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Application no-nos

It’s that time of year when new graduates will be updating their CVs and sending out covering letters in the attempt to find a job and get their career off to a flying start. But as this article in th...

05 Sep 2008
Women in Technology
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Club Penguin Day in the market. Had a bad day?

Health Warning: Bearish view follows. Big reshuffle lately in the global power game of market caps. The persistent record volumes on the LSE and others are just the beginning but market value is heade...

05 Sep 2008
Innovation in Financial Services
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Using Word to compose your blog post? Take care!

If you're using Microsoft Word to compose your blog post - I recommend you just use it to write the text - don't bother with any formatting. Paste it into our system using the paste from Word or paste...

04 Sep 2008
Finextra site news
Richard Barr

Dow Jones and CCE Launch Global Emissions Index Series

Here's an interesting development. This is neither tangible goods or real service being turned into a derivative of sorts. I just read that the "Dow Jones Indexes and the Chicago Climate Exchang...

04 Sep 2008
Paul Penrose

Ibos and Swift at loggerheads over Alliance Lite

Swift chairman Yawar Shah opened an unexpected can of worms when he approached shareholders for feedback on how the bank-owned co-operative could add more value to its members. Obligingly, Ibos MD Bo

04 Sep 2008
Finextra@Sibos
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Is Big Brother Manipulating You Through Your Browser?

The latest offering from google - chrome is nothing short of spyware. If you use it you're crazy. Take a good read of the EULA before you give your soul to the devil. Google Chrome Terms of Service No...

04 Sep 2008
Whatever...
Stanley Epstein

Let the innovators innovate!

If you really want to boost the EU's economic fortunes, improve its competitiveness and facilitate its progressive adaptation to the digital age then you need less regulation, not more. And the best ...

04 Sep 2008
Innovation in Financial Services
Stanley Epstein

Is this a disaster in the making?

If the Misys data are correct we are sitting atop a volcano that is just about to blow! Firstly forty one percent of failed cross-border transactions is appalling! This means that almost every second ...

04 Sep 2008
Operational Risk Management
Richard Barr

Who's paying the EUR 21bn?

Let me get this right... The banks are paying EUR 21,000,000,000 a year for payments not going STP? Not likely! SEPA directives are quite clear in what information a customer must provide for a SEPA ...

04 Sep 2008
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Who is going to take on the Central Banks?

It's all very well that there is missing or incorrect reference data such as IBAN and BIC, but some things seem so simple to address, and yet they somehow fall by the wayside... It is a given that one...

03 Sep 2008
SEPA and European Payments
Anthony Cossey

Chrome

Chrome was a slow starter for me after I downloaded and installed it today, a clash with Symantec Endpoint Security (SEP), part of our corporate desktop setup, caused the browser to crash each time i

03 Sep 2008
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I take it all back - Chrome isn't bad

It is indeed speedy and easy to use - and to my relief Finextra works in it. If it turns out to be as stable and reliable as Google claim - I reckon they could be onto a real winner here. Whether it'l...

03 Sep 2008

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