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The demand for low-latency market data transfer is rising among financial markets firms moving toward direct exchange data. This brochure discusses how IBM WebSphere® Front Office for Financial Markets can help you manage the explosion in data, meet client needs and maintain a competitive edge. | 11 Jun 2009 |
For financial services firms, every millisecond counts. To compete requires superior messaging infrastructures to manage the massive explosion of data. This brochure illustrates how the next generation of IBM WebSphere® MQ Low Latency Messaging can help by using algorithmic and model-driven trading and direct market access. | 15 May 2009 |
IBM has joined with Clear2Pay to deliver agile payment solutions that facilitate strategic advantage. Read this brochure to learn how IBM and Clear2Pay can help banks achieve secure, timely, streamlined payments processing through innovative technology. | 23 Mar 2009 |
DNA for your business. This April hundreds of banking and insurance professionals will tap into vFS3 2009 to experience ways to uncover the core fabric, the DNA of their business. | 18 Mar 2009 |
IBM risk management solutions cover a range of services, from risk strategy development, execution and management, to business intelligence, security and data management | 08 Jan 2009 |
IBM can deliver large-scale global projects that are sensitive in nature and function across multiple organizations. Our IT and infrastructure risk solutions include a range of capabilities throughout the operational risk management cycle. | 08 Jan 2009 |
IBM has an extensive track record in helping financial service firms manage the complex issues associated with financial crimes, fraud and information security. | 08 Jan 2009 |
IBM has substantial experience in assisting clients through major regulatory investigations, remediation activities and change programs. | 08 Jan 2009 |
The Bathwick Group interviewed 400 respondents from enterprise-scale companies across seven countries, on a range of issues around green IT. This paper examines the responses from 102 banking industry respondents, and the steps they were taking as they were starting to feel the impact of the worldwide financial crisis. | 01 Dec 2008 |
In today's trading environment, any delay can mean a missed opportunity. This paper discusses how Integration Systems (iSys) has achieved unprecedented performance for FIX translations in a simulation—handling more than 22,000 FIX translation requests per second on each core of an IBM POWER6 processor. | 07 Nov 2008 |
IBM spoke with 1,130 business and public sector leaders worldwide to understand their perspectives on strategic issues for the IBM Global CEO Study. In this paper, we examine more closely the key implications for CEOs in the financial markets industry. | 22 Oct 2008 |
A massive worldwide credit crisis. Rising regulatory pressures. Saturated domestic markets. The banking industry faces dramatic changes. In this 2008 Global CEO Study from IBM Global Business Services, executives from banks around the world weigh in on the characteristics that define the banking enterprise of the future. | 20 Oct 2008 |
Energy costs. Regulatory compliance. Consumer demands. These issues are driving financial services firms to evaluate their role in a green economy. This white paper outlines how firms can demonstrate true environmental leadership and describes how they can extend environmental policies across their business. | 08 Oct 2008 |
To compete, trade and execution venues must be secure, reliable and continuously available. This paper explains how IBM can help deliver the commercial benefits and agility that successful markets require, based on extreme low latency, extreme high performance and highly robust systems that avoid calamitous outages. | 30 Sep 2008 |
In the fast-paced financial marketplace, firms must process and analyze multitudes of data quickly and accurately. But this is challenging when data is received in a wide range of formats. IBM Stream Computing software can help firms rapidly analyze live streaming data from a practically unlimited number of sources. | 22 Sep 2008 |
Payments organizations must meet the needs of a growing global economy and comply with industry regulations and standards, while also increasing revenues and cutting costs. This brochure outlines how the IBM Payments Framework can help you transform your payments infrastructure to simplify your payments operations. | 12 Sep 2008 |
The payments hub concept is a hot topic in the banking industry today, offering the potential for lower processing costs, reduced fraud and better customer service. This white paper gives an overview of payments hubs, including a definition, hub solutions, sample approaches and more. | 11 Aug 2008 |
Financial institutions face rising fraudulent attacks on their payment systems and mounting regulatory pressures. Choosing the right technology partners to protect you and your customers from financial crime is crucial. IBM and ACI Worldwide have joined forces to help reduce the risk inherent in payment system migrations. | 07 Jul 2008 |
