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China: The opportunity riding the dangerous wind

Beyond satisfying WTO requirements, one of the key rationales for allowing foreign multinational banks to buy into Chinese financial institutions was to leverage the investors’ experience to develop a...

06 Feb 2009
Asia Financial Services
Robert Siciliano

ID Theft Expert: Are You Addicted to Information Insecurity?

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Article here; Are You Addicted to Information Insecurity? Ben Rothke writes a great article that ties in addiction and information In

05 Feb 2009
A Finextra Member

Half A Million Salary Limit For Bailed Out Bankers?

President Obama has reacted to the excess payments on Wall St by proposing to limit salaries to $500,000 for senior executives of banks which get a bail-out. It won't be retrospective, so those who ha...

05 Feb 2009
Whatever...
Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano on CNN Thursday 2.5.9 Phishing Scams

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano on CNN 2/5/9 “Facebook Scams” Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Protection Expert www.IDTheftSecurity.com on CNN today discussing phising scams, social networks ...

05 Feb 2009
A Finextra Member

Fraud Jump Directly Connected to Data Breach Epidemic

Last week, Finextra carried a report from Cifas that UK fraud rose 16% in 2008. The recession was blamed for more Brits turning to crime. A big part of the increase was also attributed to a 207% jump...

05 Feb 2009
Steve Ellis

Transparent Bank Corp.? Will it fly?

Couple of interesting, not unrelated stories. Mr Jeff Jarvis gets a knock back for a new style of bank while in Davos. Whereas Mr Barack Obama applies a salary cap to failed bank execs. Is there a...

05 Feb 2009
Finance 2.0
Robert Siciliano

Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat?

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Excellent article by Richard Adhikari here; Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Lax attention to critical security patches co...

04 Feb 2009
A Finextra Member

IT Integration Can't Wait

In tough economic times, it's easy to and sometimes extremely necessary to rethink projects and initiatives that will not have an immediate impact on the bottom line. But there are some projects that...

04 Feb 2009
Financial Supply Chain
Paul Penrose

'Tone deaf' Wells Fargo beats retreat

Whatever were they thinking of? Wells Fargo, a recipient of $25 billion of taxpayer bail-out money, has been forced to cancel a lavish all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas for up to 40 employees after ...

04 Feb 2009
Robert Siciliano

Identity Theft Expert; Data breaches get more costly

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Excellent article by Jaikumar Vijayan here; Data breaches continue to get more costly for businesses Ponemon Institute LLC is all the b...

04 Feb 2009
A Finextra Member

Could there be a real rival to SWIFT?

Finding a SWIFT alternative always comes up in any discussion about messaging standards and the direction the finance industry is going. Most professional people in the know agree that SWIFT is a doub...

04 Feb 2009
SEPA and European Payments
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RBS WorldPay ATM heist nets 9 million in 30 min

"An attorney in Atlanta has filed a class-action lawsuit against RBS WorldPay for allegedly failing to protect personal information." This problem can be eliminated altogether by allowing ca...

04 Feb 2009
Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

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