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It's a Bird It's a Plane...It's Earth Day

Happy Belated Earth Day! Yes, I know Earth Day was yesterday...hence the belated...but tell the truth did you remember to celebrate? How do you celebrate the Earth? Do you hug a tree, have a neighborhood shredding day, start a compost or just pledge to be more aware? Well whatever you did to mark the day...hats off to you. Because now...today...

/wholesale Going green

Steven Husk

Steven Husk CEO at FRSGlobal

Five steps for a new approach to risk management

There has been a lot of discussion – and differing opinions - around how risk management must change in light of the financial crisis. But to find the path to recovery, there is perhaps some consensus emerging about what steps risk managers must now take. And with tight deadlines to conquer – such as the FSA’s October deadline for liquidity risk –...

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Richard Barr

Richard Barr Principal Associate at Citadel Advantage Ltd.

Moving beyond the economic swamp

I find it ever so fascinating to scan the economic news each morning. Doing so reminds me that old curse "May you live in interesting times". As almost anyone will tell you, our world market situation is certainly interesting. What it is not, is enjoyable. Our goal as a civilization, and my goal as an individual professional in this mark...

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Parental leave?

With the ever evolving legislation surrounding maternity leave, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is proposing the introduction of ‘parental leave’, to replace the regulations which make the UK the most unequal country in Europe when it comes to these arrangements. Instead of the nine months paid leave available to women now, the Commission...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Smoke, mirrors and financial accounting

How did the basket-cases of the US banking industry manage to post such, relatively, healthy results? It's all done by sleight of hand, as Dealbook helpfully explains. I particularly liked Goldman Sachs' stunt of simply eliminating a bad month from its quarterly report. That's financial genius at work. Are US banking executives so schooled in the ...

/wholesale Finextra50 fintech index

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Definition of Madness

One of the common definitions of madness is: Doing the same thing today as you did yesterday, but expecting a different result. If we all accept this definition as valid, why do so many of us resist small or modest change projects? These are the projects that could potentially generate ongoing cost savings and other benefits. There are a number ...

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Identity is a simple idea that has become a complex problem

Identity has become complex due to fraud. Fraud, motivated by money, easy credit, and the ease of account takeover. Because identity has yet to be effectively established, anyone can be you. “Identity has yet to be established” is a bold statement that really requires an entire blog post. I’ll explain briefly here and in detail another time. For

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Matt White

Matt White North America editor at Finextra

Telegraph's Twitter Fall fails

Somewhat surprisingly, the rather 'traditional' Daily Telegraph has embraced the hip new thing that is Twitter. So, it decided to add a UK Budget Twitter Fall (live streaming update of tweets) to its site. This means that any tweet containing "#budget" makes it onto the paper's site. I'm sure you'll be shocked to learn that some mischiev...

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An Opportunity to be cheerful

With special permission from Finextra we would like to invite the banking technology community to our charity event. On the evening of the 5th May CPQi Limited will be hosting 'Brazil in the City 2009' at Guanabara, Parker Street London WC2B 5PW. This celebration of Brazilian culture, with Caiparinhas, Capoeira and Samba, is in aid of Children in ...

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HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY MVC! - Here's the missing 'S'

Happy 30th Birthday to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Here at FMT Worldwide we'd like to proudly present you with a new, shiny, updated "S" as an extra special birthday present to create the Security-Model-View-Controller (SMVC) model. Perhaps it's the absence of a much needed Security layer for the past 30 years t...

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