1135 Results from 2009
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Well perhaps, that is if you take up Michael Moore's invitation to help him out with his next film project. < I am looking for a few brave people who work on Wall Street or in the financial industry to come forward and share with me what they know. Based on those who have already contacted me, I believe there are a number of you who know "...
23 February 2009 /regulation /wholesale
Kumar Jm Business Consultant at Indian Fortune 500
I found an interesting article captioned "Bill Adds Hurdles for Foreign Hires" on Wall Street Journal online edition. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123517509078737427.html Serious lobbying is in progress to restrict hiring of expat experts / workers by banks receiving funding under the TARP program. To put things into perspective the cu...
21 February 2009 /regulation /wholesale
Retired Member
This market is playing with our future like a dog with a ball. Consider that one year ago RBS paid $100bn for ABN Amro. That seemingly impossible amount would now buy: more
21 February 2009 /retail Transaction Banking
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
A poll of CEOs at Fortune 1000 companies conducted by Frost & Sullivan has concluded that the global economic slump is all the fault of 'the media', which is twisting facts and exaggerating economic statistics in a desperate bid to sell more copies and attract more eyeballs. "Because of this, consumers and business have frozen spending, c...
20 February 2009 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Robert Siciliano Stupid people get hooked by phishers. You have to be a complete idiot to get sucked into a scam email that has typos making requests that are geared toward naïve simple minded pea brain fools. Right? Yes? No? So why have phishing attacks risen dramatically in 2008? That’s 66% higher than in 2007. Have we gotten dumber or are the
20 February 2009 /security
PayPal in Germany recently conducted an interesting experiment to see how far you can get in the offline world using just an iPhone and a PayPal account. The firm equipped two competing teams on a trip from their hometowns to Hamburg – approximately 280 miles – with instructions that they could only pay for any goods and services they needed using ...
20 February 2009 /payments /retail EBAday
According to a recent article apologies matter to China. The focus of the article was on the Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps who addressed fans in China following photographs published of him smoking marijuana. He never specifically apologizes apparently but the intent is clear, according to his spokespeople. Hmm. Why do we not put a greater emphas...
19 February 2009 Whatever...
Robert Siciliano What happens when you have an unlocked door at the home of and employee at the top U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory? How about 3 stolen computers with yet to be disclosed data, that was said to be non-classified. We hope. Were the computers stolen to be resold for crack? Or for nuclear weapons secrets? We may never know. Or we ma
19 February 2009 /security /regulation
Ok here’s what I’ve been working on. The patent was filed this week, so I can finally talk about it. Taggo is deigned to add mobile tap and go convenience and one-step enrolment to existing loyalty and rewards card programs in a very simple and cost-effective way. See the 15 minute presentation with audio here. Faced with the growing proliferat...
19 February 2009 /payments
Robert Siciliano Often I’m called to provide perspective on breaking news as it relates to personal security, violence and fraud. Tonight it was bank robbery. In Boston a white male suspect in his 20’s has robbed at least 4 banks since Feb. 3rd and two of those were done today within a few miles of each other. In the first, he went up to a teller
18 February 2009 /security /regulation
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