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Love it, hate it, but you simply can’t ignore it. In recent years, few things have attracted more attention than the social networking phenomenon. With Facebook’s population adding up to the third lar...
Make room in the rulebook for the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Finextra reported Thursday that support for a “system to help regulators and industry participants monitor systemic risk” is growing
‘Dividend Achievers’ is the latest term used to describe the companies that have increased their dividend payout each year for the last ten or more consecutive years. You may have seen them referred t...
An informal foundation meeting was held in Brussels on Thursday (5th May, 2011) of the proposed European E-Invoicing Service Providers Association. In many ways this initiative is long overdue and is...
The recent data breach at Sony has triggered another round of debate on third party data security. While it is all fine looking at the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), classic ...
I wonder what the Japanese is for “when you are in a hole it’s usually a good time to stop digging?" I read the new Sony press release with some bemusement; the one with regard to the loss
With the cessation of cheque being reviewed after numerous petitions, it seems there might be a stalemate between the group who believe in the ongoing modernising of payment collection processes and
The past 30 years has seen billions of dollars spent on payments systems - with financial institutions building up a plethora of different systems and technologies designed to meet specific needs and ...
So they decided to exclude FX derivatives from the requirement to clear centrally. A case study in unintended consequences? The effect of a pair of interest rate swaps can be synthesised through a no...
Andy Schmidt, TowerGroup's research director for commercial banking and payments, has recently commented on the differences between mobile operating systems and the propensity for banks to develop app...
Someone recently asked how I feel about QE2 wrapping up at the end of June. This has been a big deal for a while, and I’d like to pose the question to you too. But first some contemporary context. Peo...
FBI's recent report states that between March 2010 and April 2011, the FBI identified twenty incidents in which the online banking credentials of small-to-medium sized U.S. businesses were compromise...