Financial institutions have turned to innovation and technology for advantage in today’s highly commoditized and competitive industry. In an interview with Steve Mills, SVP and group executive of IBM’s software business, we asked about IBM’s impact on the financial services industry. | 05 Jun 2008 |
Phillip Heasley, CEO & President of ACI Worldwide, discusses ACI's decision to base its next generation payment application portfolio on IBM middleware running on the IBM Mainframe, System z. He spoke about the impact of fast growth on an agent payment infrastructure. | 05 Jun 2008 |
Financial services organizations need to speed transactions with extremely low latency and very high throughput. To achieve this, they need to automate, integrate and optimize their messaging systems. This white paper addresses the messaging challenges they face and how WebSphere® MQ Low Latency Messaging can help. | 21 May 2008 |
Financial institutions face rising pressures—such as the need to reduce time-to-market for news products and services, the need to support growing transaction volumes and new mandates or the need to contain costs. This brochure describes how IBM and ACI are helping institutions transform their payments systems in response. | 02 May 2008 |
This paper explores why TowerGroup sees banks moving from the conceptualization of “enterprise payments” to implementation during 2008 and 2009. Their point of view is that leading banks will implement service-oriented architecture (SOA) models that combine expert processing capability and open, standards-based integration. | 29 Apr 2008 |
This white paper explores the risk management and compliance challenges facing banks today and highlights how IBM System z™ can help align IT with the business, increase business resiliency and enhance your security and privacy capabilities to lessen operational risk while improving compliance and efficiency. | 18 Apr 2008 |
In response to pressures on financial institutions, from rising electronic payment transaction volumes to an increasing need to protect data, IBM and ACI Worldwide have built some of the most sophisticated, comprehensive payment systems in use today. This brochure looks at our collaboration in the retail payment space. | 16 Apr 2008 |
Financial institutions face mounting competitive and regulatory pressures and are looking for ways to reduce risk, enhance ROI and improve time-to-market for new services. This brochure describes what IBM and ACI Worldwide, working together as a payments transformation team, offer in the wholesale payments space. | 16 Apr 2008 |
The financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 with a sharp devaluation of U.S. sub-prime mortgage assets has raised concerns about the effectiveness of financial firms’ risk management. | 04 Apr 2008 |
The payments industry is changing as competitive pressures, regulatory burdens and customer entitlements increase. This white paper explores how IBM innovative solutions and technology, and in particular IBM System z™, can help financial institutions succeed in the face of these increasingly difficult market conditions. | 27 Feb 2008 |
The key to standing out in a marketplace flooded with similar wealth management products is becoming a customer focused enterprises. This brochure explores how you can promote client advocacy throughout your organization and start building a compelling client experience. | 27 Feb 2008 |
Banks' perennial quest for growth can lead them astray—witness the recent sub-prime debacle in the U.S. Yet even against the backdrop of large write-downs, firms are continuing their search for significant, sustainable bottom-line improvement. | 26 Feb 2008 |
As business risk, customer and regulatory data converge in massive quantities to fulfill compliance mandates, many financial institutions are seeking ways to turn compliance cost into an investment, and use the same data to deliver greater business value. | 26 Feb 2008 |
To compete, many banks are shifting their focus from maintaining legacy technology to implementing more flexible systems to support core banking products and services. In this video David K. Zimmerman, an IBM Global Solutions Executive, discusses the business and IT implications of core systems transformation. | 08 Feb 2008 |
For banks, optimizing the customer experience can set one institution apart from the competition. This video—featuring John Armstrong, Partner, Customer Focus Strategy Practice, IBM—explores how technology can help banks more fully understand the customer's needs and deliver on their expectations. | 08 Feb 2008 |
Technology is changing the way people interact with banks. To satisfy a new generation of customers looking for online or mobile banking, banks need to offer more innovative products and services. This video features Boxley Llewellyn, the Director of Growth Initiatives at IBM, discussing how innovation can help banks grow. | 08 Feb 2008 |
Optimizing business processes can help banks increase efficiency, drive down costs and increase sales. In this video, IBM's Sunny Banerjea and Adam Lawrence discuss how technology can help reduce paper-based processes and extend best practices across the organization to help banks grow and maintain their customer base. | 08 Feb 2008 |
