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By John Doyle • June 25th 2013 The Payexpo conference and exhibition held last week at the Excel in London was a busy affair. Three main streams a non-stop exhibition and several side events meant t...
As a rule the title of a conference gives you a good idea what the conference is about; not in this case, ATM turned out to be about Mobile Payments and a good thing too! There were a number of intere...
Change always comes at a price, and VocaLink needs to change; and Marion is the price. It would be unkind and unfair to view her time as CEO as a failure because she made a huge difference at VocaLink...
Over the weekend I was ruminating as you do, with a glass of wine in my hand. The object of my rumination was, unlikely as it sounds, SEPA. I know, I know, I need to get a life – but bear with me. A...
See also Recovering Bank Charges - 1Recovering Bank Charges - 2Recovering Bank Charges - 3Recovering Bank Charges - 4Money Saving ExpertBBC Story Yesterday£100,00 fund to fight charges Good news! I ...
See also - Blogging can hurt your employability 1 I was sitting in the waiting room at the Doctors this morning reading an old copy of Cosmopolitan; well I'd never buy a copy - far too raunchy for me!...
The excellent article Chris Skinner wrote re: SWIFT numbers intrigued me. I wondered if you take these very simple parameters and use them to predict growth, what will SWIFT look like in the coming y...
See also Recovering Bank Charges - 1 Recovering Bank Charges - 2Recovering Bank Charges - 3 The 40 days are up and I called the call centre and spoke to Gary. The bank have apparently been trying to...
See Recovering Bank Charges - 1 and Recovering Bank Charges - 2. Just an update I am afraid - no results, yet! I hadn't heard from the Alliance & Leicester so over the weekend I called their call ...
As any politician will tell you, the first 100 days for a new leader are crucial as your audience is receptive, forgiving and open to change; after this though the judgments start to be made and the...
On the BBC World Service yesterday, and today on Silicon.com there comes a new threat to our employment chances - the Blog and other social sites. Apparently HR teams are being encouraged to use the I...
I rang the Alliance & Leicester this morning and spoke to the Call Centre and explained that I had read a lot about the recovery of charges and wanted to know what I had to do to query and possibl...