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  • Clive Stainton

    Unintended consequences

    17 May 2012: At the recent annual Mortgage Strategy Summit I addressed an audience of over 60 industry experts discussing the potential ramifications of CRD IV on the EU mortgage market. I am a born optimist so it was with regret I had to deliver some sobering news about the costs of mortgages going forward.

  • David Holcombe

    Pensioners will be facing a cold winter because of the financial transactions tax

    2 May 2012: It's crazy to think that a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) will provide the revenue to solve the world's ills and that it will be a cost borne only by banks, High Frequency Traders, or speculative traders alone.

  • Rule Financial Mobile team

    Smartphone wars in the City

    1 Mar 2012: Senior developer Steve Psaltis' followup blog on the enterprise tablet war and the release of RIM's Blackberry Playbook OS 2.O.

  • Steve Psaltis

    Banking on the Blackberry Playbook OS 2.0

    21 Feb 2012: Senior developer Steve Psaltis opines on how the growing adoption of iPads by financial services companies has unnerved RIM, the makers of Blackberry smartphones and traditionally the sector’s choice for mobile communications devices.

  • Simon Romp

    Another one slips through the DLP net...

    23 Jan 2012: New York Fed contractor charged with stealing Treasury code – this story is yet another example of how organisations are failing to address the risk that ‘trusted insiders’ – in this case a contractor – can pose.