Risk management and regulatory compliance are inextricably linked, operate to exacting standards and are about to go through a period of significant change. Read this brochure to learn IBM's point of view on the five key areas of risk and compliance that financial services firms must address to meet marketplace challenges. | 14 Jan 2008 |
When it comes to the account-opening process, are you delivering a quality customer experience? Inefficient or duplicative processes can cost your business. Read this executive brief to see how an integrated, streamlined account-opening process can leave a lasting impression that will improve customer satisfaction. | 02 Jan 2008 |
To succeed, your firm must capture real-time data faster than the competition. Execute trades more efficiently and transparently. How do you do this if your data is derived from disparate sources and in multiple formats? Read this paper to learn how IBM and Voltaire can help you make sense of your data in a timely manner. | 17 Dec 2007 |
The world is changing, making business more complex and more risky. How do Finance organizations respond to this new environment? | 13 Dec 2007 |
Increased competition and commoditization in the banking industry means differentiation and innovation drive growth and performance. Technology must be embraced as a critical element of future success. This paper explores how the IBM System z™ mainframe platform supports a bank’s growth, resilience and efficiency goals. | 05 Dec 2007 |
Consolidation. Competition. Compliance. These are just a few challenges banks face—but the customer is still king. This brochure discusses how IBM Business Process Services can help improve retention and loyalty by optimizing customer acquisition and account setup, customer service and sales and customer account management. | 03 Dec 2007 |
The financial markets industry is shifting from trading by people to trading by machines. As a result, transaction speed can be the main differentiator. This paper—available in English and Japanese—explores how high performance computing solutions from IBM can enable high-velocity financial analytics and trading. | 20 Nov 2007 |
Spurred in part by the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative, Europe is moving steadily toward tighter convergence of its physical and financial supply chains. Yet, in a 2007 IBM Payments Convergence study, twenty leading European banks and corporations did not always see eye-to-eye on the topic. | 13 Nov 2007 |
In the financial arms race, to have the fastest market data, smartest trading algorithms and most sophisticated risk programs, financial markets firms invest billions of dollars annually in applications as part of a strategy aimed at giving their clients every advantage. | 13 Nov 2007 |
To help ease cost and revenue concerns, leading banks are looking to transform account opening activities at the enterprise level. Component business modeling allows banks to launch this transformation and substantially improve efficiency levels by fundamentally restructuring today's siloed organization. | 12 Nov 2007 |
As the trend toward electronic payments continues, processing is becoming more complex. This brochure discusses how IBM Payments Director provides banks with an efficient, scalable and flexible payment-processing platform to help integrate electronic and traditional payment methods. | 09 Nov 2007 |
Being responsible for an Exchange’s core business, its revenue, costs and the technology that supports it is a daunting challenge. This paper explores how IBM’s Exchange technology can help deliver the performance you need in good times and in bad; now and in the future. | 21 Aug 2007 |
While the banking industry waits for conclusive evidence of the current volume and rate of decline in the use of paper checks in the US system, we are compelled to take note of just how far we have come and what may propel us to the next level. | 01 Aug 2007 |
While speed and transparency are driving non-traditional sources of value in global financial markets, demand is spiking for new forms of money management – chief among them hedge fund and hedge fund ''lite'' products. | 01 Aug 2007 |
Financial markets firms have historically avoided the commoditization trap by innovating to create new products and services. The bulk of their impressive growth has typically come from mature markets. | 01 Aug 2007 |
Financial markets firms face growing pressure to on-board clients faster, while still complying with complex layers of regulation. This paper explores the benefits of holistic client data management to ensure compliance, improve operational efficiency and expand your client relationship management capabilities. | 29 Jun 2007 |
Join IBM’s Phil Enness and Doug Dworkin as they discuss the impact of latency on the bottom line with a group of industry experts from exchange and analyst firms and market data solution vendors in this Inside Market Data Special Report for SIFMA Tech, June 2007. | 29 Jun 2007 |
IBM Service Management can help address legislative (Sarbanes-Oxley) and regulatory compliance by providing a strategy for IT governance and compliance management as well as a broad range of hardware, software and consulting. | 25 Jun 2007 |
