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Ebay-Paypal immune to financial and monopoly laws?

Ebay restrains Paypal competitors by banning other payments in it's march towards monopoly. Financial institutions should be concerned that Ebay/Paypal is entering the financial services sector withou...

10 Apr 2008
Whatever...
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Gartner - Windows collapsing

Interesting read by Larry Dignan on the view of a couple of Gartner analysts. Perhaps I should become an analyst - I could have said much of this - in fact I suspect anyone could have told you Windo...

10 Apr 2008
Alex Noble

Capital One cuts 750 UK jobs at Nottingham Call Centre

Not the best news from the Daily Telegraph and Finextra, but perhaps one of the first signs of the credit crunch hitting the call centres of UK financial services firms. I'd wondered in January th...

09 Apr 2008
Elton Cane

Investment bank bonus structures are an operational risk

This is one of the interesting topics that came up for debate at a risk event I attended yesterday organised by the CASS Business School in London and the Capco Institute. The recent sub-prime and liq...

09 Apr 2008
Trends in Financial Services
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Traders take up 'performance enhancing' dietary supplement

Vizuo XL Sports Vision Enhancement is a dietary supplement that claims to improve the agility, coordination and reaction speed of athletes which is now being used by Wall Street traders to help execut...

09 Apr 2008
Sriram Natarajan

Thought for Food!

Going by the events of the 10 days, it looks like Lady Subprime who has been grabbing all our attention has serious competition. The 'World Food Crisis' threatens to take us back to the basics and mak...

09 Apr 2008
A Finextra Member

Will the New Internet and Mobilisation Prevent Depression?

Microsoft and some of the other big internet players have realised that the internet will stall without identity and trust. Web 2.0 or whatever they call it this week, is just like the real world. Lin...

09 Apr 2008
Information Security
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Soros and market visibility - by the noneconomist

George Soros has 'come out of retirement' albeit to launch his new book Credit Crisis 2008 and what it means. I haven't had time to read it yet so I'll go by his spoken words. Recent statements by Mr...

09 Apr 2008
Whatever...
A Finextra Member

Microsoft admits defeat in the security stakes asks for help

"At this year’s RSA, Microsoft will not announce a new company strategy. Rather, we will use this opportunity to ask all who care about online safety to join in a robust and meaningful discussion...

08 Apr 2008
Information Security
Zennon Kapron

The Genie and the Giant

The Citic / Bear Stearns fall-out is one example of many where proposed or actual tie-ups in China have changed as of late. Another prominent one is Yahoo and their arrangement with Alibaba, the large...

08 Apr 2008
Asia Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Financial Innovation and Global Security

It is no secret that there is a highly symbiotic relationship between economic affairs and national security. One is hugely influential on the other. In today’s hyper-dependent global economy this is ...

08 Apr 2008
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Green is good

Organisations that are tempted to cut back on green PC initiatives as part of wider IT cost-cutting efforts may find themselves out of pocket in the near- to mid-term, according to Gartner. For most ...

08 Apr 2008
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