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Here MSN and Yahoo! are each running a story by PA's Oliver Teves, that states 5.5 million Filipinos are using their mobile phones as virtual wallets to store cash and transfer money. Apparently, one...
Over here in Boston it’s blue skies and sunshine as Sibos gets ready to kick off. But it’s not the only event in town. This weekend has also been the quarterly meeting of ISITC (International Securi...
Just spent three days in Newport, Rhode Island, at FISD’s World Financial Information Conference - WFIC. This is the largest financial market data event in the world. One of the problems that many o...
Noting Chris has been posting on innovation & techie musings at his blog I thought as a change from strategic debate one might observe some tactics that are going on and share these with you... ...
The FT reports that SmartStream's bookbuilding for its IPO is not going quite as well as hoped, and that it probably won't be reaching the £300 million figure it said earlier this month it wanted to ...
So if I've read this Finextra item correctly - you just wave the thing over a reader with no questions asked. Is this a mugger's dream? How many low value transactions could someone run up before the ...
Advanta, a US based financial institution, with a big focus upon providing credit cards to the small business market place has used the Demo event in San Diego to launch IdeaBlob. IdeaBlob harnesses w...
In Europe, we’re seeing exchange consolidation, mergers and acquisitions. One of the interesting situations is Boerse Berlin buying into Equiduct, which itself is based on the Easdaq exchange that wa...
Bank of America customers are the targets of a new phishing scam which uses the Verified by Visa anti-fraud programme as the bait to lure victims. “Your Bank of America card has been automatically ...
Lead Toys With recall troubles dating back to 2005 when a toddler in the US ate a loose magnet and later died, the toy manufacture Mattel has been in the centre of a toy recall that has thousands of c...
Interestingly, this was exactly the topic of conversation at a couple of CIO / CTO level Information Security dinners that we have hosted in the city recently, and follows hot (OK, warm) on the heels ...
That's the opinion of Ted Leonsis, chairman of RevolutionMoney, describing the new RevolutionCard, which was released in the US today. The PIN-protected card offers a line of credit, $15,000 top-up ...