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 ]
December 2011-
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). <br><br>
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. <br><br>
You discover why changing to ...
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.<br><br>
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.<br&...
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.<br><br>
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge. <br><...
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.<br><br>
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 ...
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 ...
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
Read this paper and ...
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. <br><br>
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.
Top Strategies in Risk Management
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
One financial services discipline that has taken a lot of heat has been risk management. Some experts say the beginnings of the financial crisis were allowed to form because firms didnt practice risk management correctly.
IBM Customer Care & Insight Solution for Banking
[ Source: TechWeb ]
April 2009-
Wayne Wilczynski
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 ...
Fit, Focused & Ready to Fight
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2010-
As the world recuperates from its recent economic malaise, bankers face a host of challenges as they seek to improve the industry's health and foster long-term growth. Banks must focus on raising capital, improving asset quality and increasing profits. New and proposed regulations all point to higher capital requirements. However, banks access to capital markets is constrained by the weaknesses in their loan portfolios and by the overall decline in public wealth.
Optimization Applications in Finance, Securities, Banking and Insurance
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2010-
Optimization is unique simply by being the mathematical discipline focused on efficiency. Along with statistics and predictive analytics, it is one of the two mathematical disciplines used most frequently in the world of business. This white paper shows how mathematical optimization provide tools that deliver significant competitive advantage for solving the most challenging problems encountered in finance, including risk management, operational cost, and product innovation.
Paving the Way to Risk-free Change: Guide to consolidating IT systems and rolling out new services in a payment processing environment
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
September 2010-
As the economy continues to improve, banks and payment processors are focused on expanding market share, new product offerings and operational efficiencies as part of their long-term survival and growth strategies. New service roll-outs, migration efforts and consolidation projects are translating into a whole new set of IT performance challenges and operational risks.
At the same time, IT systems are also being looked at as an integral component of a financial risk management strategy. The ...
Bank Improves Crisis Management Communications with Help from BlackBerry
[ Source: BlackBerry ]
April 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.<br><br>
The bank turned to BlackBerry® Alliance member Tenet Computer Group Inc. (Tenet) to roll out a customized version of its PINpoint application.<br><br>
The app automatically collects ...
Leading Mortgage Lenders Keep Prospects Waiting
[ Source: Leads360 - Sales Software ]
August 2011-
In this study of consumer response strategies across the mortgage lending industry, top mortgage lenders underperform on key customer service and sales effectiveness metrics and lead response benchmarks. In fact, 74 percent of lenders failed to attempt contact with a new lead via telephone within the first 24 hours after the lead was submitted. Only 58 percent of lenders responded via email within the same time frame. Beyond the unresponsive follow-up, nearly half of the lenders surveyed failed ...
Paving the Way to Risk-free Change: Guide to consolidating IT systems and rolling out new services in a payment processing environment
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
September 2010-
As the economy continues to improve, banks and payment processors are focused on expanding market share, new product offerings and operational efficiencies as part of their long-term survival and growth strategies. New service roll-outs, migration efforts and consolidation projects are translating into a whole new set of IT performance challenges and operational risks.
At the same time, IT systems are also being looked at as an integral component of a financial risk management strategy. The ...
Banking In The Survivors' World
[ Source: Finacle From Infosys ]
January 2010-
The troughs and peaks of a dynamic business environment can shake the foundations of even the most prepared organization. When so many banks have fallen by the wayside, those that remain, in the survivors’ world, have proved their mettle. We believe that only innovation will enable banks to withstand further tremors, counter market forces and create competitive advantage to ensure future sustainability. However, banks must be careful to invest their energies in meaningful innovation, which ...
Optimization Applications in Finance, Securities, Banking and Insurance
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2010-
Optimization is unique simply by being the mathematical discipline focused on efficiency. Along with statistics and predictive analytics, it is one of the two mathematical disciplines used most frequently in the world of business. This white paper shows how mathematical optimization provide tools that deliver significant competitive advantage for solving the most challenging problems encountered in finance, including risk management, operational cost, and product innovation.
Fit, Focused & Ready to Fight
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2010-
As the world recuperates from its recent economic malaise, bankers face a host of challenges as they seek to improve the industry's health and foster long-term growth. Banks must focus on raising capital, improving asset quality and increasing profits. New and proposed regulations all point to higher capital requirements. However, banks access to capital markets is constrained by the weaknesses in their loan portfolios and by the overall decline in public wealth.
Optimizing Costs While Improving Agility
[ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010-
While short-term cost reduction can be easily achieved, long-term cost optimization requires that financial institutions simplify their business models, rethink their organizational structures, and employ technology in new ways.
Top Strategies in Risk Management
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
One financial services discipline that has taken a lot of heat has been risk management. Some experts say the beginnings of the financial crisis were allowed to form because firms didnt practice risk management correctly.
Risk Management: The Role of Technology
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
How did the financial services industry collectively get to where it is today, with politicians making examples of every bonus, and regulators threatening new restrictions on everything from executive pay to flash orders?
Regulation and Its Impact on Client Acquisition in Banking
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
Keeping a client informed through good communication seems like one of the most basic things that a financial firm can do to improve customer relationships. But, more often than not, they dont do a good job with client management.
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