When reviewing competitive strategies, many financial markets firms are evaluating their capabilities for accessing dark liquidity sources. This paper explores many options they can consider to find and leverage dark liquidity while supporting changing requirements and complex trading strategies. | 25 Jun 2007 |
Learn how to benefit from the latest generation of hybrid computing, the IBM® BladeCenter® QS2X with powerful Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell /B.E.) engines to accelerate your business. | 14 Jun 2007 |
IBM Financial Markets Industry Models can create a foundation to help your entire company quickly respond to changing business demands while meeting regulatory requirements and enhancing the client experience. Read this paper to learn more about the benefits of IBM Financial Markets Industry Models. | 10 Jun 2007 |
The global over-the-counter derivatives market is growing rapidly, putting pressure on firms to improve efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance. This paper shows how IBM and Thunderhead can help by changing derivatives transactions from a linear, fragmented process to a more intelligent, collaborative one. | 08 Jun 2007 |
To compete, many financial markets firms are preparing to re-engineer, broaden and standardize their core enterprise-wide business processes. This brochure provides information about how the IBM Financial Markets Data Models can provide an overall analysis framework for enabling these strategic goals. | 07 Jun 2007 |
Derivative trading data volume and complexity has many firms turning to XML-based trading applications. This paper explores the unique traits of derivative trading applications, their impact on information management systems and how IBM DB2® database management technology can simplify and speed up your XML data processing. | 31 May 2007 |
For financial markets firms enjoying record earnings levels since 2004, the sun is shining and the skies are clear. However, today's profits could reverse as a raft of powerful market and socio-political forces intensify and reshape the financial markets industry. | 22 May 2007 |
Just like electricity, electronic payment capabilities are becoming commoditized. Customer demand, tighter government regulations and significant innovations in technology have brought banking institutions to the point where, in terms of availability, electronic payment applications are like a cup of coffee—you can get one anywhere. | 22 May 2007 |
Technology has made the trading process faster and more efficient, but banks and their clients often remain disconnected. This paper explores how Valuta-Direct, an automated online trading platform from IBM, can help you and your clients reconnect and react in near real time to market shifts, maximizing profitability. | 27 Apr 2007 |
Customer expectations, government regulations and technology innovations have inspired a new generation of real-time electronic payment applications in the banking industry. This paper explores some of the ways that banks can use an SOA approach to integrate the newer capabilities with their existing IT infrastructures. | 13 Apr 2007 |
Firms are finding that knowledge gained about risk for regulatory compliance can produce valuable insights about their organization. This white paper explores how, beyond auditing and reporting, a strategic approach to operational and IT risk management can bring high returns on investment in other ways as well. | 19 Mar 2007 |
To mark the launch of its WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets data platform, technology giant IBM held a panel discussion in conjunction with Inside Market Data on the subject of industry trends and drivers in low latency market data management. Learn more in this special report. | 02 Mar 2007 |
Algorithms are set to do for financial markets what computers did for the auto industry—turn out higher-quality and more client-oriented transactions in something close to real time, and with fewer humans in the mix. | 27 Feb 2007 |
Data quality has gained much attention in the business press in relation to recent regulations and corporate governance requirements that mandate attention to improved corporate data quality. | 27 Feb 2007 |
Financial markets companies face dual challenges. How do you improve efficiency, growth and resiliency in the near-term, while simultaneously preparing for medium-to long-term needs? This overview provides information about how IBM’s Financial Markets Industry Models can help you meet both of these goals. | 14 Feb 2007 |
This white paper discusses how the IBM Financial Markets Industry Models (FMIM) can help firms achieve their strategic trade processing objectives by focusing on business process improvement through our ‘leading practice’ process templates and their underlying technical components. | 19 Jan 2007 |
Effective risk management is a challenge for financial services firms because their fluctuating computing needs can tax their internal systems. This brochure explains the benefits of Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD), a hosted solution from IBM that can extend in-house computing capabilities on an as needed basis. | 18 Jan 2007 |
