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Oh Vienna

As you probably know, the annual Swift bash is taking place in September and as you might expect Finextra will be shipping out a crack team for on-the-spot coverage of key issues, events and the inev...

04 Jun 2008
Finextra@Sibos
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Turquoise to launch on 5th September

Turquoise chief executive Eli Lederman told delegates at the Mondo Visione Exchange Forum that the bank-backed equities trading facility will begin offering trading on 300 stocks across 14 markets on ...

03 Jun 2008
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It takes the biscuit

A new study has found that the quality and type of biscuit presented in a meeting can make or break a deal. A survey of over 1000 UK business professionals conducted by Holiday Inn found that the cho...

03 Jun 2008
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Mobilisation - The Art of War in Transaction Space 2

(C)WAP is a waste of time for mobile banking and too slow for most uses and will just lead to pain and suffering by both consumers and banks, not the least because of security, but by all means try an...

02 Jun 2008
Innovation in Financial Services
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Aussies put the spin on banking fees and profits

These statements on the ABA website and a linked article on their site. New data on payments fraud shows that while the value of transactions continues to climb, the incidence of fraud remains low. ...

02 Jun 2008
Whatever...
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25 percent of US computers infected with malware

Here's something to keep you awake at night - the OECD reckon one in four computers in the US are infected with malware of various forms. It's all highly sophisticated and getting more and more devio...

02 Jun 2008
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Not building the trust!

It seems strange that banks would want to push their users to sign-up online, when the service they're offering will be used over the phone. It's not going to help out with the trust in the system (ht...

02 Jun 2008
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The world's most expensive web sites?

I think I'm turning into Angry of Tooting as a couple of stories had me choking on my tea late last week. First off was the bafflingly high cost of the EU scampering after the Web 2.0 Strategists with...

02 Jun 2008
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Tackling corporate scepticism towards Sepa

The news that ING and Atos are partnering to provide Sepa-compliant payment services to both banks and coporates followed a report released last week which stated that corporates are still very cautio...

30 May 2008
EBAday
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'Getting more efficiency out of women'

The above may make us laugh but was in fact the title of a guide for male supervisors in the 1940s. We may complain that we still have a long way to go to achieve gender equality in the workplace but ...

30 May 2008
Women in Technology
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5 ways to prepare for the risk of lower interchange

When Australian banks got hit with mandated interchange fee cuts, virtually all of them reacted the same way. They devalued their rewards currencies and increased the annual fees charged to cardholder...

29 May 2008
SEPA and European Payments
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ID fraudsters targeting wealthy Londoners

The "typical" ID fraud victim in the UK is a high-earning professional, aged between 26 and 45 and a homeowner, according to Experian's dramatically titled 'Victims of Fraud Dossier', which ...

28 May 2008

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