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We've changed the top navigation bar - you'll see a new link - Members area - which takes you instantly to your personal home page, or a login page if you are not currently logged in. Also a slight b...
Over at NetBanker, Ron's wrote about the notion of PFM (Personal Financial Manager, eg Quicken) and that will not be the solution to bringing the last holdouts into online banking. In particular, h
Banking giant HSBC has been forced into an embarrassing u-turn over interest charges on graduate overdafts following a successful protest campaign on the Facebook social network organised by the Natio...
Computer scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from the Netherlands, are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore ...
University graduates are furious at a decision by HSBC to charge interest on previously free overdrafts. UK broadsheet The Guardian reports on how thousands are now turning to Facebook in a 'viral ca...
News this week from Las Vegas about telcos offering rewards for information on thieves stealing live cable got me thinking about the possible cause of Internet bank Egg's woes this week. C&W, whi...
First Data's acquisition by an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) received domestic and US regulatory approval today. In recent weeks, as the US sub-prime mortgage crisis spread to ...
I was chairing a conference panel session recently. One of the panellists represented one of the UK stock exchanges (you mean that there’s more than one? Whatever happened to the idea that exchanges...
UK payments body Apacs published a PIN security advice guide for consumers late last week reminding cardholders of the continued threat from counterfeiters and shoulder surfers. Despite the introducti...
As a university student, I had to work one vacation at the local dockyard unloading freighters. On my first morning, a crane lifted a pallet-load of hundredweight (50 kg) cement bags from a recently-...
The BBC mention an interesting project combining short range wireless system Bluetooth with the all-conquering social timewasting networking site Facebook. The idea is that your bluetooth phone looks...
Some of us sad people actually have to read chunks of regulations and directives and consultations. Most of us commute, which leaves little time to get past Page One of a heavy document without falli...