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Apparently, the US has just announced that it is to host Unesco's World Press Freedom Day in May next year 'in order to prove its commitment to expand press freedom and the free flow of information in this digital age'. This not a joke (oh yes it is, ed)

I can exclusively reveal that the DB cars are only available to VIP guests in Deutsche Bank's private suite (just around the corner from the Finextra office). They're bigger this year as well.

James, the headline reference to soaring cybercrime rates is specific to cases of ACH fraud against US small businesses (as referenced in the standfirst and throughout the story). Related links to other news include this story from November, with more data: FBI issues alert over spike in ACH fraud: https://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=20694

HSBC's response came through more formal channels. See here:

Finextra fat finger error. Good job we don't play the markets. Corrected.

The FSA isn't saying, but word on the street is that Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group are the two banks in the firing line.

Well, we've just had our Web stats report for March and guess what...we broke the five million barrier, turning in 5.9 million page views from 110,000 unique visitors worldwide in this month alone.

Now, where did I put that corkscrew?

First direct has posted a blog explaining how it got duped and apologising for its own response: "We tweeted quickly out of a desire to re-assure people and perhaps should have gone straight to the third of our three tweets. We should have got an apology up sooner, and we probably shouldn't have used the word "hack". Twice."

http://www.newsroom.firstdirect.com/press/release/first_direct_twitter_spam_an_a

Rather than fretting over the use and abuse of the 'h' word, I'd be rather more concerned that first direct could so easily fall victim to such an elementary social engineering/phishing scam.

On the wholesale side you might also include the creation of the Swift interbank payments network in the 1970s. Ironically, this was a byproduct of communist - rather than capitalist - thinking!

New jargon alert: It's the PC (as in politically correct) equivalent of a man-in-the-middle attack. Popular in academe.