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Posted by David Tebbutt on 9th June 2008.
A visit with FaceTime introduced me to the term ‘greynet’. Since it’s been knocking around for donkey’s years, I should have known about it. But I didn’t. And so, I figured, nor would you. (Skip this blog if you’re up to speed on the subject and protected from greynet attacks.)
A greynet is a network-enabled application [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 28th May 2008.
Smaller businesses and in particular the self-employed like me will be delighted with the confirmation that the new fast clearance of payments into the banking system is coming this week. From now on when you put a cheque into your bank or when someone pays you electronically it won’t take the regulation three days to [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 30th April 2008.
At least that’s what Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, seems to think according to today’s Times. More particularly he’s concerned that the top executives at said banks are using other people’s money to do it. So the bail-out the other week should be seen as an offer of breathing space and time [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 23rd April 2008.
In recent weeks, given the remit of covering business money, I’ve said quite a lot about the state of the economy. I’m going to give it a break this week; either confidence will return or it won’t (and I still believe a lot of the problem has been about either confidence or more likely overconfidence [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st April 2008.
If you have to buy or sell your goods or services in foreign currencies, you know what damage an exchange rate shift can do to you. Especially if there are long gaps between the deal, the delivery and the payment.
Large companies, those in the Footsie 350 say, have online trading systems and get favourable rates [...]
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