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Supermum?

Returning to work after having a baby seems to be a hot topic at the moment. First of all, it was disclosed that there are EU plans which set to ban women from returning to work within six weeks of gi...

22 Jan 2009
Women in Technology
Bo Harald

Action is ALL

Quoting Tom Peters: "I have learned only three things in forty years. One, he or she who has the best relationships takes home the price. Two, all effective leaders are full-time sales people. An...

21 Jan 2009
Paul Penrose

Heartland Payment Systems' Obama moment

Heartland Payment Systems first began receiving fraudulent activity reports from the card schemes late last year indicating a possible breach in its defences. The company called the Secret Service and...

21 Jan 2009
A Finextra Member

Breaking up the Banks

Each day we hear of another bank deep in a hole of its own making. The billions and eventually trillions of tax payer's money pitched into banks is taking some time to take effect and get the busines...

21 Jan 2009
EBAday
Elton Cane

The joy of transaction-based recurring revenue

Intelligent Environments appears to have lived up to the first part of its name with the revenue model it has in place with a growing number of customers. Not only does it take a small one-off fee eac...

20 Jan 2009
Going green
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Improved on Finextra - the search engine

One of my colleagues here pointed out that our search engine on the site wasn't bringing back the right results if you typed in web 2.0. I thought it was just displaying good taste - the phrase web 2....

20 Jan 2009
Finextra site news
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Speeding up Windows - two tricks to try

We've already pondered why Windows slows down over time and had some handy tips from the community, so I thought I'd share some more of mine as I started to do last year. I'll assume your machine is ...

20 Jan 2009
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Denial of Business Attacks: A big headache coming your way?

YOU PROBABLY HAVE MULTI-LEVEL FIREWALLS IN PLACE. And, you've invested in state-of-the-art monitored intrusion prevention systems. You are even enforcing strong passwords for all the staff in your co

20 Jan 2009
A Finextra Member

Bank Loan Insurance Must End

If you go back less than a working generation, a bank would lend money and then manage that loan through to complete repayment. If it had done its assessment properly, and if the customer was fortuna...

19 Jan 2009
Transaction Banking
Steve Ellis

A Poster Child for 419 victims

This Canadian news story has provided a human face - that of a John Rempel - for the people who fall prey to 419 phishing scams. Sadly his unbelievable gullibility (or is that stupidity) doesn't gene...

19 Jan 2009
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Bank Compounds The Mailshot Insult

Incredible. As I indicated in a previous blog, I sent a letter to my bank seeking clarification about my credit standing with them after they had sent me a loan offer priced at the astronomical rate o...

19 Jan 2009
Online Banking
John Cant

Learning lessons from Murphy at 60

If Murphy’s Law didn’t already exist, they would have had to invent it to help explain what has happened to the financial sector over the past six months or so. Over the years there have been many pro...

19 Jan 2009
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