Maria Trombly is a talented writer and a thorough reporter with a strong sense for news who delivers on her commitments on deadline. She has an excellent reputation among Wall Street and technology executives and can be counted on to… Read the rest

Maria’s a quick, accurate and innovative reporter whose stories manage to be newsy, useful AND interesting — a rare combination.

Without the Trombly Ltd. reporters, I could not operate. They give me a local presence in markets around the globe, and are always willing to seek out new local sources. When mistakes are made–and every reporter makes mistakes from time… Read the rest

South Koreans’ credit card spending overseas reached a new high in this year’s second quarter, the Bank of Korea reports.

State Bank of India Ltd. plans to deploy 50 solar-powered ATMs in the state of West Bengal in India to promote the use of alternative energy sources, an official from the Mumbai-based bank tells PaymentsSource.

India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. announced on Aug. 30 the launch of a credit card designed for the Non-Resident Indian segment, which includes Indian citizens who have migrated to another country, are of Indian origin but born outside India, or… Read the rest

POSBank has launched a payment card that incorporates both debit and credit card functions, according to the Singapore-based bank.

Changes to revenue recognition rules may be beneficial but will lead to accounting headaches that new software can relieve.

Last September, regulators issued new revenue recognition rules that allow companies to book product and service sales separately—a boost for the… Read the rest

Educators in post-secondary institutions, colleges and schools looking for lower costs, better controls and no age restrictions might consider switching from Second Life to its open source alternative, the OpenSim virtual world server platform.

The OpenSim server software… Read the rest

All equities traded on the Nasdaq Dubai exchange will move over to a new platform starting on June 27, the company said Friday.

The move, it said, is a result of the exchange’s acquisition by the Dubai Financial Market.

DFM… Read the rest

Securing corporate IT systems is crucial, but there are ways to make that effort more productive and less costly.

Companies have spent years beefing up their information technology governance, risk and compliance systems.  With cutting costs now top of mind… Read the rest

Virtual events platform provider On24 has rolled out a suite of social networking tools this week, including integration with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

“We have a standard Twitter widget that can be embedded in a virtual event,” said Denise… Read the rest

Goldman Sachs, UBS and Société Générale all have been involved in the last year in high-profile cases involving alleged thefts of computer code used in their algorithmic trading strategies for their clients and their own objectives.

The lesson: Even the… Read the rest