Newsletter: GCash advances a culture of saving among Filipinos

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GCash user utilizing the app for their everyday transactions

GCash marks Savings Consciousness Week by promoting a culture of saving among unbanked and under-banked Filipinos, giving them access to easy, convenient, safe, and high-earning savings.

Newsletter: Kaspersky supports INTERPOL-coordinated action to disrupt Grandoreiro malware operation

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Kaspersky has assisted an INTERPOL-coordinated action, which has led to Brazilian authorities arresting five administrators behind a Grandoreiro banking trojan operation. According to conservative estimates, the banking trojan operators are believed to have defrauded victims of more than 3.5 million euros (more than PHP 214 million).

Newsletter: Here's How You Can Protect Yourself from Phishing Attacks

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Whenever you receive an SMS, chat message, or email from an unknown sender, be on guard. Protect yourself from phishing, smishing, and vishing scams and keep your personal details and your money safe. In case you’re not familiar with these scams, here are some important things to know so you won’t fall victim. 

Newsletter: RCBC and RCBC Bankard intensify anti-cybercrime efforts, removes clickable links on all emails, SMS, viber

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The Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) and RCBC Bankard have removed all clickable links in all its communications to clients – including emails or electronic direct mailers (eDM), SMS, and Viber – as part of efforts to intensify drive against anti-cybercrime attacks. 

Newsletter: RCBC’s DiskarTech gives free 1000 telemedicine packages to frontliners, riders

02/07/2022 04:37:00AM

Author's Note: It may be 2022, but RCBC continues to help out our frontlines in overcoming the challenges brought by the pandemic. The Yuchengco-led commercial banking company has recently provided support to today's important workers in the education, transportation, and other industries that provide essential services. 

Read more in the press release below.

Kaspersky expert says 2019 witnessed the start of banking Trojan outbreak in APAC

10/23/2021 5:03:00PM

Kaspersky has discovered that a banking-related Trojan outbreak has almost coincided with the start of the on-going novel Coronavirus pandemic, a sudden health plague that totally-changed the landscape of the world today. 

Kaspersky advises local finance sector to improve threat intelligence

05/16/2021 01:40:45 PM

As digital money transactions soaring high during this ongoing pandemic period, the financial sectors need to take a critical look at their integrated security and improve their threat intelligence capabilities.

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky told the statement in their recent press release.

“For the large majority of cybercriminals, easy money is the prime motivator. And the financial sector is uniquely positioned to be a target of attacks regardless of season because it’s always where the money is. The growth of digital financial services in the Philippines, like in other parts of the region, is creating new and heightened risks for both service users and service providers. In this case, technology will be the game-changer,” said Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager for Southeast Asia, Kaspersky.

Double Trouble? Banking malware comes with another trojan

11/22/2020 02:31:02 PM

There's a new banking malware on the loose as Kaspersky researchers recently detected URL addresses that not distribute a malicious .ZIP file for Windows, but also a malicious file that appeared to be a downloader to install a new banking Trojan.

UnionBank: AI, the venue for customers to acheieve aspirations

11/24/2020 12:52:24 AM

There are two technologies that have been utilized by a lot of industries in today's world – data science and artificial intelligence, or collectively known as DSAI. 

Since its inception,  artificial intelligence has brought about many exciting prospects that have ushered more personalized, “tailor-fit” digital experiences for many of us in such a simpler, more instantaneous, and more convenient manner.

As Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) is now in the next phase of its digital transformation journey, the country’s leading digital bank has continued to invest in talent, infrastructure, and other resources needed to innovate and co-create using data science and AI, which is led by global data science expert Dr. David Hardoon Ph. D., as the Bank's Senior Advisor for Data and Artificial Intelligence.

UnionBank's 5th E-TalkTales talks about driving change in corporate banking with The Portal

10/21/2020 10:17:59 PM

The past month saw the UnionBank of the Philippines staged the fifth installment of its E-TalkTales Series. With Mon Duarte, UBP's Head of Transaction of Banking at the helm, this session tackled the Bank’s various transaction banking solutions, particularly The Portal, its all-digital banking platform for corporate clients.

Newsletter: UBX - Changing the Face of Banking

09/18/2020 10:01:27 PM

Author's note: UnionBank of the Philippines continues to revolutionize banking through its tech innovation and investment arm.

In a virtual presser held earlier in the month, the specialized division –  titled UBX –  has recently announced they are building platforms for digitally and financially underserved communities while aggregating and virtualizing financial services to embed in the platforms of others. Learn more of them in the press release below:

 

Banking in time of COVID-19 crisis: UnionBank hits the road with its 5G mobile banking van

03/31/2020 05:25:28 PM

UnionBank of the Philippines has stepped up its game in mobile banking in time for the ongoing pandemic era.