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Elton Cane

Do we need a recession to boost banking industry efficiency?

At a roundtable discussion this morning before the kick-off of the EBAday payments conference and exhibition, we had an interesting discussion on the topic of payments convergence - from ACH-card netw...

25 Jun 2008
EBAday
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Tech Giants to Save Us

I was wondering if I can have as many ID cards as I want - who is paying for them? Do I need a reader? Blah Blah Blah... Internet Mark2- the only 'marks' it gets are the fools dumb enough to buy in t...

24 Jun 2008
Information Security
Elton Cane

EBAday gets its first high-profile visitor

We arrived late yesterday in Helsinki in advance of tomorrow's start of the annual EBAday conference and exhibition to find an impressive sight - the 115 metre long Pelorus, the world's 12th largest ...

24 Jun 2008
EBAday
Elizabeth Lumley

It's a man's world...?

This is a funny story about about how women with long nails can't use an iPhone. Which is a bit strange, as an owner of an iPod Touch, I think they are a rather female friendly. But it got me thinki...

24 Jun 2008
Whatever...
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A Blink Through My Futurist Goggles

I've always thought that Moore's Law was really just an early illusion like the flat earth theory was for early explorers and that computers would soon make the jump to something significantly beyond ...

23 Jun 2008
Whatever...
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Firms dish out personal data for quick profits

A survey by internet security outfit Strongmail caught my attention this morning over breakfast. Around 60% of the surveyed marketing and data protection executives at 900 firms said they'd had a da...

23 Jun 2008
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What not to tell your boss

Managing your boss in the right way can be the key to promotion or the key to your downfall. This includes what details you should give them and what information you are best keeping to yourself. To m...

23 Jun 2008
Women in Technology
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TFL Oyster card hacked

Researchers in the Netherland have cracked and cloned an Oyster travel card, used across London for tube, bus and some overland rail travel. They gave themselves credit and enjoyed free rides on the ...

23 Jun 2008
Sriram Natarajan

Carbons are forever

I am intrigued by the number of conferences and events on 'greening of financial services'. Unless I got it wrong, I am not sure if financial services is on the top 10 list of industries contributing ...

22 Jun 2008
Elton Cane

How desparate is Barclays for cash?

As Barclays reports plans for new share issuance, and talk circulates about possible investment from a sovereign wealth fund or Japan's Sumitomo to help shore up the bank after it reported fresh write...

20 Jun 2008
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Tips for MBNA

I can't believe it. Oooops! I sound like Victor Meldrew. I have just come off the phone to MBNA, having spoken to an articulate and not unpleasent girl from Liverpool, and I can't believe it. I can...

20 Jun 2008
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Out comes the stick for the credit crunchers

Prosecutors in the US are hauling in the first of hundreds of participants in the US mortgage and credit fiasco. It remains to be seen who will pay the price but the government has plenty of people in...

20 Jun 2008
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