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We hardly ever question the benefits of STP. And for the most part, STP is really a smart move. It saves on errors, manpower, time and increases profits. What's there not to like about it? Well, you a...
MasterCard recently published a report, “Benefits of Open Payments Systems and the Role of Interchange.” (direct link, background). I interviewed MasterCard’s Shawn Miles, Group Head, Global Public P...
The Disasters Emergency Committee is an umbrella group of UK charities that swing into action when needed to raise urgently needed money. At the moment they have launched an appeal for Gaza - you can ...
Many people have been after me for not keeping up with my blog. When the crisis hit everything changed. Things I was writing about suddenly seemed less relevant. Today, I can see more clearly that the...
Social networking sites: apparently they can help you find love, get that dream job and even, we're now told, live longer. That's the claim made in a press release put out today by, you guessed it, a ...
No matter which way you look at it Ken Lewis's bail-out of Merrill Lynch looks increasingly wrong-headed. John Thain - the man who sold the pony to Lewis - has now fallen on his sword after Merrill po...
...even for Northern Rock employees. There was an interesting debate on Question Time last night about the bonuses that are to be paid to Northern Rock staff. The views spanned the spectrum, from on...
During my 5 year spell as a fraudster, I used the telephone banking system almost every day, in order to keep track of the finances of those whose accounts I had taken over (this would more often tha...
I run a Children's Charity in my spare (!) time, and since I have 50 Employees the HMRC required me to to Register with the UK Government Gateway in order to make my End Of Tax Year Returns electronic...
I feel I have to stand up for the banks when it comes to the fraud concerns of Faster Payments. True, some banks have implemented temporary solutions to manage fraud resulting from Faster Payments, bu...
Malicious software designed to snatch card data, insider trading on confidential information, hackers setting up phony accounts to divert millions...what do all these things have in common? Greed! L...
Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, has been getting a bit of a hard time at his confirmation hearing over some taxes he failed to pay a few years ago. During questions from ...