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The size of your pay packet doesn't guarantee happiness and fulfilment at work, according to a survey of 1000 workers across 20 professions which found bankers and financial services workers to be the...
As you probably know, the annual Swift bash is taking place in September and as you might expect Finextra will be shipping out a crack team for on-the-spot coverage of key issues, events and the inev...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York yesterday published a paper that describes ten major long-range trends in the settlement of large-value payments worldwide. The trends are driven by technological ...
The Creditex acquisition looks like third-time lucky for ICE, which has been keen to follow the same horizontal growth strategy being successfully pursued by other exchange groups over the past few ye...
Turquoise chief executive Eli Lederman told delegates at the Mondo Visione Exchange Forum that the bank-backed equities trading facility will begin offering trading on 300 stocks across 14 markets on ...
A new study has found that the quality and type of biscuit presented in a meeting can make or break a deal. A survey of over 1000 UK business professionals conducted by Holiday Inn found that the cho...
I'm working in San Diego this week, but over the weekend I was sent an interesting story. The BBC Radio Money Box program has been investigating the use of automated outbound calling by UK banks to c...
(C)WAP is a waste of time for mobile banking and too slow for most uses and will just lead to pain and suffering by both consumers and banks, not the least because of security, but by all means try an...
These statements on the ABA website and a linked article on their site. New data on payments fraud shows that while the value of transactions continues to climb, the incidence of fraud remains low. ...
Full story available at http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/05/30/230883/password-sharing-leaves-nhs-audit-trail-in-tatters.htm Investigators have been unable to trace a doctor involved a me...
Here's something to keep you awake at night - the OECD reckon one in four computers in the US are infected with malware of various forms. It's all highly sophisticated and getting more and more devio...
It seems strange that banks would want to push their users to sign-up online, when the service they're offering will be used over the phone. It's not going to help out with the trust in the system (ht...