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If like me you attended the Sibos Vienna Conference your liver will by now be just about moving along the path to recovery, and in the meantime I have the opportunity to reflect on a very hectic week...
A few years ago I was invited to a fancy dress party where invitees were asked to come as their “favourite childhood memory”. It may sound strange, but I went as a giant Monopoly board. I have many ha...
Mobile payments, mobile marketing, mobile trust services, mobile couponing, etc... Several business cases had been accomplished by several banks! SMSs, WAPs, Java Apps, Barcodes had been used and trie...
Americans will carry about $1 trillion in credit card debt by the end of Christmas. Congress has just passed The Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights Act of 2008, known as H.R. 5244. Some of the refor...
London is the biggest international financial market in the world according to established government figures. Financial markets make up approximately 28% of UK GDP and are a fundamental component of ...
Plus Markets Litigates for the Right to Compete under MiFID As all eyes focus on the daily turmoil in the financial markets, it would be easy to overlook a small but significant event in the UK.
Did you know that about 50% of online shopping carts are abandoned at checkout?* Research has shown 41% of online shoppers think that the check-out process is too long.** Even those shoppers who are...
As part of their global tour to promote their new album 'Power Shakes and Super Congas' Sex Panther touched down in Vienna to rock the Hofburg. Despite a few technical problems and working with a redu...
There is a lot of humor now doing the rounds on the credit crisis. Obviously the joke is on us! I got the below mentioned 'request' in my inbox. If only the US Treasury gets so creative as the Nigeria...
Now I know we live in difficult times and just about everything is on the rise but lunch at SIBOS is taking pricing to a new level. With virtually no choice of food on the exhibition floor my colleagu...
I've become a bit of a fan of virtual machines - on those odd occasions when I need to run Windows I do it within a VM on the Mac using VMWare - which means I have a safe, secure installation I can mo...
Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, has clearly warned online advertisers (ie. google) to either come up with solid self regulation and e...