1205 Results from 2008
Retired Member
We read about it in the press every week - how women get paid less than men and that women are far and few between in top level jobs. But is the situation really this gloomy and do glass ceilings really exist? There are certainly stats to suggest that they do. The 2007 National Management Salary Survey found that women are paid an average of 12...
06 February 2008 Women in Technology
A survey of women in IT has found that HR departments are less supportive to women than line managers and colleagues. The survey, carried out last year by Microsoft and online career and networking portal womenintechnology.co.uk, found that when asked to rate the support they received as a female employee, respondents saw HR departments as the le...
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
Now that the Northern Rock crises is moving into its next stage, although by no means final stages, its worth reflecting on how the whole thing could have been handled better. I make no apologies during this piece from stating that I am firmly in the politics and business not mixing camp. History has told us that when governments interfere in mark...
04 February 2008
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Following on from Paul Penrose's earlier blog about the $5 million beleagured E Trade spent on their Super Bowl Ad, the WSJ today, shows just what that amount of money looks like. Really, a vomiting baby? Click here to see.
04 February 2008 /retail
Gert Raeves Research Director at Adox Research Limited
If it takes a crisis to remind people of what really matters, there is no doubt that credit crunches and rogue traders have put data management at the centre of attention. The world at large has suddenly discovered what (mostly) genteel education and awareness-building by organisations like the EDM Council has said all along: Scratch the surface o...
04 February 2008 Data Management 101
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
While the US (and the world) is groggily trying to get back on its feet after the mortgage sucker punch, the knockout punch seems to be flying in! The toxic sub prime home mortgage debt of USD 900 B may be overwhelmed by an acid rain of credit card debt pouring in. The US has more than a Trillion USD of credit card receivables that is largely secu...
03 February 2008 /regulation
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Jodange has debuted Top of Mind at Demo '08 - the press release is here. Built using the expertise of a bunch of Cornell University computer scientists, Jodange claims Top of Mind is already in evaluation with seven financial institutions. According to Jodange: the product's breakthrough sentiment analysis technology, custom filters allow users t...
01 February 2008 Finance 2.0
So, the world's most sought after junket in Davos has come to a close. The economic bigwigs, CEOs, intellectual heavyweights have returned after a week of heavy duty deliberation on climate change, financial markets, sub prime, recession, emerging markets, and........... Among the many readable publications by WEF, my own favorite is the Global R...
01 February 2008 /regulation
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Here we are over 2 months after the initial Child Benefit fiasco; you would think the HMRC would have introduced controls to accept encrypted media? The Information Commissioner just issued Marks & Spencer with an Enforcement Notice giving them until 1st April 2008 (ie only 2 months) to complete encryption of all their laptops http://www.ico....
01 February 2008 /security /regulation Whatever...
In 2005 I attended an event where Nick Leeson provided an honest and forthright presentation of how he managed to create the dealing positions that eventually brought down Barings Bank. He consistently maintained that he could not have carried through his actions, which caused the loss, without the senior management's lackadaisical attitude or eve...
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