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Bank Systems & Technology December 21, 2007 Katherine Burger |
Emerging Global Players Have the Resources To Transform the Banking Technology Business The rise of four emerging power brokers is having a very real impact on the financial services industry, on both the business and technology-related sides. |
Insurance & Technology December 8, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurance Technology Outlook 2009: Sudden Change Though the financial services industry has seen a precipitous change in the business environment and will adopt austerity measures, insurers are likely to be opportunistic in their technology investments. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 Christopher C. L. Anderson |
Sovereign Wealth: It Could be Good for You Concern over the so-called sovereign wealth funds' recent investments in big global companies and U.S. banks are overblown. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2007 Emil Lee |
Citi's 11% Isn't So Bad The cost of Citigroup's recent cash infusion from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is not as high as it appears. |
Bank Systems & Technology December 15, 2007 Nancy Feig |
Mortgage Losses Lead to Bank Layoffs Several banks are planning massive layoffs in the wake of the mortgage crisis, and technology professionals in the lending arena probably will not be spared. |
U.S. Banker January 2008 Michael Sisk |
Keeping The Spigot Open The fact is not lost on banks that American consumers are, by and large, still employed and paying their bills. Credit is, and will be, still available. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Avital Louria Hahn |
Missing Pieces How poor risk-management techniques contributed to the subprime mess. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 12, 2007 Nicolas P. Retsinas |
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure A look at what went wrong in the subprime industry and why. |
Financial Advisor April 2008 Eric Uhlfelder |
Bank Shares Near Bargain Levels It wasn't all that long ago that bank stocks rocked. However, by the beginning of 2008, banking shares had collapsed. Is it time to start buying them again? |
Bank Systems & Technology November 11, 2007 Feig & Bruno-Britz |
Shaping the Future From management shakeups at some of the top financial institutions to fallout from the mortgage crisis, big changes are in store for the banking industry in 2008. |
U.S. Banker March 2008 John Engen |
The Politics of Lending Sen. John McCain took time to present his vision of a world with simplified mortgage applications, and even suggested that the government might need to jump in to help mitigate the worsening crisis. |
Insurance & Technology June 23, 2010 Nathan Golia |
Reports Find P&C Industry on Solid Financial Footing Profitability returns and reserves are well-stocked, but potential snags could still come, organizations say. |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Soros and Congress' Smokescreen Hedge funds aren't the culprits in this crisis. The only losses hedge funds have sustained will be borne by their investors -- all qualified individuals and institutions. |
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. |
U.S. Banker May 2007 Thomas P. Vartanian |
Crisis and Opportunity In Subprime Mortgage Markets Problems in the subprime mortgage business will inevitably lead to opportunities for those who can evaluate, service or manage the underlying loans, securities and real estate. |
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2008 Allen Kenney |
Sovereign Wealth Rising As rising foreign economic powers such as China and Russia established their own sovereign wealth funds, U.S. policy-makers and pundits are devoting more time and attention to questions regarding their proper regulation. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Poor, Poor Citigroup Who loves the beleaguered bank? Only Uncle Sam. |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Subprime Numbers in Perspective It's time to stop and appreciate the enormity of the numbers that we encounter every day. How massive is our economy? How huge is the subprime crisis? |
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Christopher Barker |
When Will the Bleeding Stop? As Goldman Sachs' projected losses illustrate, the credit crisis tally is still growing. |
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Mara Der Hovanesian |
End Of The Big Bank Bonanza These have been flush times for U.S. banks. Yet the end of Easy Street may be near. |
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Jack Ewing |
European Banks' Last Laugh (Extended) European lenders tend to keep the risk in-house, so they're more careful about who borrows. Home buyers take on a lot less debt. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Randall Dodd |
Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt. |
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Goldstein |
Who Will Get Shredded? As the subprime business tanks, the pain is spreading to a wide swath of investors. |
Investment Advisor January 2008 Jeff Joseph |
The Year in Hedge Funds In a year marked by high volatility in the financial markets, the 10 strategies tracked by the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index outperformed major global equity indexes and experienced lower volatility than the overall markets. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2008 Emil Lee |
Stay Rational in the Downturn It's been a bloodbath in the markets as lately, with investors, banks, and investment banks all trying to stay afloat in a sea of red ink. Here are some points to remember before you panic. |
Financial Advisor March 2008 Steven Holt Abernathy |
