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With the global food crisis raging on, it is time for countries and international organisations to think of creative ways to address the issue. Giving free rations is not a viable economic answer. Con...
The issue of customers being held liable for their losses if they don't have the latest antivirus and personal firewall installed is ridiculous when we see bank's sites with major security flaws that ...
Gasoline (or Petrol - depending on which side of the Atlantic you are) prices are biting so hard now that gas station owners and consumers are planning a rally to demonstrate their grievances. See pre...
I am intrigued by the number of conferences and events on 'greening of financial services'. Unless I got it wrong, I am not sure if financial services is on the top 10 list of industries contributing ...
A single gas facility explosion has brought Australia's economic boom to a halt and many thousands of businesses face bankruptcy in the next 6 months. Despite numerous national infrastructure, terrori...
I wonder if anyone has worked out the real cost of continuing fraud, even just in the U.K. I realise that in the great totality of transactions that around £500 million isn't thought of as being all t...
White-badged visitors wander the rabbit warren of interconnected halls linked by escalators and corridors. From their designated areas, eagle-eyed sales people call out people’s names from their name ...
I notice a lot of attention in the blogosphere to this article on how the Internet (Google in particular) is turning humanity into a mass of 'thoughtless' nerds with a poor attention span and limited ...
Investments in US dollars appear to be paying off for those who put away a dollar coin or even a cent or two from 1794. The HA Long Beach coin auctions this week showed a return of 5.75% per annum o...
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a non-profit organisation involved in the fight against ID theft, has released the 2007 'ID Theft Aftermath' report. This report outlines the 'human' side of...
Web 2.0 and banking seems like an interesting mix. This article (https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18544) actually mentions several loosely coupled items related to this: Providing online ba...
There are some lovely little new systems which have well and truly taken that into account. In fact it has to be the foundation of any architecture. Robust, proven '5 nines' technology and equipment a...