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Bar the LSE’s recent mishap, trading systems are getting astoundingly fast. Over the last few years the race to develop the fastest systems, with the most streamlined and slick infrastructure has inte...
In the light of recent protests we have seen a flurry of announcements from the companies most keen to steal all our personal data, right down to our thoughts almost. Washington Post reports: Amid g...
A report, from the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, stated that a network scan from the IRS Computer Security Incident Response Center identified 2,093 potential web servers wit...
Singing the latest buzz words with Credit Crunch, Compliance Checks, it definitely time for banks to be cutting costs especially after writing off almost $148 billion dollars. So with coming years in...
What the CIO of Barclaycard predicts will happen, I believe, will happen; but as with all technological developments, it will take time to become adopted. Cards themselves have still not totally re
It is pleasing to note that the Godzilla of the Web Google Inc and banking behemoth HSBC are joining forces. Their union is for a good cause - providing high speed internet to the next 3 billion who a...
Loyalty just isn’t working. While the statement may be a little sensationalist, to a large extent this is unfortunately true. In too many cases loyalty certainly isn’t working how it’s meant to. Custo...
Vista has been discussed on this forum. And as someone who was cornered into buying a laptop with Vista Home Basic last year. 'groan'. This is what Microsoft is now showing in the US to make us love V...
Antony Jenkins, CEO of Barclaycard says contactless chips have huge untapped capability, but the plastic around the chip limits its potential. "Take the plastic away and the possibilities are end...
Richard Holway adds some pertinent comments to this story on the possibilities for further shake outs and/or consolidation in the BPO marketplace in his post here - many of the players involved in th...
I am surprised there has not been more comment on this, within the forum. The last LSE outage also happened on a busy trading day--the end of the UK tax year. Although it was pre-TradeElect. While the...
If you're an old Sibos hand you'll know there are prize draws and freebie events every day. Cocktails, wine tasting, competitions, open sessions - all sorts. So - why not sign up for our free hospital...