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A place to share stuff that isn't at all fintec related but is amusing, absurd or scary.
Nothing could illustrate the depression in the M&A markets more than the news that Christiano Ronaldo's £80 million transfer to Real Madrid ranked as the seventh largest deal in the whole of Europ...
UK supermarket chain Tesco opened its new banking headquarters in Edinburgh yesterday. The retailer is looking to cash in on consumer disenchantment with crisis-stricken traditional banks. Chief execu...
While this may have some use in preventing any Tom Dick or Harry ringing up and and impersonating a customer, it does not prevent the sort of fake call centre scam proving popular with criminals at th...
Are you aware of the new controversial 118800 mobile phone directory which launches next week? Do you want to learn how to opt out of it? Start up firm Connectivity (www.118800.co.uk) has bought lis
Everyone has to pay and pay. The local council is the beneficiary of all sorts of payments from residents. Parking, rates, fines, permits etc. Rather than use several third parties to gather all these...
Many cities across the world are switching over to Pay by Phone Cashless Payment at Car Parks. The market leader is Verrus (www.verrus.com) who has contracts in over 100 cities across UK & North ...
Fortunately this fake call centre scam is easy to pevent. These customer's data may have been previousy stolen, or perhaps something as simple as reading the person's mail and determining they were Bo...
While the President has his hands full bringing world peace and the usual things expected from a US President, back home there is the big issue of identity and privacy hindering the American informati...
We’ve all heard, and will no doubt continue to hear, lots of explanations from Members of Parliament accused of abusing the Expenses Regime, often blaming the ‘system’. Actually the Green Book 2009 ...
Merrick Bank has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Savvis, accusing the vendor of erroneously telling it that CardSystems Solutions complied with Visa and MasterCard security regulations...
To say that I am an evangelist for mobile financial services would be an understatement, but I confess to experiencing purely personal delight at the pace of mobile financial services. That pace is sl...
Another day, another sorry tale of dirty tricks, identity theft and corporate espionage on the Finextra news beat. Intrigued? Then read on. I promise you won't be disappointed. A couple of weeks back ...