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As opening new lines of credit becomes more difficult, identity thieves are gravitating toward check fraud. Check fraud is a billion dollar problem. As predicted by the Identity Theft Resource Center,...
There's still not enough clear thinking about the nature of personal information being traded and lost online. Not all information is the same! In examining the terrible trend in personal informatio...
There has been a lot of discussion recently about maternity and paternity leave. First the Equality and Human Rights Commission said that Britain has the most unequal parental leave arrangements in Eu...
A patient at a Washington state medical clinic was asked for his Social Security number numerous times. Many of us have endured this familiar process. Considering the recent buzz about identity thef
According to the Financial Times story cited in this article, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup will have to wait up to two years to gain the full benefit of their $14bn-a-year brokerage joint venture due ...
Reaction to the article of TowerGroup https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=20137 Regarding the usage of "traditional" account information (name, address, birthdate...) as authentication...
Card Fraud can be eradicated but only if card issuers will take the reponsibility of implementing the correct solutions. The solutions that provide the best protection and which can eliminate card fra...
Nothing could illustrate the depression in the M&A markets more than the news that Christiano Ronaldo's £80 million transfer to Real Madrid ranked as the seventh largest deal in the whole of Europ...
Arguably this is not a blog, as it has been too long since my last missive - perhaps on this occasion it should be categorized as a periodic rant in disbelief at human ability not to learn from others...
Just a quickie, but I read in the paper the other day that Institutional Investors were worried that the incentives for Stephen Hester to sort out RBS weren't generous enough, which is an interesting ...
The marketing people at my bank have really been busy recently, and certainly doing their bit to keep the Royal Mail going. Over the course of one week, we received five – yes 5 – mailshots offering u...
There's an interesting news snippet from Jakarta today about a fire at IFI Bank, which was liquidated by Indonesia's central bank in April. It's slightly suspicious, but not in the sense of the blaze...