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Cloud Computing is a mess

It seems that I’ve been locked in debates over the past couple of weeks about two themes and two subjects only Cloud Computing and Innovation. Cloud Computing is a topic I’ll pick on today and then maybe talk a little more about Innovation tomorrow. So what’s the problem with Cloud Computing? It’s rubbish is the…

Cloud Computing is a mess

It seems that I’ve been locked in debates over the past couple of weeks about two themes and two subjects only Cloud Computing and Innovation. Cloud Computing is a topic I’ll pick on today and then maybe talk a little more about Innovation tomorrow. So what’s the problem with Cloud Computing? It’s rubbish is the…

Can’t take my eyes off of you

For a long, long, long, long, long, long time, I’ve talked about biometrics taking off in banking … and it hasn’t. The biometrics market has picked up and tailed off in fits and starts, but there is no real mainstream biometric program out there that I’ve spotted to date. The nearest I got was some…

Can’t take my eyes off of you

For a long, long, long, long, long, long time, I’ve talked about biometrics taking off in banking … and it hasn’t. The biometrics market has picked up and tailed off in fits and starts, but there is no real mainstream biometric program out there that I’ve spotted to date. The nearest I got was some…

Why governments are failing to regulate the internet

As mentioned, am in Abu Dhabi this week and will write more about the conference content during the course of the week but, today, am struggling a little bit as my blog is banned here. It’s the first country I’ve been to in my travels – and I’ve travelled lots – where I cannot actually…

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New Media versus The Law

I’ve written about the end of privacy before, but now the big news in the UK is that privacy is a joke. There is no such thing. For example, we had a court of law here that could implement superinjunctions to stop the media leaking information about people’s private lives. Major stars of media, sport…

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You can never believe what you think

For years, marketing and market research firms have talked about demographics, using job, age and location as a way of targeting customers. We talk about ACORN and MOSAIC, two classification systems for targeting consumers with offers. MOSAIC is used by Experian to classify UK households, with the current version structuring the 61,838, 154 individuals in the UK…

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Secret service and trading: both find needles in haystacks

I was at TradeTech the other day, one of the largest conferences and exhibitions focused upon buy and sell side technologies. It had a good attendance and agenda, although I did wonder why it was sponsored by Virgin Money. As I walked into the London Excel Centre, where this year’s TradeTech was held (next year…

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Cloud Computing in Banking, the Big Debate

Gartner estimate cloud computing will grow from a market worth $36 billion in 2009 to over $160 billion by 2015, with around a fifth of all firms relying on the cloud for significant parts of their technology operations by 2012. A recent FS Club debate on the current state of cloud computing for the financial…

Why banks should worry about Google, Apple, Facebook …

I've talked for a while about: money being meaningless, as data is now key; the battle over information, and how information warfare is the new game; the fact that banks should move from being safekeepers of money to being safekeepers of data; and so on and so forth. So when I read Venessa Miemis's article…

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