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An Out Of This World Perspective...

Floating in space in their spaceship, out beyond the Kuiper Belt, Zig and Zag have been monitoring Earth’s newswires. They receive a message from Zug at High Command. ZUG: Report. Should we estab...

21 Oct 2008
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Freeze Fraudsters Out Of Your Credit File Coming Soon

Nick Clegg, leader of the UK Liberal Democrat Party, and David Howarth, MP for Cambridgeshire announced their new party policy on protections against identity fraud during a recent visit to Cambridge...

21 Oct 2008
Whatever...
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There's a sucker and a scammer born every minute

The latest social engineering trick doing the rounds in OZ is the 'Flower/Wine Delivery'. There's a knock at the door and surprise, surprise, a guy delivering a bunch of flowers and a bottle of wine i...

20 Oct 2008
Whatever...
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Inflation Could Be The Answer...!

A bit tongue in cheek, this, okay? The overarching problem we face is the high level of indebtedness. People have borrowed too much, the banks have lent too much, it's becoming impossible to service ...

20 Oct 2008
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Nobody is spared by the phisers, not even the president

Its amazing hos phisers manage to crack into On-line banking sites, obtain user authentication details and siphon money. Multi-factor authentication, bio-metric identification and enhanced security wi...

20 Oct 2008
Online Banking
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Grand Prix budget cuts? - Hamilton's trophy falls apart

I like the Grand Prix and I couldn't help notice the British winner Lewis Hamilton on the podium at the end of the Chinese Grand Prix - his trophy base fell apart as he waved it in victory. I hope tha...

19 Oct 2008
Whatever...
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Dark Market is a Minnow, Perhaps Wall St Needs FBI Attention

Given that Wall St has done more damage to the economies of the world than a thousand Osama Bin Ladens could dream of or any Dark Market cyber gang could imagine, perhaps the FBI could turn it's atten...

17 Oct 2008
Whatever...
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Deal Idea: PFM Acquisition of Billeo

There are scores of start-ups in the emerging financial technology space, many of which provide substantially overlapping services, and all of which are, at some level, free. As we move through the c...

17 Oct 2008
Finance 2.0
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Demand for knowledge transfer in outsourcing?

In an effort to find out what our clients and potential clients were thinking...we asked them. Although the tectonic plates in the outsourcing world seem to shift daily, changing the landscape dramati...

17 Oct 2008
Trends in Financial Services
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Regulation is sometimes good

So the European Commission is proposing to repeal Regulation 2560/2001, considered as the inception of SEPA, and replace it with a new Regulation with extended scope to cover SEPA Direct Debits. That ...

17 Oct 2008
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Rise of the No.2; Did they try harder?

Remember the legendary tag line from Avis - 'We try harder'. This gave words to the might of the No.2. Is the credit crunch reversing the league tables in global banking? Consider this - - Till about ...

17 Oct 2008
Transaction Banking
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My Credit Reference Record Should be....Mine?

One of the items in my spam folder tonight is an email from Experian offering me a free trial for access to 'Credit Expert', so that I can view my credit reference. Obviously, the intention is for me...

17 Oct 2008

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