He has on a black pin-striped suit, a blue hand-woven tie, and a Rolex watch, like my own.

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Hornby is planning a range of collectable Moshi Monsters pin badges, and has also launched a Star Wars-based Scalextric range, a number of James Bond-related products and a series of mini collectable vehicles.

BBC: Hornby is pinning its hopes on Moshi Monsters pin badges

Payments firm Paypal has launched a chip-and-pin machine designed to offer new sales methods to UK small businesses that have previously relied on cash or cheques.

BBC: Paypal launches chip-and-pin device

The long-term results are not very impressive: Over the two full market cycles Pin Oak has averaged a compound annual return of -6%, putting it 8 points behind the 500 index.

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He has played the entire season with a three-inch pin in his ankle after he was seriously injured against Bath in May 2008 and has delayed having an operation to remove it in order to be available for England and the Lions, should he be required.

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Muzzled for weeks by U.S. securities regulations that have prohibited him from speaking publicly about the future of his company, James Murdoch has been hard to pin down for a formal interview.

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It seems that Visa is not too keen on the "chip 'n' signature" security that iZettle uses, even though the Swedish company says it has a lower fraud rate than for chip and pin transactions.

BBC: iZettle and the modernisation of money

It took us months to pin him down for an interview and he already has a reputation for dodging the media.

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"One argument for keeping Pin is that he has the brains and the contacts, " says a businessman.

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The willingness of investors to pin their hopes on a rate cut is understandable: after all, that has been the response of the Fed to every financial panic since the stockmarket crash of 1987.

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