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Keith Appleyard

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Retain the Cheques for Small Business and Small People

I see both sides of this coin at the Children's Charity (Playgroup) I run. Only yesterday I received 3 Invoices, none of which contained any Bank details, so I was obliged to pay by Cheque. I’m just finishing off a Cheque Book I started in September 2006. I even have some Suppliers whose latest Invoices show no Bank details, yet earlier Invoices di...

25 November 2009 /payments Whatever...

DEFRA Single Payment Scheme shows poor value for money

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Rural Payments Agency’s Single Payment Scheme uses a £350 million IT system to pay farmers the right amount in EU subsidies. But the National Audit Office said in a recent report that the agency’s systems are "very expensive", "cumbersome", "difficult to change t...

10 November 2009 /payments /regulation Whatever...

Ministry of Justice employees overpaid by 1.5m pounds

Freedom of Information Act requests revealed more than 1,000 staff at the department were overpaid a total of £1,522,995 over the last three years – but more than half that total will never be paid back. In one case, a civil servant nearly doubled their salary. The unnamed official was handed an extra £18,500, on top of annual earnings of £22,000. ...

25 September 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated

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 Whatever...

118 800 mobile phone directory may stay offline permanently

I wrote back on 10th June https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 and 13th July about the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3057 Good news for Privacy advocates is that following a wave of negative publicity, after initially saying the service was operating within the rules, the Offic...

28 July 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

118 800 mobile number directory crashes

I wrote back on 10th June about How to Opt out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 The controversial service has been overwhelmed by users rushing to go ex-directory The site, which launched last month, now displays a holding page http://www.118800.co.uk/service_suspended.html which reads: &...

13 July 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

How to Opt Out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory

Are you aware of the new controversial 118800 mobile phone directory which launches next week? Do you want to learn how to opt out of it? Start up firm Connectivity (www.118800.co.uk) has bought lists of 16 million phone numbers – around 40 per cent of those in regular use in the UK – and addresses, which are typically used in the premium rate in

10 June 2009 /security Whatever...

Beware Pay by Phone Cashless Payment at Car Parks

Many cities across the world are switching over to Pay by Phone Cashless Payment at Car Parks. The market leader is Verrus (www.verrus.com) who has contracts in over 100 cities across UK & North America, including Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Westminster, York, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, Seattle, Vancouver. In order to pay you have to ...

09 June 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

Parliamentary Expenses - Principles override System

We’ve all heard, and will no doubt continue to hear, lots of explanations from Members of Parliament accused of abusing the Expenses Regime, often blaming the ‘system’. Actually the Green Book 2009 www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/GreenBook.pdf places strong emphasis on Principles, which if these folks had bothered to read Section 1 of the...

29 May 2009 Whatever...

Does Merrick have a case against Savvis?

Merrick Bank has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Savvis, accusing the vendor of erroneously telling it that CardSystems Solutions complied with Visa and MasterCard security regulations. However, do they have a case? The PCI Data Security Standard Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) is a validation tool intended to assist merchants a...

27 May 2009 /regulation Whatever...

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