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Robert Siciliano

Recycled, Lost, Stolen Phones, Equal Identity Theft

If I had a choice to give up my car or my mobile phone, I'd keep the phone. My mobile is a weapon of success. When the media or a client needs me (or someone like me) I'm right there trumping the comp...

23 Feb 2009
A Finextra Member

Lending Controls, Yes - But The Cost Will Be High

Most old-fashioned lending bankers would probably see the belated recognition that we need to reintroduce lending controls as a step in the right direction. For some time now, some of us have argued ...

23 Feb 2009
Online Banking
Steve Ellis

Maybe you could be at next year's Oscars

Well perhaps, that is if you take up Michael Moore's invitation to help him out with his next film project. < I am looking for a few brave people who work on Wall Street or in the financial indust...

23 Feb 2009
Kumar Jm

Darwin's Survival Theory Rehashed

I found an interesting article captioned "Bill Adds Hurdles for Foreign Hires" on Wall Street Journal online edition. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123517509078737427.html Serious lobbying...

21 Feb 2009
A Finextra Member

Financial Crisis Bargains

This market is playing with our future like a dog with a ball. Consider that one year ago RBS paid $100bn for ABN Amro. That seemingly impossible amount would now buy: more

21 Feb 2009
Transaction Banking
Paul Penrose

Shoot the messenger

A poll of CEOs at Fortune 1000 companies conducted by Frost & Sullivan has concluded that the global economic slump is all the fault of 'the media', which is twisting facts and exaggerating econom...

20 Feb 2009
Whatever...
Robert Siciliano

Phishing Attacks Rise Dramatically in 2008

Robert Siciliano Stupid people get hooked by phishers. You have to be a complete idiot to get sucked into a scam email that has typos making requests that are geared toward naïve simple minded pea

20 Feb 2009
Paul Penrose

The PayPal Rally

PayPal in Germany recently conducted an interesting experiment to see how far you can get in the offline world using just an iPhone and a PayPal account. The firm equipped two competing teams on a tri...

20 Feb 2009
EBAday
A Finextra Member

Why does sorry seem to be the hardest word?

According to a recent article apologies matter to China. The focus of the article was on the Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps who addressed fans in China following photographs published of him smoking ...

19 Feb 2009
Whatever...
Robert Siciliano

Nuclear Weapons, CyberSecurity and an Unlocked Door

Robert Siciliano What happens when you have an unlocked door at the home of and employee at the top U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory? How about 3 stolen computers with yet to be disclosed data, that

19 Feb 2009
A Finextra Member

Mobile convenience and one-step loyalty enrolment

Ok here’s what I’ve been working on. The patent was filed this week, so I can finally talk about it. Taggo is deigned to add mobile tap and go convenience and one-step enrolment to existing loyalty a...

19 Feb 2009
Robert Siciliano

Bank Robberies Spike, Blame The Economy?

Robert Siciliano Often I’m called to provide perspective on breaking news as it relates to personal security, violence and fraud. Tonight it was bank robbery. In Boston a white male suspect in his 20

18 Feb 2009

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