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Sibos has SEPA and survival top of opening plenary agenda

Price and cost reduction featured heavily in today's opening plenary with much emphasis on the co-operative nature of Swift. But all of this discussion is set against the backdrop of - not to put too ...

15 Sep 2008
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Calls for Swift to tap Web 2.0

In a lively conference session on the opening morning of Sibos 2008, Till Guldimann, vice chairman of SunGard, told delegates that the increasing use of Web 2.0 technology was "a wake up call for...

15 Sep 2008
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Android - it sounds like something you should avoid

The iphone was an innovation. It was really different in feel and function to previous handsets. The Android doesn't appear to be such a great leap forward. Google's new Android phone has met with mix...

15 Sep 2008
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Tim Berners Lee announces the web foundation

Have a look at www.webfoundation.org Sir Tim Berners Lee has been talking about the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation. It has three broad areas - Web Science and Research, Web Technology and ...

15 Sep 2008
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How many roads must a man walk down...

Before Sibos is over? So, another year older and so too another Sibos, this my third. Although still a relative novice, I have pondered in the past just how much distant a Sibos delegate without a sta...

14 Sep 2008
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Is Google censoring searches now?

There is an interesting post on ZDnet. an 'anonymous reader' did a quick search for the terms 'google spyware privacy'. The results: Yahoo: 48,500,000 for 'google spyware privacy' MSN: 14,800,0...

14 Sep 2008
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FDIC Bank Insurance Fund

The FDIC’s mission to maintain stability in the U.S. banking system is partially fulfilled by the deposit insurance program. The FDIC collects premiums from banking institutions to fund the deposit

13 Sep 2008
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Mobiles are building up trust

I'm not suprised that people are beggining to trust their mobile phone more. There's a festival going on in the Bristol UK, http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/blog/2008/09/12/everything-costs-too-much-igfest...

12 Sep 2008
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How secure is your mobile phone?

If you use a 'smart phone' well then it really isn't very secure at all. Probably less so than using the average PC to connect to the internet. Apart from the numerous features available to hackers to...

12 Sep 2008
Information Security
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SEPA might not yet have delivered on its promises

...but SWIFT may be part of the solution. It's fair to say that the SEPA Credit Transfer go-live in January this year has been something of a non-event. SCTs have not taken off and volumes remain lo...

12 Sep 2008
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The downside of automated trading

The publishing of an old article about a 2002 bankruptcy-court filing by United Airlines (UAL) on Google news on Monday has highlighted the downside of using automated and algorithmic trading applicat...

12 Sep 2008
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Banking and Web 2.0

In the future web 2.0 will be critical to a bank’s success as people get more involved in using the bank to conduct transactions online banking. Additionally people are using social media sites at an...

12 Sep 2008

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