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APACS released the latest figures on UK Card fraud - http://www.apacs.org.uk/2007Fraudfiguresrelease.html It really shows how good criminals are in quickly exploiting 'systemic' loopholes. UK spent m...
Among the doom and gloom in capital markets across the world, the only stray streak of silver lining appears to be the impending IPO of Visa Inc. Much has been written by analysts on whether Visa can ...
The current flavour of the spring season looks to be 'Sovereign Wealth Funds' - SWFs , as we lovingly call them. Looks like SWFs are here to stay and will keep us glued to their doings. The European ...
The credit card industry is on the edge. Being a card issuer is not the most comfortable feeling now. After the mortgage meltdown, an impending consumer recession, falling interest rates, regulatory p...
I guess it is time now for us to wash our hands and prepare to use our fingers for ID, put our eyeballs into readers, submit our faces for reading..... At long last, the ISO has released a standard f...
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity", so goes a wise crack. The way the world is going in 2008, it looks like Debt and Fraud are going to the two most co...
While the US (and the world) is groggily trying to get back on its feet after the mortgage sucker punch, the knockout punch seems to be flying in! The toxic sub prime home mortgage debt of USD 900 B m...
So, the world's most sought after junket in Davos has come to a close. The economic bigwigs, CEOs, intellectual heavyweights have returned after a week of heavy duty deliberation on climate change, fi...
Biff!! Bang!! Kerplunk!! -..... These would be annotations if a comic book artist were to draw a strip on last week's events in the financial markets. The industry now looks like how the Roman Army is...
Our new world of Web 2.0 promises to leave you with less guilt pangs in life. I got this feeling earlier this week when I received an invitation to sign up to www.bet2give.com . The tagline is "...
The onset of the New Year gets me thinking on what are the likely fads and buzz words in 2008. 2007 has already enriched our vocabulary with 'sub prime' , 'Ninja loans' and other such terms that a Cr...