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Few can have missed the reports that BATS Global Markets is believed to be in negotiations to buy Chi-X Europe. There is a certain logic for closer ties between the two as they both share a number of...
Online banking is about more than cost cutting. Banks are just waking up to its potential for increased revenue and new business opportunities. In this context, online security is not just a cost of b...
According to a recent Visa Europe study, cash is not going away. The study found that 35% of people in 2010 stated that they: "prefer to pay in cash for everything I buy." This is down from ...
Social media has evolved into the fifth major form of media: print, radio, television, Internet, social. While social media functions on the Internet, there’s no denying that it is its own platform. I...
Is it just me or have you noticed that the pages behind the login for your bank haven't changed much in the last 5 or 6 years? According to the omnipresent Wikipedia, Stanford Federal Credit Union wa...
The only difference between a so-called celebrity and you and I is exposure. Their lives are subjected to much more attention than most people and for that they pay a price. Ours is a celebrity obsess...
There has been a bit of buzz lately regarding an Internet “kill switch” and a handful of trusted individuals given the responsibility of rebooting the Internet, should it go down from cyber attack or...
In a recent post (Hackers Play “Social Engineering Capture The Flag” At Defcon) I pointed to a game in which contestants used the telephone to convince company employees to voluntarily cough up infor...
Why is digital identity so tricky? The past decade is littered with earnest initiatives that failed to meet expectations (like the Australian Trust Centre) or consortia that over promised and unde
As the global economies all begin to scamble out of the recession hole the UK could be about to be hit with rapid inflation. The quantative easing strategy work well in the short term bringing some st...
I hope not as they made my student sons life a misery last year as the badgered non stop for loan repayment even though like the majority he was out of work. Beware Banks offering gifts there is alway...
So Chi -X has a mystery bidder! Its not a suprise to me and no doubt others as the MTF model is a lousy business plan in the long term and only great for initial investors looking to grab a return on ...