Virus alert Fraud with Internet Banking
E'allarme new virus scam for people who work with the 'Internet Banking, in fact these new viruses are able to copy the access codes and passwords and pass them to the thieves.
Only in 2007 were taken from the accounts of Italian citizens around one million euros.
The spoils of 2008 is expected to exceed 3 million.
Bank robberies in the twenty-first century are now on the internet and without the need for guns you stole from 12 million accounts in Italy are allowed to operate via the Internet.
The latest virus is called Mebroot and is able to steal access codes and passwords of customers.
The home banking, which for several years allows us to comfortably pay your bills from home or make transfers is the main objective of the bandits of the network.
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Italians prefer the banking and trading online to file at
Leave home and go to the bank is not difficult, but do everything at home is better.
So think 12 million Italians who, according to the Bank of Italy, have visited the sites of banks during 2007.
There are 8 million Italians who use the banking and trading online. Users who access the password-protected areas, ie areas of customer service, are 5.3 million with a growth of one million individuals in the year. But the challenge for the player lies in converting visitors to clients in public areas and users of online services, it is many millions of people. L 'favorite activities for those with an account that is digital information, and consultation by account lists and movements, while less than half the customers, that is 2.3 million, use sites like running for charging the phone or the payment of bulletins and taxes. Generally prefer to bank customers are digital experts and enthusiasts of the Internet. In December 2007 the site users of credit cards was 3.6 million, of whom 1.2 million are active customers, ie those with login access to restricted areas where consult your balance or alter the set of safety. But not all banks offer full services online. Banks completely digital allowing any activity, so teams and Unicredit IntesaSanpaolo can apply for opening an account directly on the site. The Bank of Italy confirms that the largest of connections there are the more developed regions: Lombardy with the first million customers in 2478 for services to corporate and home banking, followed by Piedmont (1271 million) and Lazio (1227).
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The market risk of derivatives losses
The market risk of derivatives losses for several hundred million dollars if a major operator in the instruments used to protect themselves from insolvencies were collapsing. The operational issue that most worries Moody's Investors Service is the fact that the market for Cds not yet undergone any tests with respect major events in the area of credit, ol'insolvenza of a major counterparty. Cds I reference in the world have segnanto new highs in March, sull'attesa that banks could face shortages of liquidity as a result of losses on securities tied to the "easy loans". Who was in hand Cds with a bankrupt counterparty would find difficult to replace the contracts, say analysts, estimate that around 2000 billion dollars that cost. "An event of this kind, moreover, would lead to a increase in corporate bond yields below "Moody's stresses.
The market for credit derivatives grew by 87% in 2007 and covers a notional amount of 62,000 billion dollars in debt. The cost for the protection of insolvency more than doubled since last July, in tandem with the deterioration in credit quality
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