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Goldman Sachs hasn't had the best of press lately. A recent Rolling Stone article went as far as to describe the firm as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly ...
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published proposals that for the first time will 'name and shame' banks with a poor record for handling customer complaints. The proposals would see fi...
Couldn't happen to you? Well, fraudsters stole $1 billion from nearly 500,000 Australians in 2007 alone. This year is proving to be a bumper year. A recent round of phishing attacks against Commbank c...
Since the beginning of the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin has used Twitter and Facebook to communicate with the public. Impostors have taken every opportunity to jack her persona, even hacking in...
The typical coffee machine chat with players and observers of the corporate banking world lately always seems to come back to the massive change over the past year and a half in how banks have brought...
The FBI reports a significant jump in mortgage fraud in the previous year and some bad signs for this year. While perhaps not as great as many other frauds going on the results are not promising. Acc...
I can’t agree more with Hilary Ward from Citi. In her recent article on GTNews, Hilary talks about the benefits of automating the process around on-boarding and bank account management, between corpo...
The mainstream media has been discussing this week, the new instructions to the Financial Services Authority from the UK's chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling. All of a sudden the goverment a...
With increasing sanctions management regulations imposing ever-larger fines and the risk of custodial sentences for CFOs for non-compliance, the issue of sanctions looms large in today’s boardrooms wi...
Twitter is on a few people's minds at the moment, and although it has tremendous potential as a communication tool and is still in it's primitive stages- twitter has provided some unusual insights int...
SearchSecurity.com reports that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a reliable method to predict Social Security numbers using information from social networking sites, data bro
Bit of a follow-up to the Goldman Sachs code stealing shenanigans story. Firstly, Reuters reports that Aleynikov posted bail yesterday. Secondly, the mysterious company that offered to triple his sal...