What Every Banker Needs to Know About Dodd-Frank (in Less Than 40 Pages)
This Dodd-Frank Cheat Sheet is a synthesis of the legislation's most important provisions, highlighting the Act's key requirements, deliverables and IT implications. While the Cheat Sheet isn't a substitute for reading the entire legislation, the interactive tool will help you make sense of this historic piece of regulation -- in less than 40 pages.
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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.
Sponsored by:<...
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats.
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
A White paper on Social Media for Banks and Financial Services Firms
[ Source: zensar ]
June 2010-
This paper provides bankers with the background needed to understand the world of social media and to determine how to best navigate within this changing online demography. It is intended to provide a blueprint of what social media is today and how it can be harnessed for banks and financial services firms. The paper also discusses a model with recommended practices for the successful implementation of social media planning strategy.
The following topics are addressed ...
Monitoring Your Globe-Trotting Payment Transactions
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
January 2011-
How to manage the performance of payment transactions as they traverse multiple protocols, EFT networks, and critical applications you do not own.
Managing payment transactions has gotten more complex due to the consumer's increasing adoption of electronic alternatives for payments such as PayPal, Amazon Payments, Square and Google, the emergence of new channels types such as mobile payments, and the financial industry's ongoing push towards globalization. It is becoming more and more challenging to manage ...
Learn How to Prepare for the Coming Regulatory and Information Management Challenges
[ Source: Crowe Horwath ]
October 2010-
The still-evolving regulatory requirements stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act are adding a new layer of complexity – and uncertainty – to the information management challenges financial services organizations must face. Ongoing competitive pressures, increasingly complex financial services offerings, aging legacy systems, and industry consolidation only add to the challenge.
This valuable free briefing paper outlines a proven, effective approach for addressing these issues. The paper, “Enterprisewide Information Management: Powerful New Strategies Enable Financial Institutions to ...
Surviving in Uncertain Times: Decision Management Technology Can Help Banks Survive and Thrive Amid the Recession
[ Source: FICO ]
February 2010-
Entering a global recession, companies must respond to increasingly complex markets, changing threats and fleeting opportunities. Improving the way you manage your decisions is critical for survival. Decision Management technology meets four imperatives for businesses seeking to thrive in today’s difficult environment:
• Give business owners control to increase agility: Decision Management puts business owners in charge of day-to-day operations, and delivers a stronger partnership between the business and IT. These ...
Intelligent Customer On-Boarding in Wealth Management: The Evolution
[ Source: Progress Software ]
March 2011-
New client on-boarding is a complex process that is full of opportunity and fraught with risk. Long-term company performance can be impacted, depending on how wealth management firms view this process, and ultimately develop it.
On-boarding not only affects operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and cross-selling opportunities, but is a strong factor in advisor decision-making when advisors are choosing a brokerage firm.
This paper introduces a maturity model for wealth management on-boarding ...
Payments Transformation: One Step at a Time
[ Source: Sterling Commerce ]
May 2008-
Although noncash payments continue to grow globally at approximately 12% compound annual growth rate, in the current competitive market, banks must find a way to increase margins. The most daunting challenge in the near term may well be the need to refocus future investments in “wholesale” payment and cash management services. Banks need to transform their payments services from siloed products that support a single payment method to a convergent, more holistic set of services. They ...
Paperless Plight: Growing Resistance Outpaces Adoption Among U.S. Bank Account Holders
[ Source: Adobe ]
May 2011-
With more US consumers accessing their bank accounts through multiple channels today, the value of a paper snapshot of their financial activity would seem to have shrunk considerably. And yet the percentage of US bank account holders who have given up paper statements averages just 24%. Worse still, 37% of account holders who receive a paper statement today say they will never abandon paper in favor of online statements.
Soft selling paperless adoption on the ...
CSI's 2013 Annual Banking Priorities Study
[ Source: Computer Services, Inc. ]
May 2013-
CSI's 2013 Annual Banking Priorities Study surveyed leaders from more than 200 financial institutions to learn their strategies for accomplishing goals this year and beyond. Accompanied by trending data released by the FDIC, this study reveals your peers' plans for expanding loan growth and market share, weathering regulatory changes and compliance concerns, increasing technology spending - where and how much, and handling information security concerns.
