State Bank group deploys anti-money laundering software

August 25th, 2007 Several people are having a bad experience with State Bank Credit Card, myself included. The whole operation smells, run by outside-minimally-paid agents and there are gaping holes in the system which can rob your blind.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - Satyam Computers' cup of woes seems to be overflowing, with news surfacing Tuesday that the software vendor has been debarred by the World Bank for alleged data theft and bribing bank officials. Fox News, a US-based broadcaster, said the World Bank has admitted to it that it had banned Satyam from all business at the bank for a period of eight years - and that the ban started in September.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - The World Bank has said it has banned leading software vendor Satyam Computers from all business at the bank for a period of eight years - and that the ban started in September, according to a US broadcaster. The World Bank move came after bank investigators discovered that spy software was covertly installed on workstations inside the bank's Washington headquarters - allegedly by one or more contractors from Satyam Computers, broadcaster Fox News said.

September 16th, 2009 American Express, Adobe, General Mills big moversNEW YORK — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: American Express Co., up $1.19 at $35.84 Analysts concluded that industry data shows the company is positioned to best recover from recent high defaults and delinquencies. Warner Music Group Corp., up 33 cents at $4.87 An analyst upgraded the recording company and applauded its decision to tap capital markets for permanent financing.

October 7th, 2009 Agents arrest dozens for theft scheme in US, EgyptLOS ANGELES — Authorities said Wednesday they have arrested 33 people in breaking up a crime ring in the U.S. and Egypt in which an elaborate "phishing" scam bilked bank customers out of at least $1 million.

June 30th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A 28-year-old woman lost RM19,000 after her cyber 'lover' tricked her into parting with her savings to help him start a business. She had thought that the cyber love affair was genuine after the stranger, purportedly from Ireland, popped the question.

July 18th, 2009 CIT Group falls off S&P 500 indexNEW YORK — Standard & Poor's is replacing the struggling CIT Group Inc. with software maker Red Hat Inc.

June 9th, 2009 APNewsBreak: Group says poker winnings are frozen WASHINGTON — An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. The Justice Department long has maintained that Internet gambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges.

February 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Tuesday moved the Company Law Board to remove the board of directors of Maytas Infrastructure and Maytas Properties, the two infrastructure firms promoted by the family of B. Ramalinga Raju, the disgraced founder of Satyam Computer Services.

September 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala's IT sector will generate as many as 200,000 jobs in the next five years, state Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan said Thursday. Inaugurating a conference on IT in Kerala - Challenges and Opportunities, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here, she said over 200 rural IT Parks (Techno Lodges) are expected to come up in the state in the next two to three years.

July 13th, 2009 Company seeks return of seized poker winningsWASHINGTON — A payment processor that handles the accounts of online poker players wants a judge to order the return of about $14 million that the company says was illegally seized by the federal government. Account Services Corp.

May 14th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Companies based in the Technopark IT industrial park here will join hands with the Kerala government to strengthen the AIDS awareness campaign in the state, an industry official said here Thursday. The Group of Technopark Companies (GTECH), a body representing the chief executives of the Technopark firms, has adopted a corporate policy on HIV/AIDS that calls for strengthening the awareness campaign among among the member companies and employees, the group secretary, Satish Babu, said.

February 26th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Maytas Infra, the infrastructure firm owned by the son of disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computer Services B. Ramalinga Raju, has filed a criminal case against Vedanta Aluminium and eight of its employees for 'fraudulently' encashing bank guarantees without terminating a contract between them.

January 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - India's largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), has decided to retain its contract with scam-tainted information technology (IT) firm Satyam Computer Services for maintaining its Internet banking services, a top bank official said here Thursday. 'We are not at all thinking of changing Satyam as our vendor for Internet banking services.

May 13th, 2009 AGARTALA - Alarmed by a spurt in cyber crimes in the northeastern state of Tripura, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has launched an investigation to smash the racket, an official said here Wednesday. 'The cyber crime racket comprises both Indians and foreign nationals,' Tripura police spokesperson Nepal Das told IANS.