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Who would want to be a bank boss? Andrew Clare from the Cass Business School, clearly thinks it worth a punt. From the letters page of the FT: Sir I know that this is not normally the forum to adverti...
MiFID was implemented over 6 months ago and it's worth looking at its first impacts and questioning if the investors are actually better off than a year ago? The obvious change that is probably the se...
I note with continuing interest the news that the central banks are continuing to pump money into the markets to "ease liquidity" with a stunning lack of effect. It occurs to me that they se...
What's going on here then? Police Minister Urges Consumers To Look Out For Credit Card Fraud “There are potentially thousands of customers across all the major banks whose details have potentially end...
Given the regulatory and reputational risk associated with the loss of personal customer data it beggars belief that a top tier bank can still think it's OK to despatch an unecrypted computer disc con...
Following on from previous discussions of Vista on this site, interesting to see The Register reporting that Mr Gates said at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank on Friday that Windows 7...
Botnets Enlarging, Again There must still be a few idiots opening those unsolicited emails. Apart from the facts that my wife would leave me if I took up all those 'enlarging' offers and I'm too hones...
It seems everyone is getting 'into' mobile transactions, mostly without thinking. Paymate India have introduced SMS based payments:; "Once you choose to pay via PayMate at any of the accredited...
An already large botnet appears to be growing at an alarming rate - having expanded by 100,000 machines in the last month. Kraken - the malware that infects the victims' PCs - is similar to the Storm...
Two bank workers who stole 45 million yuan (HK$49.93 million) to buy lottery tickets have been executed in Hebei province, according to an AFP report quoting the Xinhau News Agency. The two vault man...
There is an article in the NY Times today called In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop . The article talks about the immense pressure bloggers (especially technology bloggers) face...
More about 'Mobilisation and The Art of War in Transaction Space'. Whether online or in a branch - people DON'T WANT TO 'BANK' - it's just a necessary evil. The main reason that banks don't feature in...