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Praise be! The FT has resurrected Martin Lukes, the deluded and corrupt former chief of fictional company a-b global, who disappeared from view some years back after being convicted of insider trading...
Following the recent global downturn and the implications for consumer lending, credit card offerings have come under the spotlight like never before. In the United States, for example, new credit ca...
Bloomberg's global identifiers for all asset classes are now available for free. A move that will be applauded by most standards and identifier evangelists. However, as most veterans of the standards ...
This comes direct from a PayPal press release, announcing that more than a dozen developers have created a new generation of applications built with the PayPal X global payments platform. Here's a sa...
The good advice has always been to have a long password. Cloud computing has a silver lining for hackers or anyone with a decent limit credit card. The guys at somewhere (if you need to know I'd be ha...
For the past year, I’ve been screaming about the trouble with social media as it relates to identity theft, brand hijacking, privacy issues, and the opportunity social media creates for criminals to “...
There’s no gamekeeper like an ex-poacher, and no saint as devout as the sinner that repenteth. Once people change their minds about something, they tend to overdo it. The past year has seen a rush by ...
Well, the Grand Prix season is over for another year. All that remains is for Finextra to award the bottle of champagne to the winner of the Finextra Formula One League: And the Winning team is: Kin...
Those that are regular readers of my blogs will recognise the news today that the government is splitting up the bailed out banks, which was always my preferred way of getting a return for the tax pay...
"I believe what we have here is a better deal for the taxpayer," so says Alastair Darling. No it isn't. The best thing for the taxpayer is for these institutions to be nursed back to healt...
An interesting news item caught my eye this morning on the BBC News website, that I thought might prove of use/amusement/alarm to you. Interesting that Lord Myners also thinks that there is no long t...
It is indirect, the industry representatives used to say. Then the stories went to the difficulty to provide climate change- or sustainability-oriented mutual fund products as they underperform the ma...