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Bank Technology News November 2008 |
Crisis Woes Mean Less Focus on Innovation. Bad Timing. A trend that started last year continues in 2008 and, with the 2009 economic environment expected to be far worse, many financial companies will make sizable cuts in technology, and IT priorities will be shuffled or put on hold. |
U.S. Banker November 2008 Michael Sisk |
Too Big to Fail? Institutions can be too big to fail. Not only that, the failure of even small institutions can have unforeseen and damaging ripple effects in markets. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2011 Gretchen Wilmoth |
Investing in Smaller Banking What affects will new regulations have on smaller banks? |
Bank Systems & Technology February 1, 2007 Jamie Geschke |
A Delicate Balance Innovation and differentiation will be required for U.S. financial institutions to compete with new entrants, non-traditional providers and global competitors. |
Bank Technology News June 2003 Holly Sraeel |
Difficult Times Call For Truly Creative Measures Times may be tough and expectations a bit unrealistic, but technology is as crucial as ever. Expect the savvier of firms to prove their mettle. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2009 Morgan Housel |
How Bad Are These Bank Failures? Let's take a look at the coming wave of bank failures compared to other banking meltdowns. |
Bank Technology News August 2009 John Adams |
The Age of Enterprise Risk Management Deloitte's sixth annual Global Risk Survey demonstrates the expanding role of the chief risk officer, but it also reveals there's still lots of room for growth when it comes to enterprise-wide risk assessment programs. |
Bank Technology News June 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
The Innovation Illusion Most bank executives know they're spending some money on innovation, but understand that the industry as a whole hasn't pushed the envelope in terms of R&D in recent years. |
Bank Systems & Technology January 8, 2009 Christine Barry |
Banks Must Take Advantage of Opportunities Where They Find Them Lenders and borrowers have felt the effects as the subprime crisis has evolved into a credit crisis. The result has been strategy changes for many banks, and a greater emphasis than ever before on growing deposits. |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2011 Matt Cropp |
In Pictures: Banks vs. Credit Unions in the Financial Crisis Credit union advocates argue that their financial institutions rode out the financial crisis better than commercial banks. Are their claims backed up by the numbers? |
Insurance & Technology April 28, 2008 Katherine Burger |
I&T's 2008 Tech-Savvy CEOs Know How to Leverage IT to Flourish in Tough Economic Times According to a new survey, financial services CEOs are generally pessimistic about the prospects for the U.S. economy overall and for financial institutions in particular. |
Bank Systems & Technology January 8, 2009 Jeanne Capachin |
Institutions With Capital May Find Vendors in the Mood to Deal For institutions that remain well-capitalized, the best advice is to move full steam ahead. If the need is real and solutions are available, this will be the best time to move ahead with a strategic investment. |
U.S. Banker June 2010 Robert Bliss |
It's the Interconnectedness, Stupid The IMF s reform ideas contained in its Global Financial Stability report evaluate the complexities of international risk that U.S. regulatory proposals ignore. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Roumeen Islam |
Institutions to Support Markets To spur growth and reduce poverty, poor countries will need efficient formal and informal institutions that support market activity. A major World Bank study offers insights into how such institutions may be developed... |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Sean Ryan |
The Wrong Way to End "Too Big to Fail" The case against Glass-Steagall 2.0. Enshrine in law that henceforth, shareholders and creditors are on their own. No more privatized gains and socialized losses. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 20, 2008 Parker & Pitchenik |
Banks Must Aggregate Risk Management Efforts Now banks and investment houses have no choice but to raise their ability to capture, analyze and act on risk information across the organization. |
Bank Technology News October 2008 Glen Fest |
Despite Tons of Talk Banks Don't Upgrade Analysts and experts each year proclaim that large U.S. institutions' renewal and replacement needs are growing critical, so expect new mega-deal opportunities to explode. But year after year, the fireworks never come. |
Bank Technology News August 2003 Holly Sraeel |
Luckily, Necessity Is the Mother of Invention The objective of technology strategy today is to achieve excellence in areas key to mitigating operational and reputational risk -- notably compliance and security. |
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2008 Cory Levine |
Gartner Offers Financial Institutions Tips to Broaden Client Relationships By helping customers better manage their finances with access to external data, financial institutions can broaden their customer relationships and meet some of their own short-term cost and revenue challenges. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 1, 2012 |
Should CEOs Worry About 'Too Big to Succeed?' Governments are preoccupied with the question of financial institutions becoming too big to fail. Should CEOs should ask a different question: Can companies become too big to succeed? |
Bank Technology News March 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
Community Banks Make Lemonade 2009 was not the year that most community banks undertook groundbreaking technology projects. Rather, projects that focused on increasing efficiency or wresting cost savings out of existing technologies and contracts found themselves at the top of most CIOs' to-do list. |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2009 Jeffrey E. Garten |
