989 Results from 2010
Atso Andersen Head of Corporate Relations at Aalto University
Compare share turnover ratios of Nasdaq US and NasdaqOMX Nordic exchanges: 1040% vs. 140% in October 2009 (see figure here). Trading is seven times more active in the Nasdaq US. Spring 2010 will bring the same technology to Nordic exchanges where the same large international players are already present. Shall we see some heavy trading in previousl...
05 January 2010
Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants
As a TODO in your 2010 new resolutions, you might want to take control over your internet public image. But the process of "unfriending" a lot of people and/or deleting accounts seems to be a big hurdle? The solution has just arrived http://suicidemachine.org/ They do the job for you! The remove EVERYTHING related to you over the socia...
05 January 2010 /security Online Banking
Retired Member
I recently had the misfortune to receive a chip and pin card reader to use with my Smile account and in a stroke the entire banking experience has been ruined. It's fiddly to use and generally annoying - particularly when I log in at work and don't have it with me. What I find baffling is that I have to use it whenever I make a bill payment. Now I ...
04 January 2010
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
At the start of a new decade there still seems to be confusion between these two terms with many people using them interchangeably - so here’s the distinction set out plainly: Voice recognition, also known as speech recognition, converts spoken words or phrases to text which is then processed by a computer to recognise what is being said. Unfortuna...
04 January 2010 /security /payments Innovation in Financial Services
It seems wrong to start the New Year on a sour note, but as we approach the two-year anniversary of the SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) go-live, it’s hard to find a silver lining to this particular cloud. The latest figures from August 2009 show that the share of SCT in the inter-bank domain as a percentage of total volume of credit transfers has hit 4....
04 January 2010 /wholesale
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Jay McDonald from Creditcards.com does a great job of summarizing Identity Theft Predictions for 2010. “Like wolves to injured prey, identity thieves are out to turn the recession struggles of average Americans to their own advantage. “In my adult life, I’ve never seen more varations of old scams and the degree of sophistication in newer scams,” ...
04 January 2010 /security /regulation
The last decade we have seen technological breakthroughs unlike any other. In response we have seen a tremendous rise in fraud. The reason? The speed of the conveniences technology have far outpaced the security of technology. PC World puts out their list: Cyberwar: In February 2000, a Canadian teenager named Mafiaboy used automated floods of inc...
02 January 2010 /security /regulation
In a recent article in Computer World, Tom Patterson CSO of Magtek, with his Glamor Shot photo, provides “5 counter-fraud tips you’ve never been told”. Anything a consumer can do to reduce their risk for account takeover, they should exercise. While in most cases the consumer isn’t responsible for the losses, as long as you refute the fraud in a ...
Michael Fuller Former Retail Banker at None
Citi Cards UK today admitted to me that they had failed to collect direct debits on a number of customer credit card accounts the result of which was that a £12 late payment fee has been applied. Fortunately I noticed the fee when checking my account on-line and was able to contact Citi straight away to get them to put it right. The Direct Debit sh...
01 January 2010
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