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As everyone who has ever watched or read a science fiction thriller knows; there is always an evil scientist somewhere in the background to blame. Frankenstein's monster destroys--blame Frankenstein....
Very clear message in survey by Equens, IBM and Frauenhofer
We use the web to search out tons of information, to shop online and to connect with friends and family. And in the process criminals are trying to whack us over the head and steal from us. And they
A Lynn Massachusetts couple was accused of selling the identities of at least 16 Transportation Security Administration workers at Logan International Airport. Lynn was then and is now known as “Lyn
Interesting comment in FX week (sorry password required) about the problems with some banks FX feeds… “Banks must improve their foreign exchange pricing and trading infrastructure or risk losing orde...
The 2008 $48 billion VISA and Mastercard interchange fees that Senator Durbin mentions all throughout his bill is as a result of $2.864 trillion of VISA and MC debit and credit card charges. What this...
Trialpay surprised me this week with a couple of interesting surveys: one on the effect of Motherday on the revenue in social gaming and one on ad-funded payments. Let us start with the ad funded pay...
Were consulting firms among those culpable for the financial crisis? Back in 2002, Business Week (July 8th issue) raised the question in the midst of the Enron scandal where McKinsey was a major advis...
This week, and for many weeks, George Osborne will be taking steps to rein in unnecessary expenditure, halt future white elephant projects and seek ways to reduce the Brown/Blair legacy of £157 bn pou...
On the 6th May I blogged https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=4044 to say that I thought Greece could signal a bail out of the Euro and the more I read the more I think this will happe...
This week we have some of the world's biggest banks recording staggering, record profits - despite this there are serious challenges heading the banks way in the short-term; consumer trust is just t
Firstly, thanks to Olof Neiglick and the Burgundy team for hosting an enlightening seminar on the state of liquidity fragmentation in the Nordics earlier this week. The sessions included presentatio...