1135 Results from 2009
Retired Member
Back a while now I made a few predictions and offered a few suggestions in my finextra blog. They were to do with what was about to happen. It appears that I had a pretty good handle on the future. One of the key points was to be on the ball when it came to deals in the wake of what I predicted would be somewhere between a recession and a depressi...
06 October 2009 Whatever...
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
I got an email from someone today asking: 'when I wrote RIA, did I mean Rich Internet Applications or Registered Investment Advisors?' Of course, it is the sloppy journalist who relies on jargon (or acronyms!) in their writing. The easiest way to make sure your readers understand what you are saying, is to say it in plain, simple and straightforwar...
06 October 2009 /retail Whatever...
The old adage that ‘prevention is better than cure’ is especially applicable when it comes to banks’ card fraud detection efforts. The best customer service is of course to prevent fraud from occurring in the first place. However, no matter what measures banks take, there will always be some fraud that slips through the net. Therefore, banks must ...
06 October 2009 /payments
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Computerworld reports the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Informed P2P User Act, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. Yawn. The bill now goes to the House for one more round of approval. If passed, the bill requires developers to explain to users how their files will be made avail...
06 October 2009 /security /regulation
According to blog reports, and reported on BBC online, thousands of hotmail account passwords have obtains as part of a phishing scam and posted on a website. One tech blog estimates that as many as 10,000 email accounts have been compromised by publishing their passwords. Most of these accounts belong to people in Europe. Microsoft told BBC News ...
05 October 2009 /security
If I were Rupert Murdoch...I'd be in trouble. Some of our Greek readers will no doubt be considering my response many months ago when I was approached to participate in some Greek projects. I answered that I said that there was going to be a large political upheaval in Greece and the stakeholders would not be there. I would reconsider after the el...
05 October 2009 Whatever...
Wired reports the inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is investigating a potential data breach affecting 70 million records of U.S. military veterans. The issue involves a defective hard drive the agency sent back to its vendor for repair without first destroying the data. Once the drive was diagnosed and f...
05 October 2009 /security /regulation
I have a hate relationship with IVRs. I hate the inevitably patronising tone of the voice, the layouts, the fact that many of them have been designed by people who think they have brains the size of the galaxy, but obviously no real life, and the option I want is always at the end... I had reason to use my card issuer's IVR this weekend. I was a...
04 October 2009 /retail Online Banking
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Could this be the order? 1. see the big picture - exciting to say the least 2. get the fundament in place - fast before the market is hopelessly fragmented 3. bold steps to migrate (deadlines for unstructured invoicing, transparent pricing) - can we afford anything else? 4. then start building on the mass market platform - legislators surely needed...
04 October 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
The Debtors/Consumer revolt has begun, Get those retirement pads ready, its going to get hotter in the banking kitchen. CNN story or her acadamy award nomination video at youtube
03 October 2009 Whatever...
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