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Not the best news from the Daily Telegraph and Finextra, but perhaps one of the first signs of the credit crunch hitting the call centres of UK financial services firms. I'd wondered in January th...
Going by the events of the 10 days, it looks like Lady Subprime who has been grabbing all our attention has serious competition. The 'World Food Crisis' threatens to take us back to the basics and mak...
Organisations that are tempted to cut back on green PC initiatives as part of wider IT cost-cutting efforts may find themselves out of pocket in the near- to mid-term, according to Gartner. For most ...
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...
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...
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...
I look around and see a lot of money in the payments business, both to be made and being invested. It's obvious we aren't seeing the killer application out there yet but the market is heating up. I se...
Fair Isaac is the technology company most damaged by the subprime crisis. In fact some banks, such as HSBC Finance, have said its ubiquitous FICO credit scoring system contributed to the problem by
Dog racing on ice? (The Daily Mirror). Nicolas Sarkozy to be stretched? (the Sun - natch). UBS share price soars on news of massive write-downs? (All financial press - the madness of markets). On Apri...
Legally speaking, we can't expect the PCI to keep up with the criminals. Therefore the legal system (Federal Trade Commission) is wrong to punish merchants like Hannaford and TJX for credit card brea...