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After Osama bin Ladens Death a flurry of internet scams hit the internet. Most notably scam emails with links to pictures, videos and phony Facebook messages with links to videos that don’t exist. Whe...
Financial services worldwide are under enormous pressure from Governments and Regulators to change and regain the confidence of their customers. Unfortunately bad PR is not doing the Banks much favour...
Make room in the rulebook for the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Finextra reported Thursday that support for a “system to help regulators and industry participants monitor systemic risk” is growing
‘Dividend Achievers’ is the latest term used to describe the companies that have increased their dividend payout each year for the last ten or more consecutive years. You may have seen them referred t...
An informal foundation meeting was held in Brussels on Thursday (5th May, 2011) of the proposed European E-Invoicing Service Providers Association. In many ways this initiative is long overdue and is...
On 14th of March 2011, The Independent newspaper from the UK published an article suggesting that the iPhone 5 would not include Near-Field Communication (NFC) capability. A few days later on the 1
There is no shortage of bad guys, identity thieves, and hackers trying to separate you from your money. They range from previously discussed pickpockets, Trojan viruses, and ATM skimmers to dumpster ...
The recent data breach at Sony has triggered another round of debate on third party data security. While it is all fine looking at the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), classic ...
Here is a tongue-in-cheek list of the most unwanted identity thieves, describing the various techniques thieves use to steal your information. It’s clever and, unfortunately, very real. Pauly the Pic...
I wonder what the Japanese is for “when you are in a hole it’s usually a good time to stop digging?" I read the new Sony press release with some bemusement; the one with regard to the loss
With the cessation of cheque being reviewed after numerous petitions, it seems there might be a stalemate between the group who believe in the ongoing modernising of payment collection processes and
The CISI survey mentioned on this site yesterday "FSA paper trail hampering compliance activities" raises many issues. But first, congratulations to Julian Sampson for undertaking this servi...