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Many trading strategies and volumes change throughout the day resulting in uneven latency requirements. This is the real world reality of low latency. The vendors that claim ultra-low latency are offe...
Announcement - looks like some a$$ kicking to follow.. Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power. Updated: ...
US and Egyptian officials have charged 100 people with orchestrating a phishing scam that robbed a$1.5m from Bank of America and Wells Fargo customers. 53 criminals from CA, NV and NC were named in an...
Computer Sweden writes - inspired by frequent high profile robberies - that cash is an invitation to crime. Legislators, banks and retailers are to blame for having failed to eliminate cash usage - de...
When arguing for e-banking as the main service channel it is also important to take note that like in Finland age groups up to 45 are all there http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/10/internet-users-by-a...
It may still be necessary to stress the need to develop e-banking as the main channel - from first, through second to third generation services (described here in previous posts). Counterarguments ma...
The lurking danger of the DNA database and Government ID card systems. Governments are courting disaster. At a time when we're all even more concerned about governments wasting money they are trying t...
There is a new way to opt out of Googles coverage. If the video doesn't suit you we have a suggestion from a reader. Osama Bin Laden has personally recommended a nice cotton burqa and a plastic umb...
Rumours that Twitter is in advanced talks with Google and Microsoft about striking data mining deals has resurrected speculation about the use of the microblogging site as a high frequency trading too...
We've made another subtle change at Finextra. The Careers pages are now more streamlined. Previously we had a page for searching jobs and a page for displaying a list of jobs. Having two pages that d...
"Speaking at a WFE conference in Vancouver, Federation chairman William Brodsky, said: "We've allowed the technology and the evolution of these markets to run way ahead of the regulators' ab...
Back in August, some research was released showing that having women on the board could have a negative effect on the bottom line. The survey of 2000 companies in the USA showed a correlation between...