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The story around Societe Generals ‘lost’ billions seemingly took another twist today with the news that Jerome Kerviel plans to launch court proceedings against his former employer to contest his sack...
The US has enjoyed a somewhat obsessive relationship with regulation since corporate scandals such as Enron, and more recently Amaranth, have created an over-protectionist environment for investors. T...
I look around and see a lot of money in the payments business, both to be made and being invested. It's obvious we aren't seeing the killer application out there yet but the market is heating up. I se...
The Mail app on the Mac comes with an RSS feed entitled Apple hot news which as you might expect is full of feel-good, brainwashing nonsense about all things Apple. Some of it's interesting - for exa...
Recently Steve Ellis asked why more banks aren't stepping up to the challenge of social media. It's true, few banks seem willing to embrace social media and other Web 2.0 tools, but there are a few ...
This item on the marvellous Music Thing site caught my eye - basically a London boutique investment bank intends to buy electric and classical guitars, mandolins, banjos and amplifiers to form a wacky...
It looks very much like Microsoft have won over the ISO despite the official announcement being delayed until the 2nd. It hasn't exactly been plain sailing for Microsoft with this - with assorted pro...
One thought about RFID with the contactless keyring or indeed Bank Cards or Travel Cards that seem to be springing up everywhere with varying degrees of success. Limited channels, i.e. RFID can only r...
Granted we could use a dodgy algorithm to turn the fingerprint image into gobbledegook and send that around the countryside (along with the gobbledegook creating readers) and when a single person's bi...
Police in La Crosse (WI) issued a Crime Stoppers alert and video surveillance video of a woman wrongly suspected of using a stolen credit card at a convenience store. Two different women carried out ...
Legally speaking, we can't expect the PCI to keep up with the criminals. Therefore the legal system (Federal Trade Commission) is wrong to punish merchants like Hannaford and TJX for credit card brea...
The action's heating up. This is going to be interesting to see how it shapes up and the impact it starts having on payment mechanisms here. Is there anyone who's a part of Obopay or any of their 'par...