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The Payments Council announced late last year cheques are to disappear in the UK by 2018. To most people this might feel like a case of, so what? Particularly for corporates, where the use of cheques ...
I know this is an unorthodox request but I envision it can turn into a cool post in the comments, then a great article. I'm doing a report on international issues of "new account fraud" as
Naiveté: A lack of sophistication or worldliness. That sums up a lot of people I know. “There’s a sucker born every minute” is a phrase often credited to P.T. Barnum (1810 – 1891), an American showman...
There is a reason why computer users are called “users.” Like crack addicts who are drug users, more is never enough. And when under the influence, people do stupid things. I find myself scanning the ...
Is betting on the Hollywood really any riskier than betting on credit default swaps? Think about it. Imagine you are traveling back in time and the director of Braindead and The Frighteners came t...
When Dickens' great work, "A Christmas Carol", was first published in December 1843, the only way any business could keep its finances under control was through painstaking, laborious, manua...
Quite a lot has been written over recent weeks about the London Stock Exchange’s market share and last week helped to clarify some of the issues. Prior to this period the LSE had enjoyed a temporary...
Medical identity theft occurs when the perpetrator uses your name and in some cases other aspects of your identity, such as insurance information, to obtain medical treatment or medication or to make ...
"PayPal iPhone app downloaded one million times in three weeks"!!! (see article here) I love technology and I'm convinced that over time new Value Transfer Systems will become more and mor
As iPad was released, a lots of developers already started up their engines to create thousands or even millions of different apps, so the financial ones will be there too. The good thing about the i...
Albert Gonzalez and his gang of criminal hackers were responsible for data breaches in retailers and payment processors, with some estimates saying they breached over 230 million records combined. Go...
Interesting event occurred last week that highlighted a flaw in the drive towards paperless statements and invoices. So many organisations are now trying to encourage people to stop receiving paper an...