1135 Results from 2009
Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee
I appreciate the BBC Radio's weekly personal finance program 'Moneybox' may not be something that all of my blog readers are aware of, but this week it's been looking at speech recognition and biometrics as a way of authenticating customers. The article on their website is here and the podcast/recording is here. The reason for the interest is t...
09 February 2009 /security /retail
Retired Member
The scale of the Australian bushfires was overwhelming and tragic. Such serious loss of life could have been prevented. The fire's fury could be foreseen, and observed in progress, but for a total lack of preparedness and organisation on the part of government. We live in the 21st century where satellites orbit the earth constantly and fires are ea...
09 February 2009 Whatever...
Richard Barr Principal Associate at Citadel Advantage Ltd.
What? Shouldn't the association with a major failure in the financial markets be enough to disqualify Xavier Rolet as the cheif of the world's leading exchanges? I could be mistaken but I don't think that failure should be rewarded. Any key executive of a failed investment firm should not be in a position that has sway over such a large component ...
09 February 2009 /regulation
Is short selling really bad for your investments' health? There’s been plenty of debate about the rights and wrongs of short selling, but while regulators ponder intervening in the CDS market, they seem quite happy for the shorters to continue their trade. My position is simple. The bond and equity primary market is a long market, and is supported ...
09 February 2009 /wholesale
The Interchange Fee is part of the Merchant Service Charge (MSC) paid by a card acceptor (merchant) to a card issuer. Some reports state that the Interchange Fee can be 66% - 80% of the MSC and that Interchange Fees in the UK average around .79% of the transaction value, 1.35% for Belgium, 1.75% for U.S., 2% for Canada, 0.45% for Australia,
08 February 2009 /security Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Me Mum calls me last night. Shes asks “Robby, Do I have a Paypal Account?” (Yes, my mom calls me robby) I say “Why do you ask?” Shes says “Paypal sent me an email and I need to update my account” Shes 60. Been online for 5 years. Knows about as much as most “baby boomers” know about t...
07 February 2009 /security
Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Article here; Text Message Scam Interviewed for this article the victims states “I ain’t got stupid written on my forehead” I’m sure she is a lovely woman who must be smarter than her quote. She received a scam text and didnt get taken. Most of us are somewhat aware of text messaging
06 February 2009 /security
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
It's quite common for hardware manufacturers to expand into also offering software that manages and/or runs on their servers or other devices. But it's far less common to find a large pure-play software company getting into the hardware business. But it's perhaps not surprising that Tibco is moving in this direction, given that demand for low-late...
06 February 2009 /wholesale Going green
Beyond satisfying WTO requirements, one of the key rationales for allowing foreign multinational banks to buy into Chinese financial institutions was to leverage the investors’ experience to develop a more mature set of regulations and financial industry as a whole. With the slowdown going truly global, we are starting to see multi-national banks ...
06 February 2009 Asia Financial Services
Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Article here; Are You Addicted to Information Insecurity? Ben Rothke writes a great article that ties in addiction and information Insecurity, thats IN-security. Face it, you may be an addict. You might have an addiction to something like sugar, nicotine, alcohol, sex, gambling, add
05 February 2009 /security /retail
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