1135 Results from 2009
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Rural Payments Agency’s Single Payment Scheme uses a £350 million IT system to pay farmers the right amount in EU subsidies. But the National Audit Office said in a recent report that the agency’s systems are "very expensive", "cumbersome", "difficult to change t...
10 November 2009 /payments /regulation Whatever...
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
The news that SWIFT has been organising meetings between payment banks and several large Corporates in their Le Hulpe offices could be seen as great news by many hoping for streamlining in the Eurozone payments area however, does it conceal the real worries that we should be concerned with? SWIFT as we all know is a cooperative organisation owned ...
10 November 2009
Retired Member
So it's been 5 years since I was working with my dear friends at Cyota (since acquired by RSA Security) whereby we introduced the world's first anti-phishing takedown service. On reflection, I'm simply astonished as to how this topic has become a mainstream conversation that most generations are able to to describe, and communicate as to how thi...
10 November 2009 /security
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Earlier this week, an IT employee was indicted for stealing the identities of 150 of his coworkers at Bank of New York Mellon, to the tune of 1.1 million bucks. He bilked almost $140,000 a year over an eight year period by compromising the online bank accounts of numerous employees and wiring money to fraudulent accounts outside the bank. This is...
09 November 2009 /security /regulation
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Most of us have seen how small enterprises can be innovative, fast and agile - when larger ones show up as lumbering giants - trying desparately to cure themselves with new "management" tools. Long way to go before management is less about control and more about leading change. One reason for favoring large enterprises has been that the ...
08 November 2009 /payments
A Nordic study (PTS in Sweden) reveals that the mobile share of minutes in outgoing telephone calls in 2008 were the following: Finland 83% Norway 55 Denmark 54 Iceland 48 Sweden 41 The study is claiming that fixed line telephony was so much cheaper in Sweden that this explains the difference compared to F...
08 November 2009 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants
Others can't resist gambling, drinking, smoking... There are plenty of vices on earth. But I think gambling is the most vicious. Not necessarily the most dangerous for health, but definitely the most vicious. Simply because it can easily change the way you think. The worst thing that can happen to you is to win!!! If you win the first time, gamblin...
07 November 2009 /regulation Transaction Banking
IT is blindingly apparent how to compete in the big bad world of investment banking (stinking). I don't suppose I'll be getting too many investment offers but to tell you the truth their money stinks to high heaven. I expect that a full FBI investigation into a lot of those fancy investment products would uncover a mass of bribed local officials, f...
06 November 2009 Whatever...
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
A few years ago I was at a talk with Scott McNeally of Sun Microsystems just after the Oscars in the US. He remarked how wonderful the Oscars were "A whole industry gathers to award prizes - to themselves." Not for nothing is marketing the 'dark art'. I've worked at publications where a day before an awards ceremony when faced with no vo...
06 November 2009
Pierre Boulle Managing Director at Investors Europe
First Published 16th March 2009. Links proving point view updated since this date. Despite massive successive capital injections, big banks on government life support continue to be battered from pillar to post confirming what a blind man could have told you a long time ago: the self proclaimed Masters of the Universe have been walking zombies for...
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