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Paul writes about P2P lenders seeing a silver cloud in the sub prime mortgage crisis, and subsequent fall out. I wanted to expand a little, on why I at least, believe that to be true. Banks have many ...
Barclaycard has gone all high tech with its marketing for the new OnePulse card and set up a Micro site called ‘The institute for future living’. A fictional character called Professor Danny shows yo...
Cars, jewelry and holidays...for 10 people..that was a lot of money stolen! I just blog'ed this past Wednesday about the lack of news about people getting caught and prosecuted for phishing (http://ww...
The credit crunch may be bad news for traditional banks, but the new breed of peer-to-peer lending operators are viewing the current liquidity crisis as a clear opportunity to take on more business. ...
"The big lesson of the subprime crisis: that it's a mistake to lend money to poor people." "Rich people know how to invest extra money. Poor people just squander it on necessities. That...
Just when you thought that you knew how financial instruments are identified, here comes a new way. One of the reasons why the MiFID Joint Working Group got started back in April 2005 was so that fi...
This past weekend Craig Barrett was in China for the ceremonial groundbreaking on the brand spanking new site for Intel’s latest US$2.5B factory or “fab”. Scheduled to start production in 2010, the fa...
I've had a Palm for years - since they were called PalmPilots in fact - and have yet to find something that's as reliable, lightweight and - well - useful. Enter stage left the iPod touch - lots of t...
That OnePulse card will never catch on. I mean - look at it - it's way too big.
I applaud HSBC and Abbey National for not being lemmings on the European push to chip and pin for online banking. They are considering alternative methods for two factor authentication, that are bot...
Tibco's decision to downgrade its earnings forceasts for the year after experiencing a sudden fall out in contracts at the end of the quarter has spurred some analysts to suggest that that the ongoing...
This week Singapore Airlines (SIA) bought a ~16% stake in China Eastern, a domestic Chinese airline, which is in the worst financial condition of the big three Chinese carriers. This by itself is grou...