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I read the recent research on why online shoppers abandon their shopping carts at checkout (payment). While a shopper's economic circumstances play a substantial part, the research supports the view I...
For too long now the perpetrators of malware have been getting away with targeting our banking sector and each time we think we are getting somewhere they seem to be one step ahead while gradually rai...
Apple just suggested to IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) the HTTP Streaming to replace the RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) and even Flash and Silverlight. HTTP Streaming The purpose of thi
I was reviewing my investments this weekend, like you do. Not that there’s much to review, especially after having been Gordoned over the last 12-18 months. Anyway, I decided that one of my ISAs was...
You can usualy be sure that if you see a feature update on the lives of teenagers (what gadgets they are using what slang falls from their mounths...that kind of thing) you can be sure that the inform...
I wrote back on 10th June about How to Opt out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 The controversial service has been overwhelmed by users rus...
I generally find the subject of banking, risk management, payments and so on to be pretty serious stuff. After all I have spent my entire career dealing with the various aspects of all of this. I mu...
You just accept deposits and make loans with high margins. If you are a start-up bank you just pay more for the deposits and then place the money in high-earning but still quite secure loans and inte
I had the opportunity to host a dual birthday for two popular 16yr old girls and 50 of their friends, from diverse ethnic backgrounds recently. It was enlightening. The party had plenty of advance pla...
Slap any number of digital signatures on an electronic invoice and still you cannot guarantee any integrity and authenticity. The legal harmonization debate in EU is unfortunately still wrongly focusi...
Banks in the US are on the receiving end of long overdue examination into their practices in relation to overdraft charges. Transaction 'reordering', 'delaying' and other handy little systemic sleight...
Why, when a Bank will hound a defaulting mortgagee for 50 years for repayment, adding new charge after new charge and top rate interest on top, can a Bank get away with the idea that its debts will be...