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This is the absolute best time of the year to be a dishonest temporary worker. Holiday hustle and bustle overwhelms managers and supervisors and they can’t possibly see everything their employees are ...
How convenient for the BoE to blame the current problem with old and tired 5 pound notes on the recession, and then push for the high street banks to take action. Weren't they doing exactly the same ...
Although channels have been the top focus area for banking innovation in recent years, they haven’t run out of steam. Most banks today have a good vision for their channel strategy – one that builds a...
I attended the Quant Invest 2009 event for the first time last week in Paris. The event is all about quantitative investment strategies with an institutional asset manager and hedge fund focus - so no...
The days are drawing in (in the Northern hemisphere at least), its dark, its cold, and its busy in the lead up to Xmas and the New Year. A lot of money is taken out of ATMs this month. Its a good ti...
Is it the end of the road for women’s networks? Elizabeth Harrin from The Glass Hammer blog wrote an interesting piece last week based on this question after attending an event hosted by Morgan Stanle...
Cases of phishing attacks and hackers attacking customers’ email and bank accounts are occurring on a regular basis. In October CIFAS, the UK’s fraud prevention service, reported nearly 60,000 identit...
As Finextra community members are well aware, digital security is a hot topic of debate and there's little consensus out there. Enter the Global Trust Council, a non-profit that is proposing a seriou...
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/12/sonera-showing-way-in-finland.html Charging for paper invoices has been a touchy subject in Finland even if: - all experience shows that transparent pricing (pro...
The indictment of Albert Gonzalez for the theft of 130 million credit and debit card details from Heartland Payment Systems caught the headlines recently. Not for the indictment in itself or that Hear...
Easily the most unusual literary success story of the year, the Jane Austen inspired mash-up novel which inspires this blog title is terrific trashy fun. If you are looking for a quirky Christmas pres...
Trusteer's release on the connection between phishing and individual's loss of log in information is quite interesting; what's needed for the financial technology and security now is to create an actu...