by Kristin Moyer | November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment
Some would argue that the East will come to the West – future tense. By 2050, the BRIC countries plus Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey will likely surpass the G7 (source: PwC, 2006). Some of us will be dead by then, some of us just old. Much closer than that is the number of years it [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, bric, china, east, east/west divide, far east, middle east, west
by Kristin Moyer | November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
Stessa Cohen here. I was born and raised in Washington, DC, literally inside the Beltway. My father even worked on Capitol Hill for a few years in a profession that has been made mostly obsolete by video. He used to tell stories of smoking cigars after work with Democrat and Republican senators alike. Many of [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, customer experience, customer onboarding, facebook, politics, president-elect, social networks, social software, transparency
by Kristin Moyer | November 6, 2008 | Comments Off
Christophe Uzureau here. We are seeing more and more use of payment information, or payment information combined with other data sources, to support business decisions and provide input into economic indicators. This is especially important at a time when existing indicators are failing to capture the complexity of consumer and business sentiment. The transition to [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, ebay, payment information value added services, payments, paypal, pivas
by Kristin Moyer | November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments
Mary Knox here. Conversations over the last three weeks have once again come back to the issue: where should the individual or team ultimately responsible for enterprise data governance reside, and to what part of the organization should they report up through? In researching the role and placement of data governance (Setting Responsibility for Risk [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, data governance
by Kristin Moyer | November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
David Furlonger here. According to recent data from Mastercard: the amount of gasoline being consumed by the US consumer has declined dramatically over the year. Not surprising you might think based on oil price rises. However, the data Mastercard has collected also shows that consumption has NOT risen even though the average price at the [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, hummer, mastercard, oil, oil prices, payment information value added services, pivas
by Kristin Moyer | November 3, 2008 | 6 Comments
Kristin Moyer, David Furlonger, Peter Redshaw and Rick DeLotto here. The US election has almost arrived. A few final thoughts on how the newly elected President and Congress will impact banks and IT: We believe that R&D is likely to continue to move “offshore” to countries with existing technology capabilities, interests and funding. The key [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: $700 billion bailout, banking and investment services, IT, twitter, us election
by Kristin Moyer | November 3, 2008 | Comments Off
Peter Redshaw and Alistair Newton here. A recent Gartner meeting for financial services executives in London highlighted just how difficult it is for CIOs to contain costs whilst meeting IT demands. Finding ways to cut costs and – simultaneously – to help maintain or generate income is an acute dilemma for them. As attendees from [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: cio, cost containment, financial services, innovation, IT, market crisis