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is fundamentally changing how financial institutions do business in Europe. This white paper explores how the IBM Financial Markets Industry Models (FMIM) leverages a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to take full advantage of this new business paradigm. | 09 Jan 2007 |
This white paper by Richard W. Harms, PH.D., presents a comprehensive perspective on fraud, AML, and ATF-CFT risk management challenges and the critical role that information technology must play to meet these challenges. | 01 Dec 2006 |
While areas of uncertainty remain, banks have sufficient elements to assess the financial and operational impact of SEPA, develop their business strategy and plan the transition accordingly. This brochure from IBM Global Business Services explains why banks need to take immediate action and details how IBM can help. | 10 Nov 2006 |
This executive brief examines how new products, channels and geographies have increased the complexity of bank operating models and are inhibiting change across the industry. Learn how a progressive operational transformation can help optimize processes to improve your ability to respond to shifts in market conditions or business strategy. | 10 Nov 2006 |
Managing risk in the financial services industry has always been critical to success. IT is playing a crucial role in identifying, mitigating and responding to these events. | 28 Oct 2006 |
As the retail face of a bank, branches will continue to be an important channel for bank transactions. This paper discusses how new marketing and sales approaches drawn from the retail industry—such as digital merchandising and providing virtual advice and consulting on demand—are enhancing the customer experience. | 27 Oct 2006 |
Service-oriented architecture (SOA). People are talking about it, but what is it, why does it matter and how will your business benefit? This IBM Institute of Business Value report explains how a SOA approach to infrastructure design provides the flexibility you to need to compete—and win. | 25 Oct 2006 |
As companies gather more customer information and sensitive data, theft from authorized users within the company are placing new demands on the security of your networks. Understanding normal vs. aberrant behavior by employees is the key to reducing insider attacks. | 24 Oct 2006 |
This paper presents an IBM point of view on the impact of electronically stored information (ESI) on regulatory compliance and the process involved in legal “discovery,” and the importance of managing ESI within the context of a corporate records management program. | 18 Oct 2006 |
Retail banks can't assume that the growth and returns of the recent past will continue. Amid a throng of banking competitors – including new market entrants, forward-thinking incumbents and non-banks – banks need to differentiate themselves in ways that are not easily duplicated. | 18 Oct 2006 |
Financial exchanges in nearly every part of the globe are finding themselves making the most important trade in their existence, and it doesn’t have anything to do with equities, derivatives or commodities. As old business models are exchanged for new ones ... | 18 Oct 2006 |
Because derivatives are such a different species – most involve different processing times, multiple contracts, traditionally manual processes and an increased number of reconciliations – standard fund processing systems don't know what to... | 18 Oct 2006 |
After years of concerted cost-cutting, sustained and consistent revenue growth has returned to the agenda of many banks. However, new products, channels and geographies have made operating models too complex. For many banks, products, channels and lines of business are only partially integrated, and ... | 18 Oct 2006 |
What value can SOA bring to your business? This IBM Institute of Business Value paper provides an overview of our SOA investment analysis framework as a tool for gauging the return on investment your business may gain from a SOA-based approach to system design. | 12 Oct 2006 |
Learn how investment banks are applying technology innovations in order to gain competitive advantage in the move to algorithmic trading. | 02 Oct 2006 |
Given recent regulations demanding transparency and accountability and the stiff market and non-market penalties associated with non-compliance, banks have no choice but to take these matters seriously. | 27 Sep 2006 |
Business executives are turning to their IT managers to provide data management solutions that can bring strategic and tactical advantages to their firms. This white paper can help you learn how the software provides a fast, reliable infrastructure for the delivery of financial market data throughout an enterprise. | 22 Sep 2006 |
CFOs have to become more effective and efficient in supporting core needs across the enterprise. | 18 Sep 2006 |
Professionally speaking, doctors and bankers might seem to have little in common, but in truth, both need to be effective diagnosticians. One tries to accurately identify physical maladies so they can be treated before they get worse, and the other attempts to correctly ascertain the true identities of existing and potential customers ... | 24 Jul 2006 |
