IT Management Strategies Featured Articles

• Shrewd Leveraging of Technology and Staff Key to Achieving Cost-Effective AML Compliance
  By automating and streamlining procedures and data management, as well as continually enhancing employees' skills, banks can improve productivity and effectively balance compliance with cost-cutting.
• The Bank of New York Mellon Integrates Legacy Systems to Offer Customers Only the Best
  Following the merger of The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corp., cohead of treasury services integration efforts Al Briand forges a best-of-breed operations and technology portfolio while continuing to provide Treasury Services customers with innovative new products.
• MCNB Banks Unlocks the Potential of Electronic Check Capture
  Epson's POS scanner/printer/transmission device helps MCNB Banks expand into new markets.
• BB&T Improves Online Training With EEDO’s ForceTen LCMS
  BB&T improves online training with EEDO's ForceTen Learning Content Management System.
• International Payments Framework Organization to Standardize Cross-Border Payments
  The International Payments Framework aims to bring standards to cross-border payments.
• Patent Issues a Growing Concern for Banks
  Financial services patents are moving front and center as banks seek to protect their competitive advantage while the courts and the U.S. Patents Office wrangle over the patentability of intangible banking processes.
• The Bank of San Antonio Offers Big-Bank Services With a Small-Bank Touch
  By relying heavily on outsourcing IT and partnering with technology providers, The Bank of San Antonio's Brent Given, president and CEO, helps the institution offer big-bank products and services in a community banking environment.
• Power Management Software Reduces Energy Consumption In Data Centers
  Cassatt's Active Power Management software turns off servers when idle and then turns them back on again when needed.
• Fifth Third Bank Uses Efficiency to Fund New Projects
  Fifth Third Bank drives IT efficiencies to create more IT investment dollars for future initiatives.
• Delaware County Bank & Trust Dedicates 2008 IT Budget to Technology Maintenance
  Rather than spend money on new technology, Delaware County Bank & Trust plans on maintaining systems in 2008.
• Banks Increasingly Deploying Green Technologies in Data Centers
  As energy consumption and costs continue to mushroom, banks increasingly are tapping new technologies -- such as IT asset management, virtualization and cooling solutions -- to improve the efficiency (and environmental friendliness) of their data centers.
• CommunityOne Streamlines HR Functions
  CommunityOne implements a hosted time and attendance solution to streamline HR functions.
• Renasant Bank Chooses a SAN From EqualLogic to Keep Up With Growing Storage Needs
  Slow response times and an expanding network set Renasant Bank on a search for better network storage, resulting in the implementation of a storage area network (SAN) from EqualLogic.
• Online Account Opening Provides Myriad Benefits to Retail Banks
  Online Account Opening From processing efficiencies to competitive differentiation, online account opening offers myriad benefits to retail banks. A successful online account-opening program, however, requires the right products and capabilities, including fraud protection and real-time decisioning.
• Scarborough Building Society Achieves IT Agility With Systems Migration Supported by BluePhoenix
  Scarborough Building Society achieves IT agility with systems migration.