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Most people know the blackberry as the crackberry due to frequent addiction, sufferers sleeping with it under their pillow was not unusual. Now the real fun is starting with iPhone and Android coming ...
Security and authentication were only ever a spend if it involved cutting costs, either in the process itself, at the call centre, and as an after thought if fraud impacts on balances or the bank's ba...
I was in Reykjavik, Iceland on the Monday when the Icelandic economy meltdown occurred. By co-incidence I was also on Wall Street when the 1997 crash happened and being in both locations was, I promi...
Following a report in The Telegraph earlier this month that described the international scale of what is known as a “supply chain attack” powered by Chip-and-PIN readers across the globe (http://www.t...
It isn't hard to see why customers prefer to do their banking and bill-paying using a PC, rather than a mobile. Well it is hard to see, and that's the problem. Those tiny little mobile screens aren't ...
A recent article in the New York Times has provoked some heated discussion as to the level of culpability banks and credit reference agencies share for the credit crash after it was revealed that they...
I'm just wondering what will happen to my bank statement when contactless takes off - assuming I use it. When I think about the large number of cash payments (30p here, 60-odd p there, a couple of qu...
Executive compensation is in the headlines again. And guess where? Nowhere else but than about executives at the failed Lehman Brothers. I see that the failed investment bank's CEO, Richard Fuld, has ...
In 1927, Heisenberg putforth uncertainty principle to the world of quantum physics. It stated that, more precisely the position is determined, less precisely momentum could be determined. The unc...
What processes and decisions lead a company to create an offshoot of their main brand? I get the direct bank concept and the attraction; however it appears that the common theme is to basically make ...
Wouldn't it be better for the public's perception if a few hundred million pounds was spent eliminating most fraud, rather than spend vast sums without any effect? I think it's about time to get real....
Usage of credit cards are mostly seen at department stores, more over card campaings and loyalty programs surround consumers to supersede cash payments and the competition between merchants and credit...