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It is interesting to see the commentary in the press about the 'part-nationalisations' of the three banks. It was also illuminating to see the Chancellor on Newsnight last night, being very shifty ab...
The move towards Internet telephony seems to suggest a new line of security issues. Given the extensive use of Skype and other internet telephony tools, due to their inherent economical costs, it is b...
Just a thought, but the shareholders of Lloyds, HBOS and RBS presumably will have to pass board resolutions allowing the boards to a) issue the preference shares and b) issue sufficient new ordinary s...
Finextra is terribly search-engine friendly, so an interesting side effect of joining the full Finextra community is that you can find yourself quite high up in search results if you go looking for yo...
Excel is a powerful tool. Like a chainsaw, in the hands of a skilled operator it is hugely effective – but in untrained or rushed hands and without the proper safety equipment it can be positively dan...
" Surely the stockmarket can't go any lower" Alot of people have been asking this question recently and wondering if its time to step in to the markets! After five days or so of heavy losses...
Now that governments across Europe have part nationalised the banks perhaps we can get away from the hysteria in the media, which is focussing too much on the market value and not on the underlying. T...
As banks are in the need of funds, new, innovative ways of attracting deposits are more interesting than ever. A new online financial service from the U.S. offers an ebay-like auction for new deposit
With both the Olympics and Para-Olympics now over and the vestiges of Olympic advertising slowly being removed from billboards around China, it is getting back to business as usual in China, or as usu...
Conventional wisdom says that if merchants will just comply with PCI (payment card industry data security standard), then crooks will not steal card data from merchants. Under this wisdom, the US Fede...
Apple have announced their new range of Macbook computers which they claim are the greenest currently on the market. They're also possibly among the most expensive too with the base model coming in at...
An interesting story on Finextra that Barclays are to create over 200 new call centre jobs in Liverpool. A lot of reasons why this is interesting. One is that with the credit crunch it's good to see...