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UK price comparison Web site moneysupermarket.com is reporting on an experiment where representatives from the company, placed on busy streets in London and Manchester, offered passers-by a free £5 no...
On the day insurance giant Aviva announced it will axe 1800 UK jobs, its American arm invited agents to visit the company's private island in Internet-based virtual world Second Life. The firm says it...
In case you didn't notice the increase lately, we've had our heaviest month in over a year with MessageLabs reporting that the poor folks in Hong Kong are seeing 89 percent of all email as spam and i...
Following the launch of its new mobile trading application for the Blackberry, Web broker E*Trade says it will showcase the system in upcoming television, print and online advertisements using its &qu...
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a non-profit organisation involved in the fight against ID theft, has released the 2007 'ID Theft Aftermath' report. This report outlines the 'human' side of...
Belatedly proving that there is life after Swift, the banking co-operative's former head of securities James Donovan has landed a new role at US self-regulatory authority Finra. In his new job, Donova...
I was very interested to see two good stories on Finextra today. The first was that around half of Facebook users want to be able to bank through Facebook. The second was that 91% of British adults h...
Web 2.0 and banking seems like an interesting mix. This article (https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18544) actually mentions several loosely coupled items related to this: Providing online ba...
There are some lovely little new systems which have well and truly taken that into account. In fact it has to be the foundation of any architecture. Robust, proven '5 nines' technology and equipment a...
The Times produced an interesting piece on the glass ceiling recently – Camilla Cavendish wrote that the concept is actually in women’s heads and that they actually fear promotion as males and females...
Despite the impact of the credit crunch and the uncertain economic outlook, there is still demand for IT professionals in the financial services sector, according to specialist online recruitment firm...
At the moment if I'm on Facebook and want to check my bank balance I have to click on one of my bookmarks and log in to Smile. That doesn't strike me as too much of a hardship. There is no way I'd tru...