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Card schemes reach orbit through perpetual spin

The marketing spin by the card payment industry espousing (misrepresenting?) the virtues of yet another security initiative to add to the great list - here remember another password for the internet...

23 Sep 2008
Innovation in Financial Services
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Real markets for real people

I've often read that the percentage of end-user activity in the Interbank foreign exchange markets on a daily basis is somewhere between 1% and 3%, and I suspect I could probably find a similar perc

22 Sep 2008
Trends in Financial Services
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Seems I'm not the only one disturbed by Smile's approach

Interesting article here on Smile's implementation of Verified by Visa. This is from PC Pro with a contribution from reader Matthew Cunliffe. "I was surprised when they told me they were going to...

22 Sep 2008
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Changing your profile picture!

If you want to change or upload a picture for your profile (ie: the one that appears against all your blog posts) then you do that from the right hand panel options on your home page when you log in. ...

22 Sep 2008
Finextra site news
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Phishers take AIM

https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18325 Banks should offer solutions that consumers would readily take up because the solution solves the problem and because they feel secure and confident abo...

22 Sep 2008
Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
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MANDATORY Verified by VISA and UCAF SPA

Well, I'm glad APACS pointed out that the rise in 'take-up' is because of making it mandatory for cardholders. Not all merchants use these solutions, so the security coverage for cardholders is quite ...

22 Sep 2008
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Wall Street is history

Wall Street is history. Official. The news from New York that Wall Street's last two investment banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are to convert into tightly regulated bank holding companies mark...

22 Sep 2008
Trends in Financial Services
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Sexist men earn more

Sexist men it appears can earn more than their more enlightened counterparts according to a US study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. The study kicked off in the late 70s(!) and asked a...

22 Sep 2008
Women in Technology
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Short Selling

The fact that the USA, UK and Japan have put short selling bans into play should not be seen as a long term solution to control the markets. The UK has set the ban until the 29th January and restricte...

22 Sep 2008
MiFID
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Collaborate or die

Now we are all back in the office, it is timely to reflect on last week at Sibos, momentous by any measure. The Closing Plenary certainly caught the mood, but interwoven throughout that session was a ...

22 Sep 2008
Finextra@Sibos
Sriram Natarajan

Rankings on financial development

The World Economic Forum has released the inaugural Financial Development Report. This report ranks the world's leading financial market-countries on where they stand across various parameters. See he...

21 Sep 2008
Matt White

Jagger wants e-commerce satisfaction

Mick Jagger is joining a load of industry bods - including Steve Jobs - to draw up a report on barriers to e-commerce within the EU. He was asked to help out after taking part in a roundtable discussi...

19 Sep 2008
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