Risk, Fraud & Security
A Business Unit for Every Kind of Customer?
The other day I was asked an intriguing question by Dan Baker of B/OSS World and the RA Roundtable: what if a large telco...
Collins and Silvestre on M2M and NFC Assurance
Look here for an interesting interview of Simon Collins and Sergio Silvestre by Alex Leslie. The WeDo duo talked about the fraud and...
Taking a Robust Approach to Accenture’s Research
On the surface, Accenture's 2011 report into risk managment for comms and tech firms tells us a generally positive story. Businesses are taking...
MACH Acquires OpTel Informatik
MACH, the global clearing house business, has purchased fraud management vendor OpTel Informatik for an undisclosed sum; see here for the press release on...
Virtual Currency Under Fire
Fans of Bitcoin, the digital currency, will tell you it is safer, cheaper, freer and more transparent than ordinary state-backed currencies. The currency...
Who owns Risk?
An interesting article from CFO.com.In my limited exposure to risk management organisation design I have never encountered risk being owned by the CFO....
Subex & Swisscom Win Award for Sharing Fraud Risk
Swisscom and Subex have walked away with the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award in the Business Service Innovation category. The two companies innovated...
Solar Flares and Satellite Comms
Could storms on the sun disrupt our communications infrastructure? Yes, they can... and do. The potential impact of solar events on satellite...
Less Text, What Next?
Our recent discussions about revenue assurance, business assurance (or whatever we call it these days), confirm the one constant in the telecom industry: that...
Survey Says 27% of Companies Buy Network Liability Insurance
A new risk survey by Towers Watson, the US professional services firm, reports that 27% of companies buy insurance to cover the risk of...
Teaching the Importance of ERM
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is so global and diverse that it has rapidly been incorporated into the syllabus of business schools around the world....
Data Roaming: Tax, or Punishment?
Regular followers of Tony Poulos will know of his crusade against bill shock - the heart-stopping moment when a customer looks at their bill...
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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