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Admittedly, I only saw the news reports last night, but I can’t help having the feeling that the Treasury Select Committee missed a great opportunity yesterday. What the news reports showed was our l...
More competition in the already hyper competitive payments market. A new entrant noca.com is challenging the supposedly old guard. I suppose you can call Paypal old guard even though lots of people st...
If the level of generosity and sharing amongst Australians in response to the bushfires is anything to go by, we've really nothing to worry about. Donations of more than $31 million have already been ...
I don't need to convince many Europeans that there is a change in the weather, and what we are experiencing in Australia is certainly enough to convince me. The weather is getting wilder. Sydney went ...
Bold thieves wielding shotguns and wearing balaclava's robbed an armoured car refilling ATM's in Sydney of more than $1,000,000. The robbers held a shotgun to the throat of at least one guard as they ...
The scale of the Australian bushfires was overwhelming and tragic. Such serious loss of life could have been prevented. The fire's fury could be foreseen, and observed in progress, but for a total lac...
Is short selling really bad for your investments' health? There’s been plenty of debate about the rights and wrongs of short selling, but while regulators ponder intervening in the CDS market, they se...
The Interchange Fee is part of the Merchant Service Charge (MSC) paid by a card acceptor (merchant) to a card issuer. Some reports state that the Interchange Fee can be 66% - 80% of the MSC and
President Obama has reacted to the excess payments on Wall St by proposing to limit salaries to $500,000 for senior executives of banks which get a bail-out. It won't be retrospective, so those who ha...
Last week, Finextra carried a report from Cifas that UK fraud rose 16% in 2008. The recession was blamed for more Brits turning to crime. A big part of the increase was also attributed to a 207% jump...
In tough economic times, it's easy to and sometimes extremely necessary to rethink projects and initiatives that will not have an immediate impact on the bottom line. But there are some projects that...
"An attorney in Atlanta has filed a class-action lawsuit against RBS WorldPay for allegedly failing to protect personal information." This problem can be eliminated altogether by allowing ca...