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PIVAS – Payment Information Value Added Services: A platform that lets retailers deliver targeted promotions at the POS, via credit or debit card receipts (lots more here). A few of my prior blog pos...
Richard Baker, Chief Executive of the Managed Funds Association and a former Senator, has recently pronounced, "It's wrong to say hedge funds are lightly regulated...you have vice of regulatory c...
The recent announcement that the European Commission has been so perturbed by the FSA interpretation of the MiFID Best Execution definition, that it has brought it back for redefinition, could be an i...
Among the doom and gloom in capital markets across the world, the only stray streak of silver lining appears to be the impending IPO of Visa Inc. Much has been written by analysts on whether Visa can ...
Diebold is one of the leading vendors of ATMs worldwide, and is now in the news: http://www.diebold.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=dbd Whatever the outcome of the current boardroom hassle, it is ...
I must put my hand up here and suggest a solution. We'll happily prevent all ID and card fraud for 5p per transaction for the majority of Brits who have a mobile phone. The criminals won't know who ha...
The BBC have rolled out a beta version of their iPlayer for the iPhone. And it's stunning. Needs WiFi to work but the picture and sound quality are excellent. I'm just watching Panorama now. I mean -...
Looking at recent market activity it is difficult to imagine a time when companies might actually decide once again to engage in strategic transactions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in financial...
Finextra have been advertising the whitepaper relating to the need for financial services companies to record mobile phones for some weeks now and the response from the finance industry has been over ...
Although a much younger company than most banks, Google offers a great example of how to keep innovation flowing. They actually empower their staff to help the company innovate and develop. One of the...
Political savvy – do women in IT have it? Over three quarters (77%) of attendees at a recent womenintechnology.co.uk networking event, co-hosted with Société Générale, felt that they did not have suf...
The recent report from Tower Group expressing deep concern about the impact of the Payments Services Directive (PSD) between banks and their corporate customer's, makes very interesting reading. It ap...