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Here at Finextra we often cover clever, tech-driven scams dreamt up by criminals looking to part people from their money. Sometimes though, the simpler a plan the better, as a gang of crooks in Uganda...
News Flash: "US Forest Service Study Determines - Bears ARE Dangerous" "U of M Survey Confirms - Employees Would Be Happy With Shorter Work Hours at the Same Pay" "Department ...
Always one to beat a dead cause célèbre, I thought I call around a few marketers at high street banks to see what they thought of the recent analyst report from Morgan Stanley. The one that listed the...
I wrote this blog post back in 2007 and keep coming back to the theme rather often. As said there - business should morally embrace the need for regulation - it cannot be avoided - be it the environm...
Mint's online lifestyle mag does its bit to remind us all how deep in the mire we are with the snazzy 'One Trillion Dollars Visualised' animation. In layman's terms, that one trillion dollars would b...
As I've been circulating through a number of conversations with banks, financial services technology providers and colleagues in every conceivable sub-branch of the banking family tree these past few ...
Dear Mr Wolf, In your piece "Adapting to Britain’s mediocre prospects -Published: July 16 2009 20:16" you say "...It must start by making finance safer. The simple and painful truth i...
Alright, I have to admit that sometimes a news story comes across the wire that is so patently absurd or bizarre that I cannot resist the urge to consider it and then comment. ATM machines that are t
I watched an interesting debate on Newsnight last night, on the subject of youth unemployment. It made me wonder whether the UK Government was becoming ageist, especially when it comes to employment
Twitter has suffered an embarassing security lapse after a hacker stole hundreds of confidential documents and released them in the blogosphere. Explaining the break-in, Twitter CEO Biz Stone writes...
You can usualy be sure that if you see a feature update on the lives of teenagers (what gadgets they are using what slang falls from their mounths...that kind of thing) you can be sure that the inform...
I generally find the subject of banking, risk management, payments and so on to be pretty serious stuff. After all I have spent my entire career dealing with the various aspects of all of this. I mu...