The Core Systems DilemmaDecember 10, 2012Banks looking to upgrade or replace legacy core systems have a choice: Do it all at once or gradually. Many factors go into deciding which is better for a specific bank.
The 'Cool' Factor: How Banks Can Attract Top Candidates to the IT WorkforceOctober 03, 2012Bank CIOs are going to have to work harder to recruit the best IT talent as the importance of technology in banking continues to increase. We ask some of this year's Elite 8 how bank tech leaders can attract the IT workforce of the future.
ELITE 8 2012: Joe Reilly Pushes Beyond IT Infrastructure to Create Business ValueSeptember 27, 2012To help keep meet some of the new challenges facing Zions Bancorporation, EVP and CIO Joe Reilly and his team have embarked on several key initiatives, including plans to improve time to market and agility, to modernize Zions' core banking system, to inves
5 Keys to Putting Non-Bank Competitors in Their PlaceJune 26, 2012To stave off the threat from alternative financial services providers and retain their place as consumers' trusted providers of choice, banks must learn from the very non-bank competitors that seek to disintermediate them.
Banks Push Hadoop Envelope to Open Big Data's SecretsFebruary 04, 2012Finding that traditional database technologies reach their limits when confronted with Big Data, banks including Zions Bancorporation are exploring Apache's Hadoop open source platform to enable deeper analytics.
New Zions CIO Joe Reilly Walks a TightropeDecember 12, 2011Joe Reilly, recently appointed CIO of Zions Bancorp, will look to balance the needs of the holding company as a whole with the demands of the eight individual banks it serves.
PrivateBankcorp to Deploy FIS Item Processing ServicesNovember 05, 2010PrivateBancorp Inc., a Chicago-based bank holding company with 34 branches and $12 billion in assets, will outsource some of its item processing operation and upgrade to branch capture services, payments technology provider FIS announced.