1135 Results from 2009
Retired Member
Interesting development by Barclays in adding contactless technology to all their debit cards. I wonder whether they are planning to offer people the option to opt out of the card type, i.e. have a debit card without the contactless capability...? I think that's the choice I would like to make at this point until I understood how safe it was on th...
06 January 2009 /retail Transaction Banking
Now in public BETA is our new BEST OF THE WEB section. You'll find this in the left navigation on our community pages and it rounds up our editorial team's personal pick of the best Fintech blogging sites in one handy page. If you're curious - this is the list of blogs we monitor in no particular order: Sean Park, The Park Paradigm Brandon McGee, ...
06 January 2009 Finextra site news
I've been using logmein for over a year now - it gives you secure access to a remote computer via a web browser and it works very well indeed. I see there is now a version that runs on the iPhone - available from the Apps store which promises the same functionality - but on your phone, or your iPod touch. Crikey, etc. Now that's clever. Slightly ...
06 January 2009
Iosif Itkin CEO at Exactpro
To be honest, I remain skeptical about the necessity to invest heavily into Risk Management technology. It seems to me that the issue is not in software or hardware but in general assumptions and practices. Let’s take pricing and valuation - server farms with thousands of servers running Monte-Carlo and stress tests for structured products did not...
06 January 2009 /regulation MiFID
If you want to see experts scramble, ask for a prediction, wait 12 months and then go back for comments on why and how they got it wrong. Let’s face it expertise is no guarantee when it comes to predicting the future. The world is unpredictable because people are unpredictable and despite what all of us egocentric human types believe—the world is ...
06 January 2009 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
I'm actually on holidays and of course I come across those fingerprint biometric readers which are being fooled with special tape enabling travelers to perhaps use your identity along with your fingerprints. Terrorists, prostitutes and all manner of criminals continue to roam the world using other people's identities. Good idea that one, just ask ...
06 January 2009 /security Whatever...
The economic situation we are in has amply demonstrated how Labour doesn't understand finance well enough to be left in charge of the economy. The worrying thing for me is that the Conservatives are showing a similar lack of basic understanding. What chance do we have of getting out of this mess if both parties cannot understand finance at a bas...
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
US bank Wells Fargo is taking its experience with social media into unchartered territory (for the banking industry) with the launch of a new blog designed to keep customers up-to-speed with progress on its merger with Wachovia. The Wells Fargo - Wachovia blog will feature regular contributions from five team members - including CEO John Stumpf - ...
05 January 2009 /retail Finance 2.0
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
For those of you who have been out of touch during the festive season, on New Year’s Eve reports began flooding across the Internet that Microsoft’s Zune media player was experiencing a worldwide freeze. The glitch, caused by software that did not account for the extra day in the 2008 leap year, apparently affected only the 30GB Zune models releas...
05 January 2009 Whatever...
Ainsley Ward Vice President, Payments Solutions at CGI
Strange things happen once the mince pies start to settle, just after you've finished seething at the Queen's speech and set the kids up with the latest Disney. This year a cousin and I began to debate what we'd change following last year's global bust - and in doing so we defined our vision of Post-apocalyptic new capitalism – which I'd like to s...
05 January 2009 /regulation Whatever...
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