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As I’m sat in a Lufthansa plane writing this, I will try to explain this question very logically. The Germans have a useful word – “Konsequent” (pronounced “Konsekvent”). If you are being Konsequent,...
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At last some positive news from overseas for Bob Greifeld and the Nasdaq stock market. The decision by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited to extend by five years a technology support deal with O...
Many years ago, in another company, I remember hearing a Customer Support representative shouting down the phone at an important client, “You seem to be trying to make your problem into my problem!” ...
John Shepherd-Baron, the former De La Rue executive credited with inventing the first ever cash machine back in 1967, now believes that the ubiquitous ATM will be made redundant within the next three ...
When I worked at SYS - The School of Information Systems (as it was then known) at UEA back in the early 90s, I was told that the funky building we occupied was cleverly designed to take excess heat ...
Ever wonder what it’s like to have your identity stolen? Fighting back now, an identity theft Web log set up by Karen Lodrick relates an everyday personal story of identity theft, the lackadaisical ...
One of the things we've found during the beta testing is that the way we manage and display communities could be better. We've had quite a few set up that have remained empty and maybe overlap too muc...
The initial target of the UK Faster Payments scheme seemed a simple concept to deliver - eliminating float (the three days gap between funds leaving the payee's account and arriving in the recipents) ...
Consumer confidence in the retail banking industry has "eroded significantly", with an overwhelming majority of UK customers - 71% - saying they do not trust their banks, according to resear...
The developing world and its booming Trade activities still remain very keen on traditional instruments such as the Letter of Credit (LC) and will most likely be for years to come. Even in the US, arg...
Visa has partnered with Burger King to promote the use of plastic cards instead of cash in the fast food sector. Over the next three months Burger King customers paying for meals with Visa will qualif...