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Honor Roll: This Week's Top Bank Blogs (Nov. 29-Dec. 5)
Our favorite banking technology-related blog posts from around the Web (November 29 - December 5, 2009):Buy a TV at TD Bank?
Celent's Jacob Jegher takes a look at TD Canada Trust's new "Shop MyAXS" web site. The site, accessible only by TD Visa cardholders, claims to offer deep discounts on brand name retail products. "The big question here is can TD encourage consumers to switch to a TD Visa by offering them shopping discounts?" Jegher writes. ---
Online banking and Fraud: The Search for the Missing Link
"What's needed now for financial technology and security is to create an actual correlation between these two events (everyday online consumer behavior and criminal activity) and the final 'missing link' of actual transactional fraud," writes James Van Dyke of Javelin Strategy & Research in his blog post on the connection between phishing and an individual's loss of log-in information. ---
In another recent post on the Celent Banking Blog, Bart Narter shares a SunGard executive's view on software as a service (SaaS). It's an example of how a SaaS vendor can also be a SaaS consumer. ---