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Paul Penrose

Royal Bank builds its own glasshouse

UK insurance group Admiral has ended talks with private equity investors about the sale of a stake in its price comparison Website confused.com. Admiral says the potential suitors put a valuation on t...

13 Jul 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

The seven billion dollar man

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has tapped Michael Capellas to take over as CEO of First Data when its $7 billion buy out goes through later this year. Capellas made his name as a corporate turnaround artist...

12 Jul 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
Paul Penrose

Payments online? Just print out and fax back the form

As the main UK payments body, Apacs forecasts payment trends, conducts market research and collates industry statistics. Publications such as ‘The way we pay: UK plastic cards 2007’, come with a £25...

06 Jul 2007
EBAday
Paul Penrose

Fidelity terminates employee; buries bad news

Fidelity National Information Services has disclosed an embarrassing instance of data theft by an employee of its Certegy payments processing subsidiary. The misappropriated information included names...

03 Jul 2007
Paul Penrose

An interview with Merrill Lynch's Diane Shueneman

The McKinsey Quarterly has bagged an interview with Diane Schueneman, the head of Merrill Lynch's Global Infrastructure Solutions unit. The new division combines the firm's IT and operations arms. Sc...

02 Jul 2007
Paul Penrose

The public demise of Rich Marin

Rich Marin, the embattled head of Bear Stearns asset management arm, was forced to step aside Friday in the wake of the near-collapse of two hedge funds associated with his division. He remains with t...

02 Jul 2007
Paul Penrose

The new clean green brigade

HSBC, the 2006 winner of the FT's sustainable banking awards, has committed a further US$90 million over five years to reduce the bank’s impact on the environment through a series of initiatives, incl...

29 Jun 2007
Going green
Paul Penrose

The 'No Glue' future

Kevin Anderson reports for the Guardian IT on an exercise organised by the Economic and Social Research Council to consider what sort of world the interplay and advances in nanotechnology, genomics,...

29 Jun 2007
Futuristic Banking
Paul Penrose

OMX deal scant consolation for Greifeld

At last some positive news from overseas for Bob Greifeld and the Nasdaq stock market. The decision by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited to extend by five years a technology support deal with O...

26 Jun 2007
Paul Penrose

ATM creator forecasts the demise of hard cash

John Shepherd-Baron, the former De La Rue executive credited with inventing the first ever cash machine back in 1967, now believes that the ubiquitous ATM will be made redundant within the next three ...

25 Jun 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

To catch a thief; a personal story of identity theft

Ever wonder what it’s like to have your identity stolen? Fighting back now, an identity theft Web log set up by Karen Lodrick relates an everyday personal story of identity theft, the lackadaisical ...

25 Jun 2007
Paul Penrose

In blogs we trust

Consumer confidence in the retail banking industry has "eroded significantly", with an overwhelming majority of UK customers - 71% - saying they do not trust their banks, according to resear...

22 Jun 2007
Trends in Financial Services

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