With investment capital flowing into financial markets in a tidal rush, asset and hedge funds managers have turned their attention to equity derivatives as a potential fast path to higher returns. One consequence, though, has been an increased strain on information systems ... | 24 Jul 2006 |
As most financial institutions have taken steps to increase their firm's value creation and capital productivity, further business optimization will likely require substantial transformation of their organizational structure and operating environment. Implementing an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function ... | 24 Jul 2006 |
The debate between the comparative merits of self-regulation and centrally-mandated regulation always centers on the need to align the interests of the regulated companies and their customers. | 14 Jul 2006 |
This brochure from The IBM Institute of Business Value details findings from a study of the challenges facing today’s Human Resources professional and departments and the evolution of their role in the organization. Learn how HR departments are forging closer relationships with business units across the company to deliver strategic value. | 11 Jul 2006 |
The need for improved threat and fraud intelligence capabilities in financial services is clear. Internal and external exposures can cost millions of dollars, result in regulatory fines and damage customer trust. This industry brief describes why fighting theft and fraud is an operational and strategic imperative. | 30 Jun 2006 |
This TowerGroup report provides insight about how the growing complexity in the financial services industry, coupled with increasing volumes and diversity in electronic transactions, is clashing with legacy and fragmented banking systems that encircle a maze of duplicative and inconsistent data repositories. | 27 Jun 2006 |
Entity analytics technology offers the hope that bankers soon will be better able to diagnose cases of stolen identity and potentially fraudulent activity. | 02 Jun 2006 |
The shift away from static financial reporting and compliance management toward enterprisewide, predictive business insight continues for chief financial officers inthe financial services sector, but there are still large gaps between the importance assigned to delivering that insight and CFOs’ actual ability to follow through. | 18 May 2006 |
The Basel Capital Accord has certainly been a catalyst in spearheading the drive towards building appropriate credit risk modeling and capital adequacy requirements. However, it is no substitute whatsoever for designing a business risk strategy. Banks will have to select what their risk appetite is, how to allocated their resources optimally ... | 02 May 2006 |
Financial markets firms have benefited from the edge provided by proprietary information access and market insight, but these two forces are approaching their limits — and many of today's profit engines will stall, while new value engines will begin firing on all cylinders. Firms must be able to succeed in an environment ... | 02 May 2006 |
Our 2006 CEO Study takes a comprehensive, global look at a topic that is increasingly important to CEOs and government leaders worldwide: innovation. We knew, from our 2004 Study, that CEOs were relying on innovation to drive profitable growth. But beyond innovation's bottom-line importance, we believed that business ... | 02 May 2006 |
In the world of online banking and investment transactions it's literally spy versus spy, with adware undercover agents surreptitiously tracking customer behavior while illegal "phishing" enthusiasts cast their digital nets in the increasingly lucrative waters of the home PC. This is decidedly unfunny to global banks and investment ... | 02 May 2006 |
Wall Street has always had a language all its own and becoming familiar with the terminology of the financial markets has long been a key part of the front-, middle- and back-office training curriculum. A complete and concise definition of reference data remains as elusive as ever. Despite the vital standardization efforts underway ... | 02 May 2006 |
To compete in an increasingly global market, financial services firms must incorporate global sourcing into their business strategies. However, many companies hesitate to do so, fearing downtime, poor performance or security gaps. But there are ways to reduce risk and use global sourcing as a vehicle for profitable growth. | 21 Apr 2006 |
The flagship product, FLEXCUBE is a comprehensive banking solution for financial institutions across the globe in the areas of retail, corporate, Internet and investment banking. | 11 Apr 2006 |
Attaining compliance with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) requires key business decisions and project launches, along with understanding what areas may require more guidance from the regulator. In this white paper, IBM offers our point of view on the approach organizations may take to attain compliance with MiFID. | 07 Apr 2006 |
i-flex® solutions and IBM have joined forces to create a flexible foundation for successful core banking transformation centered on the i-flex FLEXCUBE® product suite. | 07 Mar 2006 |
