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In the UK, the history of stock borrowing and lending has veered from being a well regulated, secure winner for all parts of the finance industry into an open season that is almost a free-for-all for ...
The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyri...
***To listen to an audio version of this post please click here. Mobile banking is no longer coming. It is already happening. Every major UK bank now offers a reasonable service for multiple plat...
The Euro Crisis and Supply Chain Finance: New Players Enter the Game Synopsis In recent years, a new breed of non-bank players has emerged in the European Supply Chain Finance (SCF) marketplace, offer...
Personalization: Everyone knows it is a key factor in generating loyalty - but how do you get there? Retailers mostly get it right, especially in the online world. They are doing really well at trac...
Dear Bank IT Manager, I hope that you have had a good Christmas / New Year period: covered by a romantic snow if you are in the North or blessed by a brilliant sunlight if you are in the South. Person...
I'm starting to hear of some very significant digital and multi-channel budgets being put in place by many of the leading retail banking brands in 2012. It's about time! While I won't name names or bu...
It's terrific that merchants are increasingly pushing back on PCI-DSS. It really is high time we shifted the emphasis from ad hoc stop gap compromise measures, onto tackling the real problem: the rep...
There has been a huge media outcry that short selling is a major reason for the economic crisis. Worryingly people in the industry have bought this message and many firmly believe that short selling i...
A lot of people talk to me about two-factor authentication (2FA) as if it was a security panacea. But what about in the case of Man-in-the-Middle or Man-in-the-Browser attacks, or (as discussed in my ...
Questions European Tax Payers should ask: https://www.finextra.com/community/members/PreviewBlog.aspx?b_id=2815 This is a post from 2009. Even if the finance crisis has since hijacked almost all atten...
The English/Scottish affair goes back many a year to the extent that the wood is completely obscured by the trees. As a descendent of a Scottish Royal Marine I declare my hand as a lover of the land a...