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Just read this really interesting and thought-provoking article by Gene Steinberg on technightowl.com about the likely implications for Adobe Flex/Flash of Apple not supporting it. Full article here:...
Good news for all you news junkies out there. Finextra has introduced a new 'Best of the Web' news feed to sit alongside our regular output of breaking stories from the world of fintech. Much like our...
When Fonzie jumped the shark on his HOG, that spelt the end of Happy Days. The FTC sending a warning to 100 companies and agencies that their employees are leaking client and sensitive data on the we...
The ministry of Employment and the Economy has published an extensive study on cost of administrative burden. Some quotes (my emphasis): "The aim of the study was to chart statutory information ...
About a month ago I was invited by an English university to talk to computer science students about the state of cybercrime and online banking fraud. The title of the lecture was “Crash Course: How to...
The US government has put its weight behind a new framework for certifying online identity management providers, so that they can be trusted to assign individuals digital identities that can be used t...
Finextra HQ has been a hive of activity around planning the upcoming EBADay - to be held on the 26th and 27th of May in Luxembourg. Registration is open and the agenda has been set. It should not be...
A few of us here at Fidessa Towers have been wondering about the spiky path fragmentation has taken over the past year or so. Whilst the overriding trend is upwards there have been a number of times w...
When we started looking for customers in the first payments startup I worked for, low hanging fruit were obvious. All you had to do to find them was look for a merchant's international shipping policy...
A webcam is certainly one way the bad guy can get intelligence about you. They can use it to spy on you. They can listen into everything you say all day. They know when you are home or not, whether or...
Transparent, honest and just pricing gives consumers a chance to act in their own interest. Lower costs for service providers will sooner rather than later lead to improved cost – benefit. To the exte...
At the early stage of e-invoicing it was referred to as “dematerialization”. The benefits were seen as coming from not sending paper mail – but electronic mail. Now it has become very clear that the r...