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A place to share stuff that isn't at all fintec related but is amusing, absurd or scary.
Recent events have really let the cat out of the bag with all sorts of unknown actors likely to have access to your secure....ha hermm....token. Not just the usual types. Oils aint oils, when it comes...
Yesterday (Wed) we had Sony being not very re-assuring, saying "While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided y...
I recall some 25 years ago being told via e-mail to change the Bank Account that my employers Direct Debits would be credited to from a High Street branch of Lloyds to one in a small local village wit...
I've worked with Epsilon on a few occasions over the years. Hilton Hotels has outsourced all of the processing associated with their HiltonHonors Loyalty program to Epsilon, which includes having your...
In case you didn't notice, people have been doing bad things. Normally one can rise above the riff-raff, and 'that Dictator isn't bothering my children', that corporation 'isn't directly affecting me'...
Be interested to fully understand how it works - for example : a) how does the recipient get informed that the funds are available? b) if they go to the ATM to withdraw the funds as Cash, what are th...
NAB cleaners dumped rubbish bin bags containing personal medicare, licence, passport, birth, address, employment etc in dumpsters not even the bank's bin. This meant that accessing the information wou...
Clearly if the entire banking system ruled by the US driven data sharing and transaction reporting rules can't find billions freshly stashed by fleeing dictators - the whole effort is a joke. A joke o...
All the arguments about cards, banks, credit card companies are completely demolished by events in Egypt. Cash. Gold. The rest is worthless. Try feeding your family when your salary goes into a bank, ...
WelI you can guess what I'm going to write about. The North of Africa is hotter than the deserts that fringe it. Even in Cairo despite hundreds of thousands being in the streets the citizens confess t...
Troubled times seem to create an opportunity to display ethical behaviour. The recent events in Tunisia have given the banking community a perfect opportunity to display their ethics. Some have done w...
Wikileaks data along with a campaign led by Tunisian students and reinforced by the cyber individuals known and being anonoymous( #anonymous) has led to the overthrow of the Tunisian Dictator. I hear ...