The information suggests that 2013 is the year that financial institutions ...
Supercharging Retail Branch Performance
[ Source: Verint ]
July 2012-
Retail banks face challenging times. In addition to global economic pressures and intense competition, in-person visits to branches are down. More and more customers are using other channels for routine transactions and are often encouraged to do so.
As a result, branch employees have fewer face-to-face opportunities to win customer loyalty, build customer relationships, and sell more products and services. This situation makes it even more important for branches to deliver a high-quality ...
Bank Improves Crisis Management Communications with Help from BlackBerry
[ Source: BlackBerry ]
July 2012-
With a staff of more than 60,000 people dispersed across the United States, U.S. Bank needed a robust and intuitive program that would allow it to send crucial information in the event of an emergency.
The bank turned to BlackBerry? Alliance member Tenet Computer Group Inc. (Tenet) to roll out a customized version of its PINpoint application.
The app automatically collects up-to-date information from authoritative sources, pulls contact information and documents ...
IBM Rational Core systems and application transformation eKit for Financial Services Institutions
[ Source: IBM ]
May 2011-
This eKit provides you with materials about IBM Rational software's role in helping Financial Services Institutions (FSI) transform core systems and applications to grow and change rapidly for meeting evolving customer demands.
Learn how IBM Rational helps optimize the design, delivery and management of core systems and applications.
Paperless Plight: Growing Resistance Outpaces Adoption Among U.S. Bank Account Holders
[ Source: Adobe ]
May 2011-
With more US consumers accessing their bank accounts through multiple channels today, the value of a paper snapshot of their financial activity would seem to have shrunk considerably. And yet the percentage of US bank account holders who have given up paper statements averages just 24%. Worse still, 37% of account holders who receive a paper statement today say they will never abandon paper in favor of online statements.
Soft selling paperless adoption on the ...
A Customer Complaint: 1 Way Of Resolving The Issue
[ Source: IBM ]
May 2011-
Discover how an investment firm was able to achieve 90 percent reduction in customer complaints due to lost or mishandled documents and create savings to date of USD2.2million.
Securities and capital markets: How to meet your investment needs
[ Source: IBM ]
May 2011-
IBM's Decision Management systems are widely used by leading investment banks, asset management and mutual fund firms to meet their compliance requirements while adding intelligent decisioning capabilities to applications and processes throughout the trading cycle, and business channels and systems.
Intelligent Customer On-Boarding in Wealth Management: The Evolution
[ Source: Progress Software ]
March 2011-
New client on-boarding is a complex process that is full of opportunity and fraught with risk. Long-term company performance can be impacted, depending on how wealth management firms view this process, and ultimately develop it.
On-boarding not only affects operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and cross-selling opportunities, but is a strong factor in advisor decision-making when advisors are choosing a brokerage firm.
This paper introduces a maturity model for wealth management on-boarding ...
Monitoring Your Globe-Trotting Payment Transactions
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
January 2011-
How to manage the performance of payment transactions as they traverse multiple protocols, EFT networks, and critical applications you do not own.
Managing payment transactions has gotten more complex due to the consumer's increasing adoption of electronic alternatives for payments such as PayPal, Amazon Payments, Square and Google, the emergence of new channels types such as mobile payments, and the financial industry's ongoing push towards globalization. It is becoming more and more challenging to manage ...
5 Steps to Deeper Customer Engagement in Banking
[ Source: Finacle From Infosys ]
November 2010-
It is recognized that customer engagement, or repeated positive interaction which creates an emotional connect with customers, is very important to a business’ success. Customer engagement studies show that it is viewed as a means to several ends, such as increasing value obtained from and delivered to customers, enriching product offerings, strengthening brand loyalty, acquiring consumer insight and improving market share.
In banking, customer engagement is closely linked with the quality of user experience -- ...
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