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Relationships between capital markets industry participants and the market data vendors servicing them have never been as strained as they are now. To understand why, it’s important to understand how ...
Twitter seems to be coming into its own as a medium for reporting fast-moving events. Up-to-the-minute citizen reportage on the G20 protest rally can be found here. This just in: Protestors urinating...
There has been much of talk recently with regards to threats to computer security. The latest high profile threat is the Conficker.B worm, which targets machines using the MS Windows OS. According to...
I have reason to believe there are one or two US retailers with financial services squarely in their sights, and are looking to pull a Tesco in the US. Some retailers might just score a bulls-eye with...
Credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters. Silly criminal hackers need to tighten up their data security
The UK Local Government Association has compiled a banned list of the 200 worst uses of jargon, with "coterminosity" & "predictors of beaconicity" prominent in most press repor...
Whether it is certain bonuses in financial sector, or league tables and performance stars in the public sector, there have been numerous recent illustrations of the harm that poorly set business targe...
The fact that the government could not wind down Northern Rock in fear of another run on the bank illustrates how banks need to do more to foster consumer confidence in that payouts, if a bank were t
How much are 5 gigabyte of stolen data worth? Well, it depends how lazy a fraudster you are. Until a few years ago, Trojans were hardly ever sold in the underground. If they did, their high price – th...
60 minutes reports on everything we have discussed in these posts. Main stream media has recognized the Internet has a cancerous virus and is infected. Criminal hackers are creating viruses infectin
Over the past few months, I have seen more and more banks, financial institutions and corporations announcing some type of foray into social networking. The desire to engage, connect and share with r...
The corporate culture of growth at any cost during the past decade has exposed fundamental flaws in the way banks conducted their business and in particular how they managed it. As such, the financial...