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After a merger those who practice the dark art of PR are always keen to emphasise how well things are goings. Staff are settling in nicely and technology is integrating with ease. However, today's Wal...
NAB has made the first move to remove overdraw fees from personal accounts. Fees as high as $33.00 are charged for overdrawn accounts. In what I think has been tantamount to theft, banks have been cha...
Jason Truxel was denied a mortgage because of bad credit. He had no idea that his credit scores were low, so he pulled his credit reports. He discovered a tremendous amount of debt, and accounts he h...
The EU court has erred, in fact had a complete brain snap. 11 word snippets or quotes are copyright infringement? (that's only 8) Hows this for copyright infringement? Once upon a time in a land far f...
I wrote back on 10th June https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 and 13th July about the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3057 Good n...
I have written before about EMXCo the messaging system for Unitised Funds owned by Euroclear and how they continue to add new important institutions and intermediaries onto their system. It has just b...
Yesterday’s FinExtra webcast entitled “Transcending the client experience” discussed some important emerging themes with regard to how banks are starting to view their client facing trading technology...
Computerworld does a great job of aligning the childhood arcade game of Whac-A-Mole and information security. “If you’ve ever played the silly, maddening game known as “Whac-A-Mole,” you know what fu...
Wow! Are we all PCIed out? The Network Solutions breach was announced on Friday 24th, and four or five days later we still haven't heard any accusations about whether they were or were not PCI compli...
CFTC to Hold Three Open Hearings to Discuss Energy Position Limits and Hedge Exemptions First Hearing Scheduled for July 28, 2009 Washington DC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today
I had a thought while I was checking out the electric car offerings and can really see where electric cars might be disruptive to iPod users, perhaps downright dismembering. Maybe the solution is to b...
Never one to post only on up to the minute stories, the blog was quite interested in the Finextra report a fortnight ago on "man in the middle" fraud in call centres. I just haven't had a ...