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...an article I did a couple of years back for Wilmott magazine - might present some useful background to FpML even if the thoughts are now a little out of date - you may also think it sad (to say the least!) but it was good fun putting together the Lego OTC derivative image...
29 July 2009 /regulation Data Management 101
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Jason Truxel was denied a mortgage because of bad credit. He had no idea that his credit scores were low, so he pulled his credit reports. He discovered a tremendous amount of debt, and accounts he had never opened. One such account showed that a credit card had been opened in his name when he was 13 years old. Jason found out the hard way that he...
29 July 2009 /security /regulation
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
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...
Computerworld does a great job of aligning the childhood arcade game of Whac-A-Mole and information security. “If you’ve ever played the silly, maddening game known as “Whac-A-Mole,” you know what futility feels like. As you smack one mole with the mallet, up pops another one. Their speed and number escalates as you flail away, trying to keep up. ...
27 July 2009 /security /regulation
Privacy issues and identity theft in social media are a growing concern. Most people who post their personal information about themselves do not recognize the potential consequences of their actions, or maybe they simply don’t care if their entire life is an open book. Ask yourself, should the director of the United States Central Intelligence Age...
25 July 2009 /security /regulation
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
There are various guilt trips that people across the world have - vegans on animal cruelty, 'greenies' ,.... and now looks like even the hi tech items we use on a day to day basis are tainted with blood. Well, at least that's what this news item on Time says - http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1912594,00.html It looks like the stuff th...
25 July 2009 /regulation
Steve Scott Senior Product Manager, Business Banking at Temenos
· What’s the latest balance? · What’s arrived that I’m not expecting? · Has what I’ve paid settled? · What’s in the queues? · How are my counterparties performing? · Where are my risks? · Where can I get more liquidity? · Where’s my liquidity gone? After reading on FT.com the piece by ...
23 July 2009 /regulation
There’s a lot of excessive trust in the Facebook world. People have entirely dropped their sense of cynicism when logged on. They have no reason to distrust. People who are your “Friends” are generally those who you “know, like and trust”. In this world, your guard is as down as it will ever be. You are in the safety of your own home or office han...
23 July 2009 /security /regulation
Show of hands, how many of us remember the good old days? You remember those days, when "lost" meant something like: "I came home and set my car keys down and then moved some stuff around - when I got up in the morning, I couldn't find my keys. They were lost." or "My wife and I took a trip with the kids to Washington, D.C....
22 July 2009 /security /regulation Transaction Banking
I recently appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss email hacking. Dave Briggs, a FOX & Friends Weekend co-host, lost access to his Hotmail email account when hackers were able to guess either his password or his qualifying question. (He admitted that his password was not as strong as it should have been.) The hackers locked Briggs out of his ow...
22 July 2009 /security /regulation
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