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Running a bank is like driving a Car !!

Let me explain.. What technology can bring to table? Yesterday I was seeing some of the dashboards for banks. Looking at them, I found that it can’t be a dashboard - all static one. Like a standing ca...

18 Mar 2009
Paul Penrose

Does Jon Stewart use inside information?

Having mopped the floor with Jim Cramer and CNBC, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart has turned his attention to the practice of short-selling in this typically barbed report from regular correspondent Sa...

18 Mar 2009
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Industry is ready to invest GBP 900 million on Fast Payout?

According to E&Y Fast Payout study, estimated cost to industry of proposed requirements are as follows Requirement Estimated Cost (GBP in Millions) % of total cost Data C...

18 Mar 2009
FSCS Fast Payout
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Is Spain plus Brazil more effective than India?

Spain’s star is on the rise in the outsourcing world. Too long in the shadow of India and Eastern Europe as near and offshore solution, Spain is becoming the thinking company’s destination of choice. ...

17 Mar 2009
Trends in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano

Cybersquatting Rises 18 Percent As Fraud Rises

The Hammer of the Gods came down on me. I pissed off Led Zeppelins lawyers. It wasn't intentional, I was just a fan. There wasn't even a term for it when I did it. What was it? Cybersquatting. Cybersq...

17 Mar 2009
A Finextra Member

Martians in my pants

Actually thats a complete fabrication but if I entitled this blog CP 8/22 I didn't think I'd get much of a response . The recently released CP08/22 'Strengthening Liquidity Standards' is the FSA's res...

17 Mar 2009
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Getting the business wisdom

Getting the business wisdom Business wisdom is next level of business intelligence. Companies are stuck in bloody Red Ocean and fighting on to grab market share; nobody is trying to create a blue oce

17 Mar 2009
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Card Cheques and Auto Limit Increases

Interesting development on the credit card front. Once more, the Government is trying to make out that the financial services industry is at fault for pushing credit on people. Whilst I subscribe to ...

17 Mar 2009
Trends in Financial Services
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FSCS Fast Payout Vs Market Confidence

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is the UK’s statutory compensation fund for financial defaults. This means that it is responsible for the payment of compensation to eligible customer...

16 Mar 2009
FSCS Fast Payout
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Tightening the belt? Apply here.

A slew of job cuts across financial services have been announced over the course of the last few weeks and there is no doubt that these are the tip of the iceberg. Some reports have even gone as far ...

16 Mar 2009
Robert Siciliano

Counterfeit Documents, Fake IDs and Passports

Information and phisical security in every country is continually at risk as long as identifing documents can be reproduced with ease. While progress is continually made to identify and authenticate

16 Mar 2009
Paul Penrose

Bernie Madoff is the Cookie Monster

Want to know how Bernie Madoff swindled his billions, but only got a minute to spare? Ernie from Sesame Street explains all here. Not sure that I fully approve of Ernie's rather Tarantinoesque retrib...

16 Mar 2009
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