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Paul Penrose

Does Tom Glocer really blog?

That was the question asked by Andrew Martin at The New Marketing blog site. He'd noticed that postings to Tom Glocer's blog seemed to be made by two individuals. The first is Tom Glocer who has po...

20 Mar 2007
A Finextra Member

Hi tech security defeated by choccies and winning smile

The strangest story of the last couple of days concerns the removal of over 14 million pounds worth of diamonds from a secure vault at ABN Amro in Antwerp. Possibly the biggest robbery carried out by ...

19 Mar 2007
Whatever...
Paul Penrose

Book your tickets to Boston

Registration for Swift's annual conference and exhibition, Sibos 2007, officially opens today. Taking place in Boston, US, from 1 to 5 October 2007, the theme of this year's event is 'Gaining momentu...

19 Mar 2007
Finextra@Sibos
A Finextra Member

Take care how you type those URLs

I've been working on the EBAday site at www.ebaday.com and noticed for some reason I keep mistyping the URL when I forward links to colleagues. As it happens, the subject matter on www.ebayday.com is...

19 Mar 2007
A Finextra Member

Zopa continues preparation for expansion outside UK

Zopa beefs up the management strucuture with a seasoned expert in the unsecured field appointed as Global CEO. With $34 million raised now, and the appointment of this position, this may be signallin...

19 Mar 2007
Trends in Financial Services
John Doyle

Recovering Bank Charges - 1

Finextra, in common with much of the financial press has covered the issue of bank charges in depth and because of the press coverage I conducted my own investigation this weekend and was surprised to...

19 Mar 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Missing Link for Lloyds TSB Registrars

Shares in Lloyds TSB have firmed up on weekend reports that UK ATM network operator Link has emerged as the frontrunner to buy the bank's share registration arm. Link, backed by US buy-out firm Bain C...

19 Mar 2007
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Elton Cane

ABN AMRO carve-up: the IT implications

The business pages over the weekend featured coverage of the merger talks between Barclays and ABN AMRO. Whether or not Barclays succeeds, the pressure from hedge fund investors and the number of oth...

19 Mar 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Are all supermarkets evil?

Peter Roberts asked earlier: Are all retail banks evil? The UK’s banks have had a lot of bad press lately. From gross – and it seems illegal – overcharging to a succession of mis-selling scandals, th...

16 Mar 2007
Steve Ellis

Does this apply to all Taco Bell customers?

Presumably these little guys were using the dine and dash payment free method.

16 Mar 2007
Elton Cane

Trouble in India, and its impact on outsourcing

Finextra received some interesting feedback from a reader today about this story, which covered NAB considering further Indian outsourcing. Our reader pointed out that with Maoist insurgents having s...

16 Mar 2007
Trends in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Are all retail banks evil?

I confess I was a little shocked by the revelation that UK banks had dumped customer data in bins and Chris Skinner's blog was an interesting read. I was disappointed to see the Co-operative bank li...

15 Mar 2007

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