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I applaud BofA in their bold move into the bloggosphere. I also think that here should be an industry code of conduct for blogging with customers on financial sites, don't cringe - it'll be good for e...
Australia's central bank has stepped into the debate over eBay's proposals to make the use of PayPal mandatory for buyers and sellers on the online aution site. In a submission to the country's compet...
Despite many sophisticated measures in place to protect cardholder data during and after a credit or debit transaction, the most likely source of PIN compromise is the simplest. Referred to as “shoul...
Recieved this fun phishing attempt recently: GRANT/DONATION CASH AID AWARD. http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it DON"T GO THERE! Dear Sir/Madam, NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID The Fondazione...
The Boston Globe reports that Bank of America is embracing customer interaction via an online forum. Predictably, plenty of irate customers are taking advantage of the feature to air their frustrati...
I was sent an interesting email recently from the Carbon Neutral Company, who are one of our partners for our Finexpo - Green City event. They were letting me know that on 5 June, it's World Enviro...
e-portals has developed a new product called "Exposure Alert" for tracking exposure and risk at the desktop level using gadget technology. It is the IPR for the use of this product in the We...
Much of western Sydney (Australia) was without telephone and internet last weekend and the reasons have come to light. In an attempt to take out the EFTPOS network to carry out fraudulent manual tran...
There have been a few different conversations stemming from the publication of the EC’s report on “Fraud regarding non cash means of payments in the EU”, but none so far seem to address the fact that ...
End of last week, the Federal Reserve released a proposed set of regulations on credit cards and overdraft. See http://federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20080502a.htm These regulations, when i...
A broker writes: "Behind the headline-grabbing stories of rogue traders losing billions, the more mundane, day-to-day world of high finance is as wild and unregulated today as it ever has been. B...
Of all the problems you might anticipate with hosting your application with a third party host or ISP - having the servers nicked might not be very high up the list, however it seems some n'er do wel...