Entries Tagged as 'financial crisis'
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 | December 20, 2011 | Comments Off
Contributed by David Furlonger On the weekend, I read a rather alarming commentary by David Stockman European Banking System is on the Verge of Collapse. While this analysis clearly highlights the fragility of bank balance sheets, it doesn’t dig deeply into the graver issue facing the Eurozone policy makers and indeed the world – that [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Contributed by David Furlonger Commentators suggest over half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list began during a recession or bear market. Does this offer hope to a European market saddled with an on-going crisis and likely poor economic growth, if not recession, for several years to come? The new European Programme for [...]
Category: banking CIO Customer euro Executive Decisions insurance operations payments securities social networking Tags: banking and investment services, Basel II, BCM DR, cost containment, customer communication, customer service, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, innovation, insurance, IT, market crisis, Operational risk, risk management, scenario planning, social media
by Kristin Moyer | December 9, 2011 | Comments Off
Contributed by David Furlonger As announced on the BBC (and other media outlets) today: Euro crisis: Eurozone deal reached without UK it appears on the surface as if consensus has been reached between many Eurozone countries on addressing the crisis. All but the UK whose current leader believes such a deal is not in the [...]
Category: banking CIO Customer euro Executive Decisions insurance operations payments securities social networking Tags: banking and investment services, BCM DR, cost containment, customer communication, customer service, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, insurance, IT, IT vendors, lending, market crisis, Operational risk, regulation, restructuring, risk management, scenario planning
by Kristin Moyer | December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments
Contributed by David Furlonger Today’s WSJ suggested the Euro currency was finished: Banks Prep for Life After Euro This is another news article, in a continuing stream, that has become more intense over the last several months. The question is, are IT professionals, as opposed to economists and maybe politicians, prepared for a redenomination of [...]
Category: Customer Executive Decisions insurance operations payments social networking twitter Tags: banking, banking and investment services, Basel II, BCM DR, cio, euro, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, IT, market crisis, Operational risk, payments, regulation, risk management, scenario planning
by Kristin Moyer | June 23, 2009 | Comments Off
On 17 June 2009, in a report titled “A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation,” U.S. President Barack Obama called for “a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system.” (see http://www.ustreas.gov/news/index1.html). Under the proposal, the federal government will assume a new role as a systemic risk regulator, with increased authority over a wide range [...]
Category: Customer operations payments Tags: Add new tag, banking and investment services, financ, financial crisis, financial services restructuring, regulatory compliance
by Kristin Moyer | April 9, 2009 | Comments Off
In the US alone, there is a projected loss of $1.1 trillion from residential mortgages held by investors and banks worldwide (source: The Goldman Sachs Group). I’ve been asked a lot lately about technologies that can help ease the drastic market conditions facing the financial industry. Advanced mortgage analytics is one of them, and I [...]
Category: Customer Uncategorized Tags: advanced mortgage analytics, financial crisis
by Kristin Moyer | March 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Stessa Cohen here. Since the financial crisis broke into the mainstream press, I’ve been following how banks are communicating with their customers about the crisis. The bottom line so far: pretty dismal. More press release-style communications than clear, direct communication. These days, direct references to the financial crisis has pretty much disappeared from the front pages [...]
Category: Customer Tags: customer communications, financial crisis, retail bank, youtube
by Kristin Moyer | March 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Rick DeLotto here again—I am not trying to raise fear, uncertainty and doubt (this time) —just a bit of caution. I just read a news report that the home of a former executive of a failed European bank was attacked and vandalized by what was described as an “anti capitalist group”. Windows were broken on [...]
Category: Customer Executive Decisions operations Tags: banking and investment services, BCM DR, crisis communications, financial crisis, Operational risk, physical security
