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It depends on the goal of the site. Financial product comparison services like moneyaisle.com or filife.com are more an opportunity than a threat to the banks. If a bank has good products or conditio...
I've been busy lately pursuing Democratic Identity. DI. Forget your regular ID, that's been stolen. It's been stolen by criminals and mismanaged by governments. The criminals are busy robbing computer...
A few weeks ago, I finally got around to reading the cover story, Bitter Medicine in the latest issue of Trade Finance. Wrapped in some truly nice metaphors involving the Wild West and Casinos, the au...
For all you organised people out there, who have bought their 2009 diaries already, take note: on Tuesday 3rd February, womenintechnology.co.uk and the British Computer Society are holding W-Tech 2009...
As requested by the community, we're now providing an individual RSS feed for every Finextra community member. All you need do is post a blog item and you'll see an RSS logo appears on your postings. ...
One hopes that the MPC has considered fully what will be the consequences of the rate cut. Presumably, they think that this cut will help get the economy moving by encouraging people to spend. I'm n...
One of the phrases that bugs me at the moment is 'hard working families'. Gordon Brown uses the phrase often, usually to preface an announcement of what he's going to do to 'help them'. I think I'm ...
This kind of news actually make the Central Bank of UAE and authorities in the UAE truly 'seem' uninformed. Anyone in the payment security business (fraudsters as well) know that this will not solve t...
More often we see evidence of our collective inability to fend off internet criminals in our life no matter how many temporary fixes and patches we put in place. Refer here for an example yesterday. ...
So ... Barclaycard have introduced a slide-and-go payment system that allows a punter to leave the office via an alternative exit, purchase a banana in the supermarket and then head off, via the libra...
Apparently online sales are still doing quite well, despite the credit crunch. Anyway, rather than leave it to the last minute I thought I'd start my seasonal present research early this year while pr...
Brian Krebs at Security Fix reports that Apple appear to have made an interesting U-turn on the whole virus on a Mac thing. "Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple anti-virus utilities ...