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IRS yesterday issued Notice 2011-53. This Notice is the third that addresses the US law that was enacted back in March 2010 - the Hiring Incentives to restore Employment Act. Title V of that Act was...
Isn't Google extraordinary? We hear today from our friends at Experian HitWise that fully 92% of all searches in the UK are undertaken through Google. Blimey. 92%. That's a lot. For all the effort tha...
The news from the UK Payments Council that cheques will no longer be forcibly scrapped in 2018 has, perhaps inevitably, received mixed responses. For the banks, issuing, handling, securing and process...
I was recently browsing, when I came upon an interesting article. It was discussing the Monty Hall problem. For those of you who don’t know, this problem is based on a US quiz show and has caused ...
What is the point of Facebook and Twitter? Many have asked. Are they really there just to eat into your productive time? Aimlessly looking through the endless new feeds of people who you didn't bother...
The world of mobile financial services here in the UK is coming on leaps and bounds following recent announcements from Orange and Barclaycard, and also from O2 to bring mobile contactless application...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve followed an animated discussion about the total costs of core transformation on a banking discussion forum. Two interested parties are at work: first, bankers who balk at...
As I discussed in a recent blog, new payments technologies and platforms are fast taking off in Asia Pacific. Previously, I looked at how developed countries such as Australia and New Zealand are at ...
Banks in United States are in an exciting technological time: The eruption of mobile as a platform for payments and its transformation into a new place of banking services in their customer's hands. B...
The recent spate of high profile data losses aptly demonstrates the many ways in which data can go astray and reinforces the need to have every potential leakage point protected. Whether it is Wikilea...
In my last post, I discussed the recent findings published in the 2011 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey which concluded that the rate of payments fraud attacks remains stubbornly high. Continuing...
In my earlier blog I mentioned 7 innovative concepts a bank should embrace. Summarized, these were: Contextual relevance, social relevance, multi-channel presence, fun, simplicity, interactivity and ...