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CIO April 1, 2004 Alice Dragoon	Banks Fight Customer Fligtht Following mergers, banks used to sacrifice customer service in favor of speedy integration and cost-cutting. But no more. Here's how CIOs are helping banks implement a new postmerger mandate to focus on customer service.
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Bank Technology News December 2003 John Adams	BofA's Fleet Of Headaches Bank of America bit off a mouthful when it bought FleetBoston, and the digestion promises to be long, fraught with all the trials and tribulations emerge in the wake of such consumption.
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CIO August 15, 2002 Todd Datz	Strategic Alignment Your business processes can't enable superior customer service or an efficient supply chain without integrated systems. The four companies profiled here demonstrate the benefits of a strategic perspective and long-term commitment to integration.
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Bank Technology News November 2003 Jeremy Quittner	Finding Equals in a Merger Jean Davis's responsibility is to integrate all of Wachovia's systems, technologies and operations since its 2001 merger with First Union. It wasn't a cake walk, but the new entity is beginning to hum.
Salon.com November 21, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	The Homeland Security merger mess A Harvard analyst says government consolidation won't improve the fight against terrorism quickly, and maybe not at all. The reason: Most big corporate mergers fail.
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CFO July 15, 2008 Avital Louria Hahn	Worlds Apart To foster successful cross-border mergers, try cultural due diligence.
U.S. Banker April 2009 Joseph Rosta	M&A Wants Uncle Sam With economic conditions deteriorating rapidly, particularly in pockets of the west and southeast, M&A experts say marriages arranged by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and other regulators will again drive activity in 2009.
CFO February 1, 2011 Randy Myers	Integration Acceleration Why successful M&A now depends on getting your ducks in a row as early as possible.
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Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Growing Through a Major Merger Wachovia CIO Martyn Greene faces integration challenges with the firm's Prudential merger.
Bank Systems & Technology November 30, 2003 Katherine Burger	Damning with Faint Praise The winner of last month's "Now you tell me!" award was Charles Prince, Citigroup's recently named CEO, who stated in a presentation about the institution's global corporate and investment bank, "The era of the transformational merger is over."
CIO June 1, 2002 Lafe Low	Don't Forget the People To smooth the way and simplify the merger process, effective change management leadership needs to focus on basic human principles. The cooperation and participation of those most deeply affected by change can make or break the effort
HBS Working Knowledge March 27, 2006 Adolph, Elrod & Neely	Nine Steps to Prevent Merger Failure Understanding execution risks is a critical first step toward a successful merger: Sin number one: no guiding principles... Sin number two: no ground rules... Sin number three: not sweating the details... etc.
CFO September 1, 2005 Russ Banham	It's Not You, It's Your Technology Once an afterthought in M&A, a target's IT systems may be a potential deal-breaker.
Insurance & Technology February 21, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	Getting to One Oftentimes, the difference between a successful merger and a dud is the ability to integrate systems and users from the two companies.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Drawing the Lines on System Integration Experts say that when integrating systems, most problems arise not in executing their plans, but rather in conceptualizing them.
Registered Rep. November 30, 2012 Diana Britton	Withering Wirehouses? Not Quite. Many industry propellerheads have forecasted an exodus of wirehouse advisors to the independent channel as retention bonuses unwind this year.
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CFO February 15, 2006 Rob Garver	Merge Right Numbers don't drive deals. People do. Companies routinely overlook human-capital issues during deal negotiations or during the early stages of integration.
Bank Systems & Technology May 22, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	The Success of Bank M&As Can Hinge on IT Talent Retention It is critical for banks to retain top tech performers during mergers -- and money alone just won't cut it anymore.
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