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U.S. Banker June 2007 Lee Conrad	Banks' Insurance Operations: Are Painful Lessons Paying Off? Banks clamored for years for the right to underwrite and sell insurance, but few have proven adept at it. There are signs of progress, however, as some banks embrace the brokerage side and gain revenue.
CFO March 1, 2007 Joseph McCafferty	Too Big to Succeed? Banking giants struggle to keep costs under control.
Bank Technology News September 2006	Performance Of Small Banks Tells Only Part of Their Story The performance of community banks is often an afterthought when talk of what makes the banking industry tick gets going.
CFO March 1, 2007 Randy Myers	Dividing the Spoils Most CFOs and treasurers recognize that when the credit cycle finally does turn, they may need the goodwill of a longtime banking partner to ensure access to capital under less-than-ideal conditions.
Bank Systems & Technology May 25, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Corporates' Wishes Are Banks' Commands Between industry consolidation and the entrance of new players in the market, banks have their work cut out for them when it comes to serving business customers and meeting their demands.
U.S. Banker May 2006 Conrad et al.	Power, Progress and Public Responsibility A look at the people, organizations and events of historical significance whose individual and collective influence helped banking evolve to what it is today.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006	Small Businesses Big Biz for Banks Capturing small businesses as banking customers will be a top priority for many banks this year, according to a new report.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006	All About Online Banking You may not need your bricks-and-mortar branch as much as you thought.
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2006 Katherine Burger	Debate Down Under The most-significant challenges facing the banking industry are the following: Consolidation of payments infrastructures; how banks [can] create new payments products; margin compression; and the threat of new entrants, which is driving innovation.
Bank Systems & Technology August 1, 2007 Nancy Feig	Banking Customers More and More Mistrustful of Financial Institutions It's not just security breaches that are causing consumers to lose faith in their financial institutions. Consumers in general are more demanding, and this attitude spills over into the relationships they have with their banks.
Bank Systems & Technology February 22, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Spillenkothen Joins Deloitte's Banking Regulatory Practice The former Fed regulator hopes to help banks gain an enterprise-wide view of compliance in his new role.
U.S. Banker March 2007 Lee Conrad	Best of the Best: Banking's Top 100 The banking industry had a tough gig last year. For proof, take a look at the falling trend in annual return-on-equity figures. Here are the top 100: TCF Financial Corp... Bank of Hawaii Corp... U.S. Bancorp... etc.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Foolish Forecast: Well-Protected Wachovia The banking giant is set to report its first-quarter 2007 financial results shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
CFO March 1, 2004 Kris Frieswick	The Two Faces of Bank Mergers Despite all the talk about the "seamlessness" of the mergers being planned in the nation's fast-consolidating banking industry, CFOs of bank customers aren't all that convinced. And their concerns are both financial and personal: Will the merger of their bank hurt their access to capital, they ask? And how will their relationship with bank officers change?
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 Michael Leibert	JPMorgan Outshines Its Rivals JPMorgan Chase first-quarter results were supported by strong performance from some of the bank's riskier operations. Investors, take note.
Bank Technology News September 2001 David Rountree	IT Spending Today: Slowing but Growing Strategic consulting and research firm Datamonitor PLC believes most of the world's major financial services institutions will resist the urge to actually cut technology spending next year, although a slowdown in the rate of spending growth already is evident...
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Bank Technology News June 2007 Glen Fest	Online Banking: Mellon Plots Its Merger of Wealth Services As the lines blur between the needs of institutional investors and individual high-net-worth portfolios, so do the retail and commercial distinctions for Pittsburgh-based Mellon Financial.
U.S. Banker November 2007 Lee Conrad	In Pay Raises, Small Banks Outpace the Broader Industry According to America's Community Bankers' annual compensation survey, chief information officers/chief technology officers saw an 11.2 percent increase in their base salaries at community banks between 2006 and 2007.
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Bank Technology News March 2007 Glen Fest	Business Banking: Small Banks Beefing Up Commercial Capabilities Four in five community institutions say they will increase tech spending on capabilities such as cash management and imaging to attract corporate banking customers.
U.S. Banker April 2002	Tougher On The Big Boys Being bigger is not necessarily better for corporations seeking loans from their banks. A study by the Association for Financial Professionals indicates that banks are putting heavy pressure on their biggest borrowers to throw more business the banks' way. Or else: No credit...
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Bank Systems & Technology September 28, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Transaction Processing Not Enough to Succeed In Commercial Banking Banks will need to move away from the transaction processing model to become the advisers of choice for their corporates.
BusinessWeek October 31, 2005 Assif Shameen	Jakarta Puts Its Banks On The Block Banking sector privatization could bring a much-needed $4 billion into the government's coffers.
Bank Systems & Technology November 21, 2007 Jim Eckenrode	Taking Its Lumps and Moving On Despite the subprime meltdown banks will continue to invest in certain IT areas, including front-end customer management systems, new-account opening processes, mobile banking and payments, and, of course, compliance.
U.S. Banker September 2001 Mark Bruno	Leave Automation to Automators It's no secret the current check processing procedure is cumbersome. But before banks can make the leap from paper to digital checks, an archive is necessary to store check images and information...
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InternetNews December 21, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	A 'Building Year' For Mobile Banking Research firm Celent looks ahead to the coming year in banking technology.
Bank Technology News February 2001 Orla O'Sullivan	Corillian Stages Showdown With S1 Was it artful staging above all? Certainly Corillian Corp. couldn't resist the publicity opportunity that is RDS to announce that Wachovia Corp. was switching to it from S1 Corp. -- although the decision to switch was made more than a year ago...
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Bank Technology News April 2007 Glen Fest	Internet Banking: Luring the Laggards Will Require Enhancements Banks need added functionality to interest the millions of households yet to enroll in Web banking. Vendors are adapting their wares accordingly.
Bank Systems & Technology January 30, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	City National Bank Appoints Rodney Banks VP of Commercial Banking Services Rodney Banks, new executive VP and manager of commercial banking services at Los Angeles-based City National Bank, says customer relationship management solutions are more vital now than ever before.
U.S. Banker March 2002 John Hackett	Wealth Management Leaders With profit-generating assets shrinking because of the decline in stock prices, some of the biggest players in the wealth management field are hurting. But all assert the future is rosy, at least for them. Many have doubts, however, about the outlook for other players...
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Bank Systems & Technology February 21, 2008 Jim Eckenrode	Exclusive TowerGroup Research Report: Bank Tech Spending in 2008 In light of the current market turmoil, North American banks appear to be approaching technology planning and budgeting for 2008 with caution.
Bank Technology News November 2005 Michael Sisk	Wholesale Banking: Tough Times Call for Convergence Cutthroat competition in wholesale banking to offer commoditized services is squeezing revenues, requiring new approaches that move far beyond the stock strategic realignments of the past
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