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David Divitt

Time to open up about fraud

Robert Wardle, former director of the Serious Fraud Office, has been in the press recently calling for businesses to cooperate and report fraud; I believe this is most definitely the way the industry

30 Apr 2009
Paul Penrose

Twitter and other banking fads

LloydsTSB's James Gardner has caused a bit of a stir with some provocative comments on his BankerVision blog about the value of Twitter to banks. The Twitterati don't take kindly to criticism (constr...

30 Apr 2009
Finance 2.0
Keith Appleyard

Influenza pandemic - 53 percent of organisations have no BCP

It's only been 4 weeks since I wrote that 2 out of 3 UK Companies did not have a proven Business Continuity Plan https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2737 but no apologies for resurrect...

30 Apr 2009
Whatever...
Uri Rivner

Conspiracy Theory

Don't you just love conspiracy theories? Here's a new one for you. April 21, 2009: F35 Fighter Jet Program Breached The Wall Street Journal reports a data breach in the F35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet pr...

30 Apr 2009
Online Banking
Robert Siciliano

Identity Thieves Love P2P

Last week Palo Alto Networks released the third edition of its Application Usage and Risk Report that found an average of Six P2P variants in 92% of the sample – with some organizations unknowingl

30 Apr 2009
Keith Appleyard

RyanAir - go find a computer

RyanAir has announced that from 1st October, there will be no Ryanair check-in desk at any of its airports, and everyone must check-in online and print off their boarding pass. On the one hand RyanAir...

29 Apr 2009
Whatever...
A Finextra Member

Faster Payments - a year on

Could it help the UK's corporates weather the current economic storm? When the Faster Payments Service (FPS) was launched in May last year, it was a widely anticipated scheme allowing consumers to mak...

29 Apr 2009
Robert Siciliano

Phishers are using better bait

It wasn’t long ago that most phishing emails were from a supposed Nigerian General Matumbi Mabumboo Watumboo. And you and I were flattered that we were the chosen ones to help the general transfer 3

28 Apr 2009
Bo Harald

e-id service making great progress

So sensemaking to let citizens log in to public sector with e-bank log-on tools. Check statistics here: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/04/e-id-making-great-progress.html This is so saving both ta...

28 Apr 2009
Innovation in Financial Services
Siddharth Udani

Banks choose technology or solutions?

It’s rather a very interesting debate whether banks choose the 'right' solution or a solution thats 'fits' their technology landscape. Though most of the Requirements are driven out of business change...

28 Apr 2009
Banking Architecture
A Finextra Member

Facebook's Micropayment Non-Strategy

Rumors continue to swirl concerning the deployment of a Facebook payments system. Recently the company unveiled that it was beta testing (via the VentureBeat and Facebook networks) functionality whic...

28 Apr 2009
Finance 2.0
A Finextra Member

Latest Pension Bombshell Betrays Poor Thinking

The proposal to impose a punitive tax on the impact of pay rises on final salary pensions, which was hidden in the budget, is another breathtaking example of the inability of those in charge to proper...

28 Apr 2009
Trends in Financial Services

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