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When Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, I wonder whether he realised the impact this new technology would come to have on people’s lives. Use of this new device wasn’t instantaneous...
Here I was, baggage, family et al, in a new country, waiting to join my new employer. I was excited at the new career that I was about to chart out and was really looking forward to get to my new offi...
The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) 2009 summit upped its efforts last week to strengthen economic integration in the region. While APEC has always strived for greater economic integration i...
Many companies rely heavily on hedging – which may be defined as the process of using financial instruments to reduce or eliminate the risks resulting from fluctuations in the market price of credit, ...
There was an interesting article in the FT yesterday about how IG Index (the spread betting company) will now be connecting to Chi-X and, I assume, other MTFs too. The story reminded me of how MiFID...
This is example is indicative of the state of financial services governance in the UK: In 2000, Egg (internet-based credit card company), suffered a major data loss and could only recover account re...
Database security & inegrity is an issue that should be taken very seriously by an organisation. I'm going to be, hopefully, brief and non-techy..... SQL injection hacks are common knowledge and ...
And so another story on the gender pay gap. The good news? The gender pay gap has narrowed over the past year and is apparently at an all time low. The bad news? It has only dropped by 1%. Let’s look...
The latest monthly statistics show the number of new identity fraud cases reported to CPP stands at its highest level since we started selling the insurance product back in November 2004. In October, ...
Having worked for many years as an IT architect in UK banking, the failure of a major banking system like this doesn't come as much of a surprise. UK banks, while regulated and held to relatively stri...
Given my fairly loud views about green browser bars and snake oil (in case you haven't read them - basically I put them on a par with the guys who sell those pills alleged to make one's parts bigger)....
Given the level of malware we see evading virtually every anti-virus or security fix internet banking has never been less safe. At present the most sensible course of action is to put a freeze on your...