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Elton Cane

For mobile payments convenience is king

What's interesting about the DoCoMo mobile payment technology referenced in this recent story, and what differentiates it from many other m-payment initiatives operating elsewhere in the world, is th...

28 Feb 2007
Trends in Financial Services
John Doyle

SWIFT Matters

I have read several articles in the financial press recently that so obviously regurgitate old press clippings. This laziness on the part of journalists leads to some regular and common inaccuracies,...

28 Feb 2007
SWIFT Matters
Paul Penrose

Breaking the CrackBerry habit

Addled BlackBerry users looking to indulge their inclinations or control their CrackBerry habits now have a Website on which to find both a fix and a cure. CrackBerry.com offers help forums, beginner...

28 Feb 2007
John Cant

Dont you just love the internet

Well the answer is obviously yes, I do. Particularly when it throws up in that Hitch Hicker’s Guide to the Galaxy, maximum improbability drive way a gem like “Managers Say the Majority of Information...

27 Feb 2007
Trends in Financial Services
John Cant

Simplicity brings better Compliance

At MPIE we recently provided input to a whitepaper from NetApp - a leading unified storage solutions supplier - on compliance trends and how to reduce the risk and costs of their impact. I will leave ...

27 Feb 2007
MiFID
Steve Ellis

Is Second Life becoming a bit too Dutch?

Unfortunately, it seems likely that ING's 'ourvirtualholland' may have to contend with some of the issues found in 'ourrealamsterdam' - take a look at this news report from Reuters' Second Life colum...

26 Feb 2007
Elton Cane

Bank statement as a tool for identity theft

Looks like National Australia Bank (NAB) is the latest bank to fall victim to mail-out problems that compromise customer data. They're not the first, and are unlikely to be the last. The usual bank s...

26 Feb 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

A second look at Second Life

ING has made a serious stab at extending its presence beyond the realms of the physical world by announcing plans to open a Dutch mini state in screen-based 3-D universe Second Life. In making the mo...

23 Feb 2007
A Finextra Member

Data protection act issues

Data protections is something that we at Finextra take very seriously and as Finextra's DPA man I’m constantly having to ensure all data we collect and use is properly stored and updated.I’ve set up t...

23 Feb 2007
Data Protection Act Issues
Paul Penrose

Y2K-redux

It’s déjà vu all over again. An imminent early switch to daylight savings time in the US is raising fears of a Y2K-style disruption to date-sensitive computer applications. And the problems could exte...

22 Feb 2007
John Cant

Faster Payments on track

It seems appropriate to start blogging about UK Faster Payments (UKFP), the scheme to provide cheaper and easier "near real-time" via internet and phone banking, by a reference to the most ...

22 Feb 2007
UK Faster Payments
Paul Penrose

McCreevy wakes to MiFID 'nightmare'

EU internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy says the dream of a single Europe-wide rule book for equity market trading runs the risk of becoming a "practical nightmare", as euro zone re...

20 Feb 2007
MiFID

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