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Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
I wrote this blog post back in 2007 and keep coming back to the theme rather often. As said there - business should morally embrace the need for regulation - it cannot be avoided - be it the environment, health business, financial engineering etc.Resisting it is a sure way for making it worse - joining forces with the democratic institutions give...
22 July 2009 /retail
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Mint's online lifestyle mag does its bit to remind us all how deep in the mire we are with the snazzy 'One Trillion Dollars Visualised' animation. In layman's terms, that one trillion dollars would buy you a $3 latte every day for 900 million years. And that's only one-tenth of the current bail-out. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, people.
22 July 2009 /retail /wholesale Video extravaganza
Retired Member
As I've been circulating through a number of conversations with banks, financial services technology providers and colleagues in every conceivable sub-branch of the banking family tree these past few weeks, I continue to be both amused and disappointed by the gap between business expectations and technological realities faced in the money-moving i...
20 July 2009 /regulation /retail Transaction Banking
Alistair Kelman barrister and forensic computing expert at Self employed
Dear Mr Wolf, In your piece "Adapting to Britain’s mediocre prospects -Published: July 16 2009 20:16" you say "...It must start by making finance safer. The simple and painful truth is that another such financial shock might even bankrupt the British state. No industry can be allowed to impose such costs – comparable, in fiscal ter...
19 July 2009 /retail
Alright, I have to admit that sometimes a news story comes across the wire that is so patently absurd or bizarre that I cannot resist the urge to consider it and then comment. ATM machines that are trained to kill on sight certainly fall into the category of absurd and bizarre. I am praying that bankers in Europe and America have not read this ne
16 July 2009 /security /retail
I watched an interesting debate on Newsnight last night, on the subject of youth unemployment. It made me wonder whether the UK Government was becoming ageist, especially when it comes to employment policies. Apart from the spectacle of the Employment Minister taking every opportunity to repeat the irritating and untrue mantra that, unlike the
16 July 2009 /retail Online Banking
Twitter has suffered an embarassing security lapse after a hacker stole hundreds of confidential documents and released them in the blogosphere. Explaining the break-in, Twitter CEO Biz Stone writes: "About a month ago, an administrative employee here at Twitter was targeted and her personal email account was hacked. From the personal accoun...
16 July 2009 /retail /wholesale Finance 2.0
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
You can usualy be sure that if you see a feature update on the lives of teenagers (what gadgets they are using what slang falls from their mounths...that kind of thing) you can be sure that the information is woefully out of date. Elderly media commentators desperately trying to get 'down with the kids.' However, the FT recently ran a story here ...
13 July 2009 /retail Social Banks
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
I generally find the subject of banking, risk management, payments and so on to be pretty serious stuff. After all I have spent my entire career dealing with the various aspects of all of this. I must admit however that there is always room for a lighter side to everything. But so far I always seem to have missed these more amusing moments. So my...
12 July 2009 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
You just accept deposits and make loans with high margins. If you are a start-up bank you just pay more for the deposits and then place the money in high-earning but still quite secure loans and interesting new papers some call hybrids. If you think this is risky you just place the money in a good number of papers - all will not go bankrupt - at l
12 July 2009 /payments /retail
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