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A place to share stuff that isn't at all fintec related but is amusing, absurd or scary.
I didn't get to wait until the New Year for those GSM mobile phone conversations and phone banking sessions to become even more accessible to criminals (it is unlawful to intercept mobile communicatio...
Finextra is soon to head off in our separate directions for our Christmas break. So I thought I would scribble down some New Year predictions. Fed up with Sibos prices, a 'major international bank' w...
Facebook has changed the way its privacy settings operate, asking users to change their settings even if they had already been set. Users logging on this week are presented with a new screen that the...
The opening of the operations centre at the heart of a new £1.2bn computer system - planned to monitor every person who enters or leaves the UK - has been delayed by staff training. The National Bor
Back in August I wrote about DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3190 County Durham police last week put the final nail in the coffin of the Home Office ...
It has been a big year. It'll be hard to top that one but I look forward to more excitement in the world of financial services in 2010. I'd like to thank Citi for their very predictable share performa...
I appreciate that this is probably my first foray into Hyacinth Bucket territory, but I've noticed recently that there's been a new addition to the street litter here in Brussels. As the number of cig...
We hear from no less a source than a Bloomberg news columnist that the higher-ups at Goldman Sachs are loading up on pistol permits for fear of a popular uprising against God's own bankers. Now, the ...
I see both sides of this coin at the Children's Charity (Playgroup) I run. Only yesterday I received 3 Invoices, none of which contained any Bank details, so I was obliged to pay by Cheque. I’m just f...
I just needed to share this with the Finextra Community. So much better than the Window 7 house party - Push that button baby! (for those outside the UK - the Sugarbabes are an all-girl UK supergroup,...
Credit to Reuters' blogger Felix Salmon for picking this one up from the Post Secrets blog. The secret story of Thomson Reuters new logo, as told by a disaffected design team member:
Given my fairly loud views about green browser bars and snake oil (in case you haven't read them - basically I put them on a par with the guys who sell those pills alleged to make one's parts bigger)....