The Case for a Global Central Bank With world finance increasingly intertwined, we'll need one sooner or later. |
Bank Technology News June 2010 Adams et al. |
Remaking the Industry These innovative banks represent the kind of risk taking and forward-thinking products and services the American financial services industry needs to leapfrog out of the financial crisis and bring the next level of value to customers. |
Bank Technology News December 2009 John Adams et al. |
Innovation's Next Act Here's what you need to know about innovation in retail banking these days: It's mostly about payments and safety, and the hits that banks have taken during the last two years have left many working quietly on incremental advances while the leaps and bounds are engineered outside the gates. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 13, 2009 Martha Lagace |
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm Leading in crisis requires a combination of skills and behaviors -- personal and professional -- that can be mastered, says HBS professor Bill George. in his book, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2008 Judith Schoolman |
5 Questions with Mark Zandi The co-founder and chief economist of Moody's Economy.com discusses the recent financial shocks. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Raghuram Rajan |
Crabs in a Bucket Why constituencies are as important as constitutions in battling economic underdevelopment. |
Bank Technology News May 2009 Rebecca Sausner |
Brian McGinley's Eating it Up Brian McGinley spent 10 years as a senior executive at Wachovia, and 20 years at Citi, with responsibilities that ranged from director of deposit, control and loss operations to director of risk management. |
Bank Technology News October 2008 Anthony Jabbour |
For Cost Cuts BPO and SaaS Still Deliver Banks are constantly looking for ways to dramatically reduce their IT costs; some banks have already launched programs targeted at cost reductions in the range of 50 percent. |
Bank Systems & Technology July 12, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Mobile Banking Usage Nearly Doubled in Past Year, IDC Says The good news: consumers and banks have made great progress in mobile banking adoption. The bad news: it's hard for banks to make money via mobile. |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Morgan Housel |
What "Too Big to Fail" Means They screw up. We pay. We want a system where bank failures wreak havoc on stakeholders of just that bank, and nothing else. |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s. |
Bank Technology News March 2003 Holly Sraeel |
AML Tech Can Spot Patterns, Detect Odd Behavior Anti-money laundering technology is arming institutions with better tools to fight what the electronic age has made an even more difficult task, particularly with the anonymity of financial clearing and settlement systems and the ability to execute transactions in real time. |
Bank Technology News February 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
Microsoft Taps 'New Normal' Consumers Managing director for banking and capital markets at Microsoft's Financial Services unit aim to connect home banking, provide surface technology in the branch, and develop better mobile banking. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Finding New Data The global crisis revealed vast gaps in international financial statistics that authorities are working to fill. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Thanks for Making Things Worse, Congress! Legislators continue to set the bar lower for financial reform. |
U.S. Banker March 2010 Joe Adler |
Get Ready for Rising Rates Near-zero interest rates won't last forever, and regulators are warning banks -- particularly those that added long-term assets using short-term funds -- to take steps to manage their risk. |
Bank Technology News June 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
U.S. Banks are Losing The Tech Creativity War American banks are behind the eight-ball when it comes to the innovation imperative. |
U.S. Banker May 2009 Michael Sisk |
The Repercussions of Reform After months of Congressional hearings, debates and some hysterics, only the broadest outlines of the new banking regulatory regime have emerged. |
InternetNews March 31, 2010 |
How the Net Will Overcome Lingering Obstacles Most but, by no means all, respondents to a recent survey peering into the digital landscape in 2020 look for marked change in the form of more openness and efficiency from businesses and government. |
Bank Technology News October 2008 |
What's Needed to Capture Full Range of Risk in the Market? There is significant room - and requirement - to improve current credit-assessment approaches. A group of CTOs and analysts to weigh in on the issue. |
Bank Technology News July 2009 John Adams |
The Other Systemic Threat to Banking Credit default swaps, core processing systems and ATM networks would all appear to be different animals in the financial zoo, but there may be some dangerous common ground. |
Bank Technology News October 2010 |
Ten Tech Co's to Watch Technology visionaries are teaming with bank counterparts to navigate, and create, the future of the industry. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Olivier Blanchard |
Cracks in the System The Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF discusses what he thinks is needed to repair the damaged global economy. |
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 November 24, 2003 |
Compliance Verisign VeriSign Inc. released a suite of security services to help financial institutions comply with burgeoning federal, state and industry regulations. |