...

Wizzit and First National Bank in South Africa are developing banking accounts that rely on mobile phones as a way to reach the unbanked population, and clients who just want the convenience of making payment without a trek to the bank. The technology...

Jane Kim reports that usage is up, "Close to 40% of U.S. households do some banking online, more than double the rate in 2000, according to Celent LLC, a research and consulting firm." Banks are beginning to think like users rather than technologists...

Microsoft has signed a deal with Sprint Nextel to put Microsoft search on the Sprint network -- the first big deal to make search mobile. Looks like mobile devices are set to take off. Adam Kornak, the mobility specialist in Microsoft's financial services...

Because Microsoft technology uses Web services, XML, and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Microsoft and partner applications can be tightly integrated to provide a strong, yet flexible multichannel delivery system. For banks, that means that a standardized...

In a white paper, titled "Unified Communications and Collaboration for the Banking Industry," outlines how Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system create a platform allowing banks to unify their business communications, empower teams through workspaces...

Annette Nazareth, an SEC commissioner, says SarbOx may need some refining but that it is good for business -- leading to higher company valuatins --and it protects the individual investors who make the US markets the deepest in the world. The slowdown...

Barclays has hired Helen Dodd from Tesco, where she was in charge of store format and design, to redo the retail branches, right down to the staff uniforms…The bank some months ago hired awayr Deanna Oppenheimer from WAMU to run its UK retail banking...

The FT reports that in London City professionals celebrate Sarbanes-Oxley for driving business form New York to the UK ; while SEC Chairman Christopher Cox promises the regulators won’t over-reach. However, the bigger dangers if legislative creep from...