Regards, CL Chow "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; A critical question, has anyone been working in a Bank's IT support department that serves the bank's call centre?
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel < [email protected]> wrote: > Do agree with Brian. Banking Industry do care about updating > themselves with security future and any related to security of the > data. That required by the law. > > But, > > Its does not mean Bank will adopt themselves with current technology > as fast as any industry. They need mature and proven technology and > widely support applications. > > and this information what how when who is always keep as secret to > bank due to BAFIA. Even for ex banker like myself. Sharing about what > I had done for the past 13 years in bank need to rewords careful. > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:07 AM, BRIAN RITCHIE > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This will depend on the architecture of the bank and what systems it > > needs to or doesn't need to support and if the benefit outweighs the > > cost to upgrade. This is sometimes easier for larger banks with > > modular branch systems across the world than it is for smaller, more > > regionalised banks though the final aim would be a standardized, > > modern platform. Also, the other thing to realise is that banks, like > > hospitals is a very conservative industry player and will generally > > tend to upgrade much later in the software maturity curve. A necessary > > balance is required to maintain concurrence of software between the > > operational backend and the customer facing frontend. Are you looking > > for any specific information or is it a general discussion? Ping me > > directly for specifics though I can't reveal much. ;-) > > > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Marjan Jeffry <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> if it ain't broken don't fix it!! ;) but seriously I doubt banks use > crap > >> technology for their back-end systems. Or is it the systems that you saw > was > >> only to served as a front-end client or dumb terminal? > >> > >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:44 PM, CL Chow <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> Anyone been or is working for a bank. I only know 3 banks currently and > >>> from my information, most of the local bank's system sucks. > >>> Some still using legacy operating system like Windows 98, 2000, > computers > >>> with old school processor like Pentium 3, still using diskett as > storage > >>> system. So, what do you guys think and I am very curious what are you > guys > >>> who work in a bank as IT person thinks and want to do about it. And > what are > >>> the restrictions that allow such environment to appear and processing > >>> sensitive data we have to rely on? > >>> For one, I do impressed how Scope International(Subsidiary of Standard > >>> Chartered Bank) been updating their system, > >>> Sorry, it's not related to FOSS XD > >>> Thank you. > >>> Regards, > >>> CL Chow > >>> "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send > >>> OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general >
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