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Entertainment Industry Bubble To Crash Next

I spend a lot of time in Australia and of course I use the internet. I have always believed that the actions of internet users are their own and do not 'belong' to the Internet Provider. Sabiene Heind...

20 Nov 2008
Whatever...
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Microsoft to offer free virus protection

A handful of interesting stories caught my eye today all involving malware. It was reported by The Register that a rare example of a Trojan capable of infecting Macs had been discovered masquerading ...

19 Nov 2008
Michael Fuller

Convenience Store ATM Fraud

About eight weeks ago I got my wife and I Shell MasterCards from Citi to buy fuel with. This was prompted by the offer of 3% off our fuel purchases at Shell. (6% in the first 60 days from account ope

19 Nov 2008
Elton Cane

Will government backers stifle innovation?

Will state involvement in bank ownership stifle innovation at those groups that have taken bail-out money? As banks step back from serving the low end of the economy, which is perceived as too risky, ...

19 Nov 2008
Innovation in Financial Services
Elton Cane

Invent your own currency

What do you do when the bills are piling up, but you're a bit short of the government sanctioned fiat currency? Well you could try paying your bills in a more creative manner - as a man in Australia ...

19 Nov 2008
Paul Penrose

Lehman's IT legacy

Lehman Brothers ran its operations through a worldwide network of 26,666 servers and employed an IT department comprising some 6000 staff. This technological legacy has created some interesting operat...

19 Nov 2008
A Finextra Member

Banks should return to single capacity

It's been over twenty years since "Big Bang" in the UK where single capacity business was abolished in favour of duel capacity. Single capacity was where brokers could only deal on behalf of...

19 Nov 2008
SEPA and European Payments
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Settlement begins

At last weeks EMXCo quarterly update Max Wright their CEO and mastermind leading the way in bringing STP into the investment funds announced the exciting news that they have the first firm using settl...

19 Nov 2008
MiFID
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Premium Bonds Rate Cut Not Matched For Student Loans

I heard on the radio this morning that the prize fund for premium bonds has dropped. The reason given was because of the drop in interest rates, and so therefore the chances of winning money through ...

19 Nov 2008
Online Banking
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Helping to understand the challenges of Faster Payments

FastPayments.co.uk are undertaking a survey into the current state and progression of the scheme following its public launch some months ago. We are interested in understanding an industry view of t...

19 Nov 2008
UK Faster Payments
Steve Ellis

Trader shoots himself: trading suspended for 15 minutes

The story of Brazilian trader Paulo Sergio Silva, aged 36, shooting himself in the chest on the floor of the Sao Paolo Commodities & Futures Exchange has been covered by news sources ranging from ...

18 Nov 2008
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London Pub - The French House

I say pub - it's kind of something more. Yes there's a restaurant upstairs but it's not just that - it's genuinely different and a little eccentric. It's tiny. It's packed. The walls are packed with i...

18 Nov 2008
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