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AFP has published this year's report on Payment Frauds last week. As always, year after year more corporates have indicated they were victims of payment frauds. From Banker's point of view, this high...
According to APACS figures, 15 million people in the UK now use the Internet to access their bank accounts. To protect themselves, consumers must be vigilant and treat any unsolicited contact from a k...
I question the sanity of those at the helm of Verizon, after David Weinberger, co-author of the Clue-Train Manifesto reported a letter he received from Verizon to the New York Times. Verizon is selli...
1. There are hackers and always will be. They will always be 'smarter' than everyone else. 2. No average user can ever hope to 'secure' their personal data. 3. No corporation can secure data which can...
What the 20 heads of state at the G20 continually fail to understand is the plight of individuals and how that impacts on how well we will recover from this mess. How could they, as they are all insu...
After the biggest financial crisis in history, which defied most people's imagination, humbling even China, the G20 have come together and agreed to a course. Congratulations. Perhaps the most signif...
According to the BBC - and who doesn't follow Peston these days ..... On behalf of the G20, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the following steps: Bankers' pay and bonuses will be subject to stri...
Well Kev, you're getting the unemployed to predict the future on penalty of fraud charges and imprisonment, so why not do the same to your ever so un-prescient economists? The latest thing to come to...
I see lots of commentary (on the crisis). I read some of it. Generally it makes poor reading. I see people complain that the head of an auto maker gets fired, and they ask why the heads of the banks d...
65 per cent of firms reference adequacy of existing system as major OTC operational issue As the dust settles on the central counterparty debate the spotlight returns to the internal issue of oper...
Relationships between capital markets industry participants and the market data vendors servicing them have never been as strained as they are now. To understand why, it’s important to understand how ...
I have reason to believe there are one or two US retailers with financial services squarely in their sights, and are looking to pull a Tesco in the US. Some retailers might just score a bulls-eye with...