Overcoming The Leverage Fallout If the war escalates, a couple of big hedge funds or banks implode, or if the Street banker/brokers finally come clean and tell us the scope of what is floating around out there in Level 3 exposure, we could see the abandonment of the dollar and a challenge to the existing financial system. |
U.S. Banker April 2008 |
The Many Cozy Relationships Of Bond Insurers Some do not view the multi-billion-dollar bank bailout for insurers as a path to recovery but as further enabling of damaging, co-dependent behavior among banks, rating agencies and bond insurers. |
Insurance & Technology November 10, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
In the Crisis's Wake, the Financial Services Industries Assess the Damage and Look to the Future Looking forward, financial services IT organizations will bear much of the burden of restructuring and implementing new, more-effective governance and risk assessment processes. |
Insurance & Technology January 10, 2008 Katherine Burger |
What Could Prevent the Property/Casualty Industry from Continuing Its Strong Performance? Here is why the property/casualty insurance industry's current underwriting prowess might not be long-lasting. |
CFO October 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Jack Ewing |
The New Financial Heavyweights Sovereign funds totaling $2.8 trillion from China, the Mideast, and elsewhere are redrawing the global investment map. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 26, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Lands of Opportunity The international opportunities for U.S. banks with the right IT and know-how can be huge, provided they follow the appropriate strategy. |
Investment Advisor November 2007 J. Joseph & J. Bunge |
Hedge Funds Recover Quicker A report from Credit Suisse Index Co. shows that after market-shaking events, such as the recent subprime turmoil, hedge funds remain less volatile and better able to perform than other asset classes. |
Financial Advisor July 2007 Eric L. Reiner |
Housing Sings The Blues Real estate woes bring both worry and opportunity to the financial sector. |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Citigroup: The Master of Low Expectations Everything except an asteroid hitting Earth appears to be baked into the stock price this quarter. |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Incredible Shrinking Citigroup Citigroup's CEO wants to put the company on a $400 billion diet. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Blackstone's Bankless Future What a difference a year has made in the private equity business. |
Insurance & Technology March 6, 2008 Catherine Stagg-Macey |
International Insurance IT Executives Continue To Invest, Priorities Vary International insurance IT executives in EUrope, Asia and Latin America will continue to invest in technology in 2008, but their spending priorities reflect unique challenges of their local markets. |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Roben Farzad et al. |
Not So Smart In an era of easy money, financial institutions forgot that the party can't last forever. |
Bank Technology News January 2008 Glen Fest |
Risk Without Reward The subprime mess has exposed how fragile banks are today to market pressures, and how much can fall on the shoulders of risk officers. Finding a path forward from the ashes will require stronger leadership overseeing risk. |
U.S. Banker February 2008 Glen Fest |
Risk Without Reward Finding a path forward from the ashes of the subprime mess will require stronger leadership overseeing risk, a culture more respectful of interdependent risks and new technologies measuring them across the enterprise. |
Insurance & Technology September 12, 2007 Katherine Burger |
Insurers Will Feel Pain From the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Fallout Will a crop of risk management and analytical solutions help insurers cope with the sub-prime mortgage crisis? |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Banks Binge on Equity Many of the financial sector's embattled souls ended the last half of 2007 scrambling to raise equity. But while the newfound cash is a welcome gift that is keeping banks heads' above water, don't get too comfortable with the benefits that come from issuing new equity. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer |
Are These Numbers Real? Citigroup's fourth-quarter writedowns are expected to be staggering. |
BusinessWeek June 10, 2009 Maria Bartiromo |
Vikram Pandit of Citi: Man on a Tightrope Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit discusses the pressure from Washington, repaying TARP money, and downsizing the behemoth Sandy Weill built. |
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. |
Financial Advisor September 2007 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note The subprime fiasco may turn out to be a small footnote in which asset-rich hedge funds, in their quest for outsized returns, allowed lower- and middle-income folks with poor credit to spend a few years in houses that were beyond their means. Or, is it the beginning of the Big One? |
Registered Rep. August 26, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Hedge Funds Now Going for Institutional Money Instead of HNW Individuals While hedge funds once catered primarily to wealthy individuals, now the main clients are pensions and institutions. That shift is forcing hedge funds to change the way they operate. |
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Michael Mandel |
This Is A Correction, Not A Meltdown Unless the damage spreads, let's not overreact to subprime's travails. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 17, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
Another Mass Layoff at Citi: 52,000 Jobs New York-based Citi revealed that it had lost $308 billion in assets in the twelve months since Sept. 2007. |