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Buysides Finally Getting Some OTC Derivatives Love!

The ISITC OTC Derivatives Working Group, of which I am a member, recently announced its Market Practice for Contract Notification. I've been involved with OTC Derivatives trading operations and technology for almost 20 years now, the last 10 primarily on the buyside. When I first joined an FpML working group, allocations weren't even part of the ...

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Cedric Pariente

Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants

Windows 7 RTM Activation Already Cracked

It's been less than a week since Windows 7 was released to manufacturer and already we're seeing reports that Windows 7 RTM Ultimate has been cracked using an OEM product key from computer manufacturer Lenovo (though the crack isn't limited to their hardware). Download Squad points out that, while Microsoft could potentially sort this out, it seem...

/security /regulation Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Protecting email While Traveling From Identity Theft

You’re traveling on business or vacation and you log into a public computer to check your email. You enter your credentials, read a few emails, delete some spam, fire off a note to a colleague at work, and log out. You think nothing of it, but before you know it, your email account has been hijacked. Your friends, family and business associates

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Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

Do banks really understand innovation?

A current question doing the rounds about banks and innovation really got me thinking. Are banks really interested in innovation or are these "innovators" just few and far between? When we speak about innovation it is not only technology. Innovations can come about without any technological advance. There is a distinction between "pr...

/regulation Innovation in Financial Services

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I still think FpML and Lego should talk...

...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of years back for Wilmott magazine - might present some useful background to FpML even if the thoughts are now a little out of date - you may also think it sad (to say the least!)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...

/regulation Data Management 101

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Child Identity Theft Victims

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...

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Keith Appleyard

Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire

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...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

A Whac A Mole Approach to Preventing Identity Theft

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. ...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Sir John Sawers; Social Media Privacy and Personal Security

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...

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Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Isn't there anything untainted anymore?

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...

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