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Perhaps because it's just not natural! Federated Identity is certainly one of the hotter topics in e-business and security circles currently. It promises to improve cost, efficiency and convenience ...
Mandated reductions in interchange fees in Australia were supposed to cause retail prices to drop, directly benefiting consumers. Instead, interchange regulation has redistributed wealth in favour of ...
Looks like it going to be hard to make money if even Berkshire are finding it difficult in these tough times. It may be getting tougher for the rest of us. BH profit from underwriting insurance polic...
The 11th ASEAN+3 finance ministers' meeting has adjusted the CMI, or Qing Mai Initiative at a regional financing arrangement and set a fund target of $80 Billion. The CMI was agreed to by the 1...
Fingerprint analysis appears to have hit a glitch and China has another virus. Dusting for prints is one of the key forensic tools used by Police investigators everywhere. Considered by juries as b...
Is there irony in this? Maybe it's only a nibble at the moment. There seem to be a lot of pre-paid products coming onto the market being promoted as a safer alternative to credit cards on the internet...
Australian financial institutions are considering a radical initiative that could see BPAY codes trump bank account numbers. Codenamed MAMBO (Me and My Bank Online), the top-secret BPAY proposal could...
On the eve of a failed attempt to privatise power in Australia's largest state, news broke that 800 Australian companies may face charges over secret political donations. In a vote of 702-107 the plan...
The Australian government is threatening to enact new banking legislation to lower mortgage exit fees and make it easier for mortgagees to switch lenders. Australia has the worlds highest exit fees w...
People often ask if we have an RSS feed for our blog posts. Well - yes we do. In fact if you're using Firefox or Safari you'll probably have spotted it already. We have a selection in fact on our RS...
The descent into administration of UK business intelligence vendor Granville Associates reawakens the spectre of insolvency for smaller software companies in the fintech space. For the best part of t...
2008 is turning out to be a another big year for the Shanghai stock market, not because of the bubble-like conditions or growth like what we saw in 2007, but for the changes in market regulations. Sin...