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I watched the google wave developers demo on friday since i was curious about its potential. It has already created waves on the internet and is currently being talked about as the next big thing comi...
HSBC's UK customers had trouble using ATMs and accessing their accounts online over the weekend. Details are sketchy: we don't know how long the problem lasted, what caused it or how many people were ...
Interested in the Finextra community thoughts on Pandemic planning frameworks and dealing with the H1N1 flu (Swine flu) in other countries. In Australia, the regulator has released guideline on planni...
Barack Obama announced last week that there will be a new Cybercrime Czar in the US reporting directly to the president. We wonder what, if any good that will do. Can he/she be more than a figurehead...
The situation in France is pretty unique in these times of crisis. Here is how credit is structured and how French people see it and use it. CREDIT IN FRANCE What is the credit situation in France an...
The news around the DTCC, SWIFT and XBRL coming together to work as one towards standardising investor/issuer communications is a welcome sight. However the questions still remains – Will this partne...
There are many steps that can be taken to improve gender equality but it’s debatable whether this is one of them. The European Parliament has created a ‘gender neutral language’ pamphlet, designed to ...
Fourteen data breaches will, over the next year, each expose one million or more records to potential use by criminals. And, at least one breach of over 10 million records will affect nearly five perc...
We’ve all heard, and will no doubt continue to hear, lots of explanations from Members of Parliament accused of abusing the Expenses Regime, often blaming the ‘system’. Actually the Green Book 2009 ...
History indicates that we are at the forefront of an era in which criminal hackers develop tools and techniques to steal your money using your own cell phone. Fifteen years ago, cell phones were so
I wrote a letter to Santa last December and he seems to have taken it seriously at least with the most demanding present: "The second wish is a standard - more precisely a common and global stan...
Surveys in this phase of turmoil (recovery?) indicate that the customer priorities for choosing Banks are "Financial stability”, "Trust" and "customer focus" of Banks- Interp...