4228 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Microsoft and some of the other big internet players have realised that the internet will stall without identity and trust. Web 2.0 or whatever they call it this week, is just like the real world. Linden Labs 'get a life' stalled pretty quickly without it and they had to go to IBM to try and help them fix it. Linden's problem wasn't all ID, there ...
09 April 2008 /regulation Information Security
George Soros has 'come out of retirement' albeit to launch his new book Credit Crisis 2008 and what it means. I haven't had time to read it yet so I'll go by his spoken words. Recent statements by Mr Soros on market transparency and market dynamics give food for thought. Perhaps if he could have given a little earlier warning of what was to come ...
09 April 2008 /regulation /wholesale Whatever...
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Who would want to be a bank boss? Andrew Clare from the Cass Business School, clearly thinks it worth a punt. From the letters page of the FT: Sir I know that this is not normally the forum to advertise one's qualifications in the hope of finding a new career, but hopefully you will excuse the liberty. I have no experience whatsoever in running a b...
08 April 2008 /regulation /wholesale Whatever...
Two bank workers who stole 45 million yuan (HK$49.93 million) to buy lottery tickets have been executed in Hebei province, according to an AFP report quoting the Xinhau News Agency. The two vault managers started taking money from the safe to play the state lottery, hoping they would eventually win back enough to replace the missing funds. Makes y...
07 April 2008 /regulation /wholesale Whatever...
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
The FBI (National White Collar Crime Center - Internet Crime Complaint Center) released their latest 'Internet Crime Report' for 2007. See http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2007_IC3Report.pdf The report actually claims a reduction in the number of Internet crimes reported to the ICCC in 2007 when compared to 2006. Does this mean Internet crime ...
05 April 2008 /security /regulation
PwC research shows more than a quarter of UK companies do not have a disaster recovery plan and half of these have not been tested. 92% of companies surveyed believe that disaster recovery is "an important driver" of their IT spending, but over half haven't quite got around to planning or testing their plan regularly. Well - disaster is ...
04 April 2008 /regulation
Well, Blogs and Social media have made terrific inroads into our lives. This conference promises to be interesting. Check out: http://www.icwsm.org/2008/index.shtml Shows how important these channels are going to be and how much they are likely to influence many business decisions.
03 April 2008 /regulation
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Fair Isaac is the technology company most damaged by the subprime crisis. In fact some banks, such as HSBC Finance, have said its ubiquitous FICO credit scoring system contributed to the problem by being "ineffective" in predicting behaviour during a period of aggressive lending and low interest rates. I don't know the FICO system well
02 April 2008 /regulation /retail Finextra50 fintech index
"A few fundamental tenets of sound financial judgment appear to have been violated." That's the typically understated view of the Bank for International Settlements, in its first official review of the havoc wreaked on the financial markets by wanton abuse of credit risk transfer instruments. The central bankers bank first reviewed the CR...
02 April 2008 /regulation /wholesale Finexpo
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
For the last two years there has been no end of so called experts announcing how MiFID would totally change the securities market in Europe. Noticeably their message of gloom was modified as MiFID neared towards implementation and no clouds had been spotted to fulfil the MiFID soothsayers, scaremongering and trying to panic the market. After MiFID...
31 March 2008 /regulation MiFID
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