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After reading death by blogging I'm looking for something more permanent. Death by 'blurbing' at least leaves a trace in the physical world, 'blurbing' is publishing your own book. For the princely s...
With the Bank of England ploughing 50 billion pounds worth of funds into the banking system the credit crisis has taken another significant turn and the question is now, is it enough? Already City exp...
It was only recently that we heard David Cameron pledging to give a third of ministerial positions to women if the Conservatives win the next election. Now following suit, the first female governor ge...
Here are some of the influential technologies and inventions which have each in their own way revolutionised the retail banking business in the last 1000 years. Money, guarantees and loans have been a...
What is it that's lead to a number of announcements on payment networks in the past week? We had some of the EU countries pledging to implement an card payment network to take on Visa, MasterCard and...
What do they have in common? Recently border officials have began a dubious practice of collecting mobile phones, PDA's, memory sticks, and even whole laptops and copying the information for 'security...
I've not had my daily dose of Dilbert today. It seems the site has been redesigned and gone all "web 2.0". This alone can be the kiss of death - but in this case it's even worse as it doesn...
The newly-merged Thomson Reuters combo made an inauspicious start to its first day's trading yesterday. Brokers, spooked by the rising tide of red ink and job losses in the investment banking sector, ...
It’s always discouraging to read the latest statistics that show significant gender pay gaps. The Office for National Statistics now say that although male / female pay divide has almost disappeared a...
A little reality check on the security front. Personal Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in public places in the U.K.: 5 million Average number of times a Briton is filmed on CCTV in one day...
I’m always amused by security companies generating PR with a title such as “Phishers take aim at XYZ!”. So I was amused as well to see the article titled Phishers take aim at MasterCard SecureCode T...
‘World’s First Large-Scale Use of Information Cards in the Public Sector’[1] Eduserv to Streamline Access and Identity Management Future Plans to Provide All Councils and Residents with Information ...