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Keith Appleyard

Breeding the Next-Generation of Computer Hackers

The other week I was participating in a Computer Weekly / British Telecom workshop regarding Collaboration Technology. I made the point that as well as using Technology to enable Collaboration we need...

03 Apr 2009
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Keith Appleyard

Timely warning of not relying too much on DNA evidence

German authorities have ended their search for a female serial killer after discovering that DNA thought to be from 40 crime scenes actually came from a woman who packed the cotton swabs used to gathe...

03 Apr 2009
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A Finextra Member

12 Zeroes - Or Was That 20?

What the 20 heads of state at the G20 continually fail to understand is the plight of individuals and how that impacts on how well we will recover from this mess. How could they, as they are all insu...

03 Apr 2009
Trends in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

No Surprises From G20 - Except Agreement

After the biggest financial crisis in history, which defied most people's imagination, humbling even China, the G20 have come together and agreed to a course. Congratulations. Perhaps the most signif...

03 Apr 2009
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A Finextra Member

G20 reach agreement - but is it enough?

According to the BBC - and who doesn't follow Peston these days ..... On behalf of the G20, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the following steps: Bankers' pay and bonuses will be subject to stri...

02 Apr 2009
Trends in Financial Services
Keith Saxton

IBM Viewpoint on Systemic Risk

IBM Viewpoint on Systemic Risk: Transparency Key to Global Financial Reform Shaping global financial reform has been a dominant theme in the lead up to the G20 summit. Calls for “strong oversight,”...

02 Apr 2009
Keith Appleyard

2 out of 3 UK Companies without a proven BCP

The Chartered Management Institute, in association with the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, has just released the Business Continuity Management Report 2009 (the 10th annual re...

02 Apr 2009
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A Finextra Member

Kevin Rudd Asks The Unemployed To Predict The Future

Well Kev, you're getting the unemployed to predict the future on penalty of fraud charges and imprisonment, so why not do the same to your ever so un-prescient economists? The latest thing to come to...

02 Apr 2009
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A Finextra Member

Sacking Auto Czars - Boo Hoo, And Bankers Too.

I see lots of commentary (on the crisis). I read some of it. Generally it makes poor reading. I see people complain that the head of an auto maker gets fired, and they ask why the heads of the banks d...

02 Apr 2009
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A Finextra Member

System Adequacy Identified as Major OTC Operational Issue

65 per cent of firms reference adequacy of existing system as major OTC operational issue As the dust settles on the central counterparty debate the spotlight returns to the internal issue of oper...

01 Apr 2009
Trends in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano

Conficker has a soft launch

With the world watching Conficker has reached out but has not delivered any new malware. Computer World reports “We have observed that Conficker is reaching out, but so far none of the servers they a...

01 Apr 2009
Paul Penrose

Building the bomb that blew up Manhattan

The man who wrote the software that became the industry-standard method for securitising mortgages tells all, in this mesmerising account of a 15-year career on Wall Street that runs from the go-go 8...

01 Apr 2009

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