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BSI Rates CBN Highest in Global Information Security Standard

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The British Standards Institute (BSI), Wednesday rated the central bank of Nigeria (CBN) highest in maintaining global information security standard. A statement from the CBN said Vikas Mulkutkar, surveillance auditor of the BSI disclosed this during the closing ceremony of the ISO 27001 surveillance audit […]

Banks begin biometric registration of customers Monday

The Deposit Money Banks will on Monday commence the biometric registration of their customers, the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc, the organisation coordinating the project, has said. This is coming about four months after the project was inaugurated by the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido […]

MasterCard expects big growth from ‘big data’ insights

MasterCard Inc, the world’s second-largest debit and credit card company, sees business booming from selling data to retailers, banks and governments on spending patterns found in the payments it processes, a top executive told Reuters. MasterCard, which handles payments for 2 billion cardholders and tens of millions of merchants, uses […]