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Archive for: December, 2012

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 28/12/2012 | 2764 views

My name is Guy. Mr Same Guy. I show up in as a so called private customer off hours, then during working hours as a corporate customer, as a citizen in public sector services and often also as a member of associations, clubs etc. My point is that there are no corporate customers, no private customers, no citizens etc - only human customers or user... Tags: Mobile & online, Payments

Henry Woodcock - Avelo - Cirencester | 21/12/2012 | 3446 views

Ten Months of the Mortgage Market in 140 characters or less

Ten Months of the Mortgage Market Social Media in 140 characters or less A selection of my tweets on the mortgage market over the last ten months - at last the market is recovering albeit slowly. March Stamp Duty - It may only be March but the holiday’s over : Do the numbers stack up? http://t.co/X0bNPtFT How a buy-to-let boom has transfo... Tags: Retail banking

Pat Carroll - ValidSoft - London | 17/12/2012 | 2479 views

Looking back at 2012 and ahead to 2013

On data breaches and forms of attack: resistance is futile In 2012, we have seen an increasing number of sophisticated attacks made on a range of organisations in an attempt to capture consumer information. In 2013 we should not only expect such attacks to escalate in terms of frequency and significance, but for traditional defence technologies t... Tags: Mobile & online, Payments

Alexander Peschkoff - TEDIPAY - London | 11/12/2012 | 2889 views

iPhone 5S and NFC

NFC World ran an article on 5S "likely" to have NFC, citing investment bank Jefferies who said that "based on our checks, likely updates include a new super HD camera/screen, a better battery, and NFC." I wonder what those "checks" were... Supply chain inventory? Design drawings? Or details of Apple's commercial model of adding NFC to iPhone? Acc... Tags: Mobile & online, Payments

Rupert Fallows - KPIT Cummins - Reading | 11/12/2012 | 2433 views | 3 comments

How Automotive Telematics Reduces Car Insurance Fraud

How Automotive Telematics Reduces Insurance Fraud? We all know that are car insurance is going up because of whiplash cases, bad driving by a certain age group and EU law but how can we push back and make it more difficult for motorists to do a fraudulent claim and secondly reduce insurance for good driving whether you are male or female? One of ... Tags: Risk & regulation, Retail banking