1135 Results from 2009
Retired Member
I can see the benefit of enabling customers to retrieve and spend all of their money, especially for those customers that really depend on their last £10, including thse not so well off, children and students (obviously). However, this does strike me as a potentially cynical move on behalf of the ATM provider. If there is a £2 charge to collect you...
12 January 2009 /retail
womenintechnology.co.uk and the British Computer Society would like to invite you to W-Tech 2009, a one day recruitment, career development and networking event for female technologists including students, postgraduates, experienced professionals and returners to work. The event is taking place on Tuesday 3rd February in central London at Savoy P
09 January 2009 Women in Technology
If this is the future of regulation, then God help us. I can't think of a bigger waste of money (at least, not at the moment, but I'm sure something will turn up) than spending £1 billion plus (let's not kid ourselves, this would cost a whole lot more) on getting all banks to devise and build (and maintain) a system that provided a single customer...
09 January 2009 /regulation Transaction Banking
One of the more salient features of the current financial environment is illiquidity, a feature which has largely been associated with the credit markets. However the liquidity problem has infiltrated the private equity marketplace as well. Though still well capitalized and continuing to invest, on the horizon looms the question for the VC/PE co...
08 January 2009 Finance 2.0
Just reflecting on whether the current situation facing the institutions today has added weight to this prediction back in 2006. As the business case for Unified Communications solidifies and the pressure from the downturn intensifies, the appetite to deliver these benefits to those in the dealing room is in fact increasing in some sub-sectors. S...
08 January 2009 /regulation Unified Communications in Financial Services
...almost. So the authorities have shaved another 0.5% off rates to 'help the economy'. It certainly doesn't help savers (who are the only people with money to spend) and it must be of limited help to borrowers too (and in any case, I'd be putting any spare cash this did generate either on one side to meet rising repayments later, or reducing my...
08 January 2009 /retail Transaction Banking
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Quality PR from Sophos. I couldn't put it better myself: IT security and control firm Sophos is calling on Twitter to enforce the use of strong passwords by its members following the recent publication of details on how a hacker managed to gain access to Twitter's internal systems earlier this week. According to reports, the teenage hacker, who u...
08 January 2009 /security /retail Finance 2.0
As the inventor of the PATENTED system (6931382 USPTO) that enables cardholders to set their own user limits for their real card accounts, this validates all the work I have done to design and create this patented system. ORBISCOM's patents (tagged as 6636833 and 7136835 USPTO) are clearly limited to what they call 'limited use' card numbers which...
08 January 2009 /security Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
It's the flu season again, so time to dust off some research first published back in May last year in which researchers discovered that the human flu virus can survive on banknotes for up to 17 days. Discussing the results ahead of publication, Yves Thomas, head of the National Influenza Research Centre at Geneva University Hospital, told Reuters...
07 January 2009 /retail /wholesale
Roy McPherson
Roy McPherson - London 07 January 2009 - 11:01 Is it only me or do the statistics of this survey shock you too? This article states that 85% of respondents say they have reviewed, or are in the process of reviewing, their risk procedures. Yet only 42% of respondents have a plan to make fundamental changes to their risk processes. Does this mean th...
07 January 2009 /regulation
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