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Lucy Clark - Certeco - London | 28/12/2012 | 2985 views | 1 comment

UBS Fine - Banks Need to Clean Up Reputations In 2013

Things can’t get much worse for UBS. Weeks after it was rocked by an FSA fine for almost £30 million for failure to detect the trading of a fraudulent banker, the Swiss bank was last week slammed with an almighty fine of almost £1 billion for manipulating Libor rates. The fine is the second largest fine ever levied on a bank and i... Tags: Risk & regulation

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 28/12/2012 | 2763 views

My name is Guy. Same Guy. Reissued

My name is Guy. Mr Same Guy. I show up in as a so called private customer off hours, then during working hours as a corporate customer, as a citizen in public sector services and often also as a member of associations, clubs etc. My point is that there are no corporate customers, no private customers, no citizens etc - only human customers or user... Tags: Mobile & online, PaymentsGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Henry Woodcock - Avelo - Cirencester | 21/12/2012 | 3443 views

Ten Months of the Mortgage Market in 140 characters or less

Ten Months of the Mortgage Market Social Media in 140 characters or less A selection of my tweets on the mortgage market over the last ten months - at last the market is recovering albeit slowly. March Stamp Duty - It may only be March but the holiday’s over : Do the numbers stack up? http://t.co/X0bNPtFT How a buy-to-let boom has transfo... Tags: Retail bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

David Webber - Intelligent Environments - Kingston | 21/12/2012 | 3294 views

Many channels but one brand voice

In the current economic climate, it would be reasonable to expect that price points might be beginning to erode brand loyalty for consumers, as they seek out the best deals at the expense of their favourite retailers. However, a recent survey from e-commerce and digital marketing solutions provider EPiServer revealed that the majority of online sho... Tags: Mobile & online, Retail banking

Pat Carroll - ValidSoft - London | 20/12/2012 | 5266 views

Dexter malware, targeting Christmas shoppers

The holiday season is a prime time for fraudsters to target consumers' credit cards and it's not surprising that Dexter has come to light a week before Christmas. Dexter is yet another malware variation that targets point-of-sale purchases by skimming debit and credit cards and stealing account holders' details for subsequent fraudulent use. Dex... Tags: Cards, SecurityGroup: Information Security