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by Kristin Moyer | January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
Contributed by David Furlonger Today we conducted our Euro Crisis Webinar. 416 participants were surveyed about: Whether their enterprise had plans in place to deal with a worsened euro crisis Whether the euro crisis has impacted their IT budget Whether the euro crisis would influence investments in innovation Results of the polling revealed that 50% [...]
Category: banking CIO Customer euro Executive Decisions insurance operations payments securities social networking twitter Uncategorized Tags: banking, banking and investment services, Basel II, cio, cost containment, customer communication, customer service, customer trust, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, innovation, insurance, IT, market crisis, Operational risk, regulation, regulatory compliance, restructuring, risk management, scenario planning
by Kristin Moyer | January 10, 2012 | Comments Off
Contributed by David Furlonger [ Register Now For January 19th webinar: Euro Crisis Webinar ] An interesting article appeared on Reuters yesterday: Financial repression is here and may be helpful. It discusses and supports the potential for greater control over the financial markets by governments, including a continuation of the current schemes that print more money [...]
Category: banking CIO Customer euro Executive Decisions insurance operations payments securities social networking twitter Uncategorized Tags: banking, banking and investment services, Basel II, BCM DR, cio, cost containment, customer service, customer trust, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, innovation, insurance, IT, lending, market crisis, Operational risk, regulation, regulatory compliance, restructuring, risk management, scenario planning, sourcing
by Kristin Moyer | June 16, 2011 | Comments Off
The Gartner Banking & Investment Services (BIS) team is adding an analyst in the Investment Management area (i.e. asset management and wealth management). Full details of the role and how to apply or refer a friend/colleague can be found here. Please note that this search is global (although it is listed as an EMEA hire) [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | April 8, 2011 | Comments Off
Don Free and Kristin Moyer here. In anticipation of a potential government shutdown in the United States at midnight on April 8th, Navy Federal Credit Union has taken steps to engender customer loyalty. They have announced that they will cover the April 15 payroll for those active duty members who have their direct deposit of [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | September 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
Stessa Cohen here. A couple of years ago, we went through the initial shockwaves of the financial crisis. A couple of financial services firms like Lehman Brothers and some others suddenly went out of business. Consumers had questions, were fearful of what would happen to their retirement and bank accounts. Remember that? Two years ago, I, along [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | April 29, 2010 | Comments Off
David Furlonger and Peter Redshaw here….Yesterdays Australian Financial Review detailed a story about three banks that intended to form a consortium to force change in the provision of technology services from major IT providers such as HP, Microsoft, Oracle and IBM.[ http://www.afr.com/p/business/technology/banks_seek_billions_in_it_savings_JBwXh6ZmMhhRLrGUMBZCSK] There seem to be two different components to this story. First is demand [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: cloud computing, Consortia, Infrastructure, sourcing
by Kristin Moyer | April 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Mary Knox here. I was excited to see the announcement that, beginning today, a brand new global enterprise architecture (EA) study is being conducted by the newly formed EA Research Center at Penn State University, in collaboration with Gartner and other enterprise architecture associations. Gartner will be receiving a copy of the results as an input [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | April 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Mary Knox here. As we launch our survey of reference data management software vendors, I am struck once again by the level of fragmentation – and confusion – in this marketplace. Many of our clients have this same realization as they pursue reference data management centralization initiatives and look for a solution that can address [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | January 13, 2010 | Comments Off
US President Obama, and other world leaders for that matter, have been criticized this past year for not being hard enough on China and its human rights track record (see here). While human rights are generally viewed as a political issue, they are fast becoming a (bigger) business issue as well. Google announced a sophisticated [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | December 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Financial services firms can learn a lot about marketing from China. The next stage in China’s economic development is to progress from being the factory of the world (that is, from being made in China) to creating things that others have not yet conceived (that is, being created in China). This will enable China to [...]
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