asset investment banks
Banks lay off IT staff as big tech projects get the chop
News The latest quarterly report by executive recruitment company Heidrick & Struggles found a number of major investment banks have reduced IT staff, with cuts ranging from five to 20 per cent and spread around the globe. [22 Feb 2008]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment The only place we are seeing much growth are the large investment banks, stock exchanges and asset managers. The directive, which mainly impacts investment banks, market data companies, trading platforms and exchanges, will allow companies to... [19 Jun 2007]
TIBCO Helps Reduce System Complexity and Costs at Societe Generale
White Paper The company, which is renowned for its innovative capability to track trends in global finance and meet changing client needs, has three primary business lines: retail banking; asset management and private banking; and corporate and investment... [09 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis The only place we are seeing much growth are the large investment banks, stock exchanges and asset managers. The directive, which mainly impacts investment banks, market data companies, trading platforms and exchanges, will allow companies to... [06 Jun 2007]
RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services
News Meanwhile customers called out for banks to use stronger authentication methods to allay fears about online banking and fraud. The year began with a government banking watchdog warning banks they must do more to help customers learn safer online... [19 Dec 2006]
European IT companies miss out on bank deals
News The analyst said there is huge potential for growth as banks focus on developing their product offering outside of consumer finance - in areas such as life insurance, pensions and asset management - while avoiding siloed data and systems. [10 Nov 2006]
Investment giant signs £134m outsourcing deal
News Schroders has £122.5bn under management with clients including banks, local authorities, charities and pension funds. Global asset management company Schroders has renewed its IT outsourcing contract with CSC for an extra seven years and 10 months. [02 Mar 2006]
HP Success Story: ITSM in Alfa Bank
White Paper Alfa Bank is a full service bank, providing commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and trade finance and insurance products. Alfa Bank faced the challenge to achieve shorter time-to-market of the banks new products, improve the... [24 Mar 2005]
Linux gets big in the City
News The researchers attributed the substantial increase to the investment banks, asset management firms and exchanges in question looking for operational efficiencies while also trying to drive down costs. [31 Jan 2005]
ITSM in Alfa Bank
White Paper Alfa Bank is a full service bank, providing commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and trade finance and insurance products. The challenge was to achieve shorter time-to-market of the banks new products Improve the speed and... [24 Dec 2004]
At Last Internationalization of Retail Banking? - the Case of the Spanish Banks in Latin America
White Paper We find that the Spanish banks are exhibiting asset-seeking, asset-exploiting, and oligopolistic behaviors, thus posing no serious challenge to established theories of foreign investment. Since 1995 two Spanish banks—Banco Santander Central Hispano... [25 Feb 2004]
Firm Investment and Balance-Sheet Problems in Japan
White Paper It finds that smaller non-bond issuing firms were facing liquidity constraints; these firms balance-sheet conditions (the debt asset ratios) affected their investment from the midst of the bubble era by influencing mail banks lending to them; and... [25 Feb 2004]
Credit Crunch, Bank Lending, and Monetary Policy: A Model of Financial Intermediation with Heterogeneous Projects
White Paper A credit crunch is generally defined as a decline in the supply of credit because, although banks are less willing to lend, lending rates do not rise. But if the crunch is caused by inefficient conservative lending by banks, it is an open question... [25 Feb 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Making money out of IT
Comment Privileged executives are said to have been favourