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This week consumers are receiving messages from trusted companies such as 1-800-Flowers, Chase, Hilton HHonors and others, letting them know that their e-mail addresses have been exposed due to the re...
As final day for SEPA has been changed, again. I started to think what we could learn from Open Source Development. Every day streets and meeting rooms of Brussels get important people to discuss hard...
The Federal Trade Commission recently released the list of the most common consumer complaints in 2010. Identity theft topped the list for the eleventh year in a row. The FTC received 1,339,265 in 20...
When you compare the cost of various services, you begin to see how much your time is worth. For example, it would take most homeowners a significant chunk of nights and weekends to paint a house them...
We know it’s a problem, we’ve seen it this year – don’t comply, don’t look after your customers properly at your peril. If you’re not going to play the game by the rules, be sure to put something b
Seems like equity and other capital marketplaces are going through the ying and yang of fragmentation and consolidation. Just as we hear about another merger, we read about another new venue going li...
At the excellent Finextra Social Media Day yesterday, panellists representing ‘The Corporates' were discussing the consumer/client benefits of social media and this quickly turned into a marketing and...
The UK banking and financial service sector is currently undergoing a period of reinvention (whether it realises it or not). There are several reasons for this: Firstly, the rise of social media has ...
Ok, so the feedback from Finextra's #finxsm event this week is that we're finally coming to grips with the fact that Social Media isn't going to disappear into the night like some passing fad. Good n...
Will we still keep hearing this: “We do know what to do – but not how to be re-elected - if we do it” How can this be true? Assuming that the thing that should be done – things like cutting costs, bo...
LEIs don’t just impact the financial markets sector – they impact the whole of global commerce. A company’s LEI will become a key element of accounts receivable, accounts payable, invoicing and e-inv...
Actiance's Sarah Carter gave a fascinating presentation at the Finextra Social Media Day, which clearly resonated with the audience, when she got into the very thorny topic of regulatory compliance. S...