FT.com / Capital markets – Libor calculation to remain unchanged

tags: libor, BBA

• “Now that there is less reason to think the BBA will tinker with how Libor is set, the market will focus on the underlying issue: why are unsecured rates so high compared with the Fed funds rate,” said Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson Icap.

Vendor relationship management: CRM threat or opportunity? – 26 May 2008

tags: vrm, crm

• Therefore, VRM compliant email services will provide the individual with control over their inbox including ‘invitations’ for specific products or services with the facility to use multiple temporary, anonymous email addresses which can be discontinued when an appropriate supplier is identified.

Housing bailout bill creates national fingerprint registry | The Iconoclast – politics, law, and technology – CNET News.com

tags: iconoclast, bailout, security, credit_crisis

• The feds’ new fingerprint database would function like this: Any “loan originator” must furnish “fingerprints for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation” and a wealth of other unnamed government agencies.