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The midterm report was approved yesterday. It should - in addition to provide the state of the art reading on the subject - make it very clear that the work is open, nonpartisan, inclusive, technolog...
I'm a huge fan of Indian food - be it generic brit-curry or the more authentic menu you'd find in places like Tooting or the marvellous Indian YMCA just off Warren Street. So I don't take much encoura...
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I have written on the topic of high street stores entering banking before but it's now looking certain that Tesco will be the first to go the whole hog. The Chief Executive Sir Terry Leahy appears to ...
This is probably never going to gain traction, but I wonder whether we should really be thanking the US for triggering the financial crisis... My reason for saying this is that, at least by doing so, ...
Will be published tomorrow by EU Commission
B2C eBilling has failed. In its many guises (Electronic Billing, EBPP, Paperless Billing), ebilling has been around for many years now, yet adoption rates continue to fall dismally short of expectati...
I'm sure it's okay really, and that it's just my lack of knowledge about the detail, but a conversation the other day meant I couldn't help wondering about the level of security we get with card reade...
Just in case your attention is elsewhere this Wednesday.... Would not want you to miss the 3rd Council of Europe Data Protection Day on Wed 28th January 2009 (what happened on the other two?) relatin...
Its normal practice for financial services firms to immediately cut costs and budgets when a financial crisis hits. In my time working in banking I can remember on many occasions when some form of cri...
The UK's Faster Payments service has taken a critical panning from the BBC. The Corporation's MoneyBox programme claims the system is in "disarray", as banks implement the technology in a d...
There have been plenty of predictions over the years that have never materialised – I’m sure if we went back to the 1950s there would be a few people who would be surprised (and perhaps disappointed) ...