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Today newly released Javelin research shows that the 11% of US people who received one of those "throw-away" data breach notification letters really *are* at greater risk of ID fraud. Exper
There is an article in the newspaper quoting Peter Hanlon expressing the view that branch closures may have been a tactical error which reduced the quality of service and damaged the customer relation...
Last week saw the largest ever gathering of QIs, NQIs, Auditors, US Withholding Agents and solutions vendors since 2001 when the US withholding tax regulations - 1441 NRA came into force. 100 attende...
The American Securitization Forum’s (ASF) work to enable the tracking of individual US mortgages is just one example of the finance world’s renewed faith in fact. This in turn is paving the way fo
Now I don't normally raise my voice on political issues but when they interfere with markets it is difficult to keep one's peace. Perhaps there will be a strong backlash but I feel that no matter what...
What is Integrated Data Management?... At a seminar a week or so back, I was asked the somewhat academic question was "What is Integrated Data Management?". Certainly everyone seemed convinc...
At a recent lecture series for Company Directors we were informed that regulation is on the rise and Company Directors in many countries did not even have the same rights as most international human r...
It has certainly been a busy week when it comes to female related news. So many things have caught my eye that I have wanted to blog about, I don’t know where to start. So I’ll start at the beginning!...
I gave up talking about identity theft. That horse has bolted and the barn door has been wide open too long. As I predicted some time ago, ID theft , and personal data theft enabling ID fraud is so ra...
Does this have any relevance to western 'micro-credit' or consumer credit cards? I notice the default rate heading over 10% for credit cards. This is a quote from a World Bank site discussing microfin...
With National Identity Fraud Prevention Week drawing to a close, once more the spotlight is put on how consumers can be protected from ID theft. While individuals should remain extremely vigilant agai...
I thoroughly endorse the European Payments Council’s call for the EU authorities to get behind SEPA. However, as duly noted by Gerard Hartsink, public authorities – which focus predominantly on domes...