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Given the level of malware we see evading virtually every anti-virus or security fix internet banking has never been less safe. At present the most sensible course of action is to put a freeze on your...
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Rural Payments Agency’s Single Payment Scheme uses a £350 million IT system to pay farmers the right amount in EU subsidies. But the Natio...
IT is blindingly apparent how to compete in the big bad world of investment banking (stinking). I don't suppose I'll be getting too many investment offers but to tell you the truth their money stinks ...
Praise be! The FT has resurrected Martin Lukes, the deluded and corrupt former chief of fictional company a-b global, who disappeared from view some years back after being convicted of insider trading...
The good advice has always been to have a long password. Cloud computing has a silver lining for hackers or anyone with a decent limit credit card. The guys at somewhere (if you need to know I'd be ha...
The US has been drafting laws covering internet copyright, libel, protection of sources etc. The UK libel laws are somewhat fierce but I don't know whether the finextra.com gives any protection. There...
We missed this first time around, but it should definitely be on the Christmas shopping list for all self-respecting Finextra Community members. Crunch - the game for utter bankers is a devious card g...
I note that since the wimps who don't like to hear the truth about their dogdgy products bleated I've been banned if I mention the word mobile. So today I'm going to tell you about my little fling wit...
There is an article in the newspaper quoting Peter Hanlon expressing the view that branch closures may have been a tactical error which reduced the quality of service and damaged the customer relation...
A heart-warming story currently doing the rounds in financial circles. A trader at Natixis Bleichroeder Capital Management was apparently so distraught at the unfolding boy-in-the-balloon saga that he...
Fresh off the news that Nomura required female executives to attend 'tea making' courses - now comes the news that the Asian bank has banned 'gay' nail polish. Before the Gay and Lesbian Alliance sta...
I gave up talking about identity theft. That horse has bolted and the barn door has been wide open too long. As I predicted some time ago, ID theft , and personal data theft enabling ID fraud is so ra...