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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

From division of labour to interactive value creation

Teemu Arina drew my attention to Esko Kilpi's blog and I picked out extensive quotes (emphasis mine) - full post certainly worth reading: "Division of labour reduces organizational effort and cost of work. Division of labour also increases the quality of efforts through specialization. For this reason all societies and all enterprises are hea...

Innovation in Financial Services

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Merchant Credit Card Transaction Monitoring

Security professionals intuitively think proactively. Our job is to predict and prevent what the bad guy will do next. My job specifically is to instill this mindset into you, the consumer, SMB or large corporate enterprise. Bob Russo, General Manager and Rockstar of the PCI Security Standards Council reminds us all in this Business Week artic...

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Keith Appleyard

Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire

Facebook - take care to check your Privacy Settings

Facebook has changed the way its privacy settings operate, asking users to change their settings even if they had already been set. Users logging on this week are presented with a new screen that they must engage with before going on to use the site. It asks users to update their privacy preferences in the light of the site's "new, simplified...

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Navin Rammohan

Navin Rammohan Principal Manager - Marketing at Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Possibly branding can save banking!

My favorite definition of branding, one that I read a long time ago goes like this - brands are about people and ideas and great brands are built when people and ideas come together. Sadly, most bank branding that you and me have seen over the years have been either only about the bank itself (read heritage, organization values, mission etc.) or o...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

The PSD 'what ifs'

Today's Innovation in Payments rountable, sponsored by the Visa Europe Research Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, was filled with many 'what ifs' in regards to the Payments Services Directive. What if settlement risk increases as a result of all these potential new payment institution entrants? What if Tesco decide to ...

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Dirk Kinvig

Dirk Kinvig Web Services Manager at Finextra

Finextra Community Private Profiles

We have rolled out another new feature for Finextra Community members. When you log into the Finextra Community and view your private profile there is now a new section called, "My colleagues" which will display 5 of your colleagues, that are also Finextra members, in random order. You can then click to view their details or follow the &...

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Keith Appleyard

Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire

National Border Targeting Centre - staff training delays

The opening of the operations centre at the heart of a new £1.2bn computer system - planned to monitor every person who enters or leaves the UK - has been delayed by staff training. The National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC), the Manchester-based clearing house for the e-Borders program, was scheduled to open this month, but to allow for staff

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Final report - roadmap to paradigmatic platform

It took some time - 26 full days of meetings and countless telephone conferences to get this report in place. But it was time well spent as the iteration rounds unified the opinions, fully supported the EU VAT directive for equal treatment of paper and e-invoices and above all underlined the fact that EU cannot afford to delay the migration - so ...

Innovation in Financial Services

Keith Appleyard

Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire

DNA evidence will still harm your employment prospects

Back in August I wrote about DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3190 County Durham police last week put the final nail in the coffin of the Home Office mantra "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", with a clear announcement that DNA and fingerprinting could harm an individual’s career prospects...

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Whose Liquidity Is It Anyway?

Two events this week crystallised the need for better pre- and post-trade information. Firstly, BATS joined ranks with Chi-X to question the LSE’s decision to set its market to auction mode during its recent outage. In a related white paper on the subject BATS also claims that “it is questionable whether the market was orderly on the LSE given pu...

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