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UK insurance group Admiral has ended talks with private equity investors about the sale of a stake in its price comparison Website confused.com. Admiral says the potential suitors put a valuation on t...
Recently I crash landed on INGAsia-Blog and noticed post about Financial Advisor Blog. Its certainly an innovative idea, to have forum for advisors and (not just customers but)any registered users ...
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has tapped Michael Capellas to take over as CEO of First Data when its $7 billion buy out goes through later this year. Capellas made his name as a corporate turnaround artist...
If you've not heard of Blendtec, then be aware they manufacture kitchen blenders and have a truly inspired marketing team. This month on www.willitblend.com/ they are having a go at seeing if the iPho...
I heard something pretty shocking today from the head of CRM at Turkish bank Garanti. Apparently if you go into one of their branches you have to swipe your bank card before receiving a ticket and wai...
The Register has an article on a plug and play phishing kit which automates the installation of a complete phishing site. Handily it's a single file (PHP script) which handles the whole tedious busi...
I heard an interesting snippet the other day about IBM's plans to target the high performance computing needs of Wall St. and the City with blade servers based on its powerful Cell processor. IBM deve...
That seems like a pretty fair question, since it’s hard to find someone who can give me a straight and understandable answer, and since some parties are claiming that “the industry is migrating to ISO...
As the main UK payments body, Apacs forecasts payment trends, conducts market research and collates industry statistics. Publications such as ‘The way we pay: UK plastic cards 2007’, come with a £25...
I remember seeing a study a few years back that said that buy-side firms didn’t always want immediate trading. One of the arguments was that if you’ve spent months researching and defining the invest...
The more that you travel, the more you recognise how monopolies aren’t in the interest of customers. Anyone who flies between the UK, Germany, Scandinavia and France can probably tell you endless sto...
RIM has just published some research that shows how incredibly efficient BlackBerries make their owners. Apparently your average user converts an hour of downtime into ‘productive time’ every day. In ...