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The trading and exchanges environment is like the Olympics of the finance sector in performance terms, but in recent weeks we have seen a series of announcements by the leading exchanges as they seek
Hotmail, Earthlink, Google, Yahoo, Comcast and other web-based email users have been giving up al their login details to phishers and current estimates are as many as 1 million accounts may have been ...
The Financial Fraud Action UK results released yesterday clearly show that the battle against fraud is far from over in the UK. Despite this, the statistics suggest that the UK is doing comparatively...
Passwords and forms harass and mock me every day of my life. Everywhere I go there is a big burly bouncer who is the password gatekeeper and he needs a beating. He won’t let me in or by the velvet rop...
Today’s figures from Financial Fraud Action UK are both good news and bad news for UK banks and consumers. The fact that card fraud losses have dropped 23 percent recognises the work that the bankin...
Ubank is celebrating it's first birthday by having a giant Pass-the-Parcel competition in Sydney next to the MCA this week. They're attempting to break the Guiness Book of Records and they're tempting...
As the dust settles on the credit crunch, it’s clear that banking has entered a new era. While it remains to be seen whether banks will heed the lessons learnt from the past two years in the long-term...
Whether you realize it or not one of the biggest threats to your personal security is your computer. And the Obama administration is bringing to light the fact that they believe, and you should too, t...
With an increasing pressure on revenue and margins, corporate action losses are becoming more difficult to absorb within the business. The risk profile has not changed, but the ability to absorb these...
Some indicators suggest that overall bank payment volumes are falling. However, the big banks have continued to see their volumes increase. Some of course have seen massive growth as a result of the m...
Back a while now I made a few predictions and offered a few suggestions in my finextra blog. They were to do with what was about to happen. It appears that I had a pretty good handle on the future. O...
I got an email from someone today asking: 'when I wrote RIA, did I mean Rich Internet Applications or Registered Investment Advisors?' Of course, it is the sloppy journalist who relies on jargon (or a...