Morley Fund Management wished to move to a more flexible cost base and improve efficiency; many diverse applications and data repositories had become so intertwined over the years that decoupling selected functions presented serious challenges. Morley and IBM Premier Business Partner, Alphacourt, developed a 'hub and spoke' architecture ... | 24 Feb 2006 |
The IFW is a comprehensive set of information, process and integration models that represents best practice systems development in the financial services industry. | 22 Feb 2006 |
WebSphere® Customer Center provides a single customer view so you can manage each customer relationship as an integrated whole. This brochure describes how, with data from all channels and systems, you can provide better service and tailored wealth management products and services. | 17 Feb 2006 |
High-profile financial failures over the past decade — and an accompanying wave of new and pending regulations — have prompted a renewed focus on enterprise risk management. But how can banks manage increased credit, market and operational risk while providing sufficient transparency to maintain the confidence of their stakeholders? | 14 Feb 2006 |
The role of the corporate CFO is rapidly expanding. It is extending beyond a traditional focus on external and regulatory reporting, and 'enforcing' of financial policy and process. CFOs are increasingly being called upon to act as a business partner to help guide and improve business performance across their organisations. | 14 Feb 2006 |
Retail investors' needs are changing. They need high-quality, objective advice and guidance to navigate through market uncertainty and increased product complexity. Although individual asset management companies are making strides, the industry at large may not have caught on quite yet. The solution may come in two parts... | 14 Feb 2006 |
Most financial services executives would readily admit they rely on integrated, cutting-edge information systems to give them a window on the business world. They make informed business decisions based on near-realtime assessments of the state of the global market ... | 14 Feb 2006 |
Top banks are topping out at finding new ways to build competitive differentiation through conventional customer relationship management (CRM) plays. Are they missing part of the picture? By understanding the entire customer experience, banks can explore a new frontier of true customer advocacy. | 14 Feb 2006 |
Most financial services executives would readily admit they rely on integrated, cutting-edge information systems to give them a window on the business world. They make informed business decisions based on near-realtime assessments of the state of the global market, customer demand and their own internal business processes ... | 30 Jan 2006 |
Hedge funds represent both an opportunity and a challenge to traditional fund managers who can outsource hedge fund administration to a specialist at the risk of increasing fragmentation. The risks of fragmented operations demand a clear vision of how derivatives processing capability should be incorporated into process and systems. | 25 Jan 2006 |
With IBM WebSphere® Extended Deployment, line-of-business executives and CIOs can use WebSphere software to optimize both resource usage across the organization and responsiveness to business goals and priorities. | 23 Jan 2006 |
If you're in the retail asset management business, the sound of the morning paper hitting your desk probably has become an antacid moment. Upsetting headlines about market timing, biased investment advice, out-of-court settlements and crusading attorneys general likely have you searching for relief in the form of a better relationship model. | 17 Jan 2006 |
IBM and IBM Business Partner ADT Security Services are now jointly able to provide your financial operations with the real benefits of networked digital video surveillance and security solutions at affordable levels. We can arm your facilities with a complete data capture, storage and retrieval solution that helps safeguard people and assets. | 09 Jan 2006 |
Redefine your competitive position in today’s financial markets industry while achieving the benefits of scale, flexibility and efficiency. This quick read from the IBM Institute of Business Value explores how component business models for financial markets can help drive specialization and focus. | 11 Aug 2005 |
By eliminating the tradeoffs executives have traditionally been forced to make between differentiation, responsiveness and efficiency, the specialized enterprise will fundamentally reshape firms and industries for the 21st century. This IBM Institute for Business Value quick read explores the benefits of specialization. | 06 Jul 2005 |
Commissioned by IBM and Siebel, Datamonitor researchers posed as 'anonymous buyers' to the world's 300 top banks. They inquired about products and services via Web, e-mail and phone — measuring customer service responsiveness, performance and follow up. | 13 Apr 2005 |
The balance of power between the retail bank and account holder has changed forever. Customers demand the convenience of automation as well as personal face-to-face treatment - all as a seamless experience. | 29 Mar 2005 |
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