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The news channels have all been carrying the enquiry into the banking crisis and of course been heavy laden with the grovelling apologies of the boardroom architects of the disaster. These apologies c...
Had to check the date - nope - not April 1st. It seems the good folk from Redmond are going to open Microsoft-branded stores to create a "deeper engagement" with consumers and they've recrui...
Are Credit Default Swaps the enemy? There are moves afoot to restrict the purchasing of CDSs to those organisations which own debt issued by the underlying issuing corporation. This is an interesti
Bleeding heart that I am it definitely warms my soul to see the number of banks and financial institutions that are turning green. Some, like Citigroup and now Deutsche Bank are leading the charge. ...
Just how much impetus does the UK's recent commitment to the PSD give to Faster Payments? If you read between the lines of the PSD there are some definite get out clauses. T+1 funds transfer is ce...
Looks like New York's tenacious attorney general Andrew Cuomo has blown a gaping hole in the latest line of defence used by desperate bank chiefs to shore up bonus pools: ie that the bonus culture als...
The latest twists in the Paul Moore story (fascinating memo in full on FT site) are extraordinary - and reinforces that risk management is central to one of the Great Credit Crunch Conundrums. What w...
Manama, Bahrain hosted again the financial technologies conference and exhibiton MEFTEC, which finished yesterday. Most of the big vendors in core banking, front-office and risk management were there....
I must admit I'm not a big Apple fan. Not the city they named twice but the rival to Microsoft. For a long time Apple has been perceived and marketed to be the hip alternative to Microsoft, Steve Job'...
We were contacted recently by Alain Job, who filed a lawsuit last year against Halifax over an alleged fraud instance on his EMV chip card, for which the bank is holding him responsible. Our news stor...
The UK Government is putting before Parliament regulations that will lead to legislation due to be enforced on the 2nd March 2009. This should breathe life into the PSD after a particularly difficult ...
Robert Siciliano 2/12/2 Millennials, the next generation of technology savvy workers are coming to a cubicle near you. They are a generation of technogeeks that dont know they are techno or geeks. I