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Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Today in post-Bank Holiday London a group of climate change campaigners snuck onto the RBS trading floor in the Bishopsgate offices and glued themselves together. The WSJ has printed a few words on the incident. RBS staff were told not to leave the building. But it seems the pasted-protestors, who had disguised themselves as building workers, sta...
01 September 2009
Retired Member
Thought you'd like to see this snap of my teen daughter seeing if she has what it takes for a career in the financial services industry or any pursuit really. I'm pretty sure she'll do ok. What do you think?
29 August 2009
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
E-mail is so 2001. Prince Obi Matumbe Akumbe knows this and has turned to YouTube and Twitter in his bid to find a kind soul willing to help him transfer $50 million out of Nigeria. Anyone prepared to hand over bank account details will be compensated to the tune of $10 million. Unfortunately, we live in a cynical world and some people seem less ...
28 August 2009 /retail
Banks aren't alone in their lack of innovation. Large IT companies seem to 'borrow' a bit more than ideas from entrepreneurial innovators. I'm referring to the technological rather than marketing oriented innovations, although that seems to be an active area of copying too. The best ideas encompass both. Microsoft use a 'product activation' featur...
26 August 2009 /security
As a follow-up to the Maddoff thing I thought I'd take a look at the landscape post blitz to see how the 'alternative investment' market was going scamming new victims. I couldn't get past A. I chose to search for keywords like trust, investment, return, exceptional, guaranteed,. I came up with 'aim' 'trust'. I made two random choices - aimtrust an...
25 August 2009
The Australian government has removed a significant hurdle which made it difficult for competitors to enter the excange market in Australia when they removed the ASX's powers of supervision over brokers and passed it to ASIC. Liquidnet, Chi-X and AXE ECN are in the game. Well anyone in the know can see why he's Gone-ski. Australia's insider tra...
24 August 2009
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Over the past twenty years, DNA analysis has revolutionised forensic science, and has become a dominant tool in law enforcement. DNA evidence is key to the conviction or exoneration of suspects of various types of crime, from theft to rape and murder. However, the disturbing possibility that DNA evidence can be faked has been overlooked. Scientist...
19 August 2009 /security /regulation
While the amounts of data which have been collected on your personal internet activities will provide research fodder for marketers into the next decade the practise is soon to come to an end. Investors are abandoning BT firms faster than legislation to ban it can be drafted. "Given the trend in 'Do Not Call' lists, who would rationally inves...
18 August 2009
I occasionally make predictions. It is sometimes unpopular. While some foresaw the credit crunch, few foresaw the ancillary effects. I did. I see something much darker, or brighter depending on your perspective. I see the failure of some large nations. They are in imminent danger of collapsing into anarchy. The fall of Russia is incomparable with w...
15 August 2009
I came across a web page yesterday that I had to share. Someone with 2 weeks left on their 6 month probabtionary period at work updated their face book status and forgot that they'd added their boss as one of their friends. The face book status was quite derogatory and ended up with the girl being told not to come back to work via a facebook statu...
11 August 2009
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