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I am looking forward to the UK government disposing of its bank holdings at the right time and paying off the national debt. However the root of recession lies not in the poor credit practices that ha...
Think you're safe? Try this! (only applies to Windows PC users). It's a bit slow and plodding but it does the job. Yes - it's Get safe online week - an annual UK bash to make the public aware of the ...
Mobile manufactureres and gadget makers could learn a thing or two from Detroit. I doubt that 48% of new car buyers need help operating their new cars, yet that is the figure for gadgets. If the auto-...
The Morgan Stanley tidal power generation project is clearly a potentially very good investment. Citi's smart data centre also contributes to better energy efficiency. These investments should inspire...
Congratulations to Paul and everyone at Finextra. Finextra is my number one site for banking news and I have been relying on it for many years. Colin
I tend to simplify and generalise on a blog, I don't wish to take up to much of readers time. I'll attempt to simplify my view of the markets. It's a sea of money. Incentive. A medium for exchange. Re...
Australian resort owner Tony Fox has followed the time-honoured tradition of partying while Rome burns, with a month long all-nude and anything goes party at his White Cockatoo tropical resort in Que...
Every professional with the vision of mobilizing money has been focused on mobile financial services for years. It abvious that plastic cards and mobile handsets are going to converge by the deliver o...
I have a few ideas about identity management. The mobile money laundering article begins with a premise about Brittany a 'personal entertainer' (my description), who uses electronic payments to coll...
The other day I received a statement from a financial services company with whom I have a small amount of business. Nothing unusual in that, other than the accompanying leaflet that set out a new pro...
I welcome confirmation of our own conclusions that customers want to use their mobile similarly to ATM usage patterns - primarily for balances. The transaction part they'll have to do without for the ...
What is likely to happen at the November 15th G20 meeting and why? Although it was not Nicolas Sarkozy but a group of 11 Commonwealth countries who floated the idea in June 2008, the French President ...