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There’s no gamekeeper like an ex-poacher, and no saint as devout as the sinner that repenteth. Once people change their minds about something, they tend to overdo it. The past year has seen a rush by ...
Well, the Grand Prix season is over for another year. All that remains is for Finextra to award the bottle of champagne to the winner of the Finextra Formula One League: And the Winning team is: Kin...
"I believe what we have here is a better deal for the taxpayer," so says Alastair Darling. No it isn't. The best thing for the taxpayer is for these institutions to be nursed back to healt...
An interesting news item caught my eye this morning on the BBC News website, that I thought might prove of use/amusement/alarm to you. Interesting that Lord Myners also thinks that there is no long t...
The US has been drafting laws covering internet copyright, libel, protection of sources etc. The UK libel laws are somewhat fierce but I don't know whether the finextra.com gives any protection. There...
I decided to write this after seeing a summary of Aite Group’s report concerning U.S. cardholders and their experience abroad. It states that “The promise of ubiquitous card payments acceptance falls ...
I found an article in The Times just now that I thought was somewhat unsettling. For those of you that do not want to wade through the entire article, here is the crux of the issue: “Thanks to a new ...
I note that since the wimps who don't like to hear the truth about their dogdgy products bleated I've been banned if I mention the word mobile. So today I'm going to tell you about my little fling wit...
On Friday we were treated to the news that the UK economy is still in recession contracting 0.4 per cent between July and September 09. This economic data gives extra significance to some recent CPP r...
The concept of “machine readable” until a few years ago was something of an alien concept. Now a person only has to think of travelling to realise that reading machines are taking over with the use of...
Five days to go and the SEPA Direct Debit start date is finally upon us, but is anyone in the industry taking any notice? As many have commented, it is not the ‘start dates’ but the ‘end dates’ that h...
I found this great analysis concerning this VSMR new release : http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=42938028 Another outrageous revenue projection "Based on the current...