By leveraging the social connections in a network like Facebook or MySpace, phishers could send messages to a site's users that seem to be sent by a friend, and suggest visiting a page infected with bank code stealing software.
In the year to come, security professionals are warning of bank code-stealing exploits that are much slicker and more convincing--hidden in guises as harmless as a banner ad on a reputable Web site or a message from a friend on a social network.
Bankruptcy, though trumped up by bank and car bailout apologists as code for disappearance, really only means a positive change of ownership.
The Bank of England describes the Merlin numbers like this: "these data are not collected under the Bank of England's statistical code of practice and definitions of data vary across banks".
With a few tweaks of software code they can expand the bank's capacity from 20 simultaneous customers to 500.
The Bank Secrecy Act and the Internal Revenue Code both require reporting by United States persons concerning their foreign financial accounts.
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The review, which will be published, is intended to identify how Barclays' business practices and culture needs to change, and to produce a new, mandatory code of conduct for the bank's staff.
The hope of Barclays is that a single code of conduct for the entire bank can be written and procedures put in place to make it effective.
And it is interesting that, for him, the fundamental question is whether it is possible to have an effective single code of conduct for a universal bank like Barclays, when the motivations and instincts of investment banking traders and branch managers are so different.
The league tables would be compiled by independent monitors, who would grade each bank on its compliance with the industry's code.
In fact, that makes simplifying the tax code (which according to the World Bank takes a typical Brazilian company 2, 600 hours a year to comply with) more important than ever.
Dr. SKRAPEC SYNC: Right now if there is a criminal like a serial killer or bank robber, they are able to print in the code, 'cos each face you make has a particular code, a number for the eyebrows and a number for the nostril.
The proposed reforms include a new tax code, liberalisation of agriculture and the gas market, bank regulation and faster privatisation of big companies.
Last week, he told the bank's 140, 000 employees to sign up to a new code of conduct, or leave.
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Barclays boss Antony Jenkins has told the bank's 140, 000 employees to sign up to a new code of conduct, or leave.
Since they are a self-declared seller of prepaid access (MSB code 413), they now must comply with a litany of Bank Secrecy Act requirements, including Suspicious Activity Reporting.
My thanks to Adrian Lloyd from the Banking Code Standards Board, to Stewart Cliffe from the National Association of Bank Customers, Rebecca Fernley from Consumers Association and Simon Pitkeathly representing the banks.
But it comes at a time when the Metropolitan Police and other forces are warning the public about fraudsters phoning people pretending to be their bank, and persuading them to part with their card and divulge their Pin code.
The bank said customers should bring photographic identification and account details (account number and sort code) and a pay-slip if the balance did not reflect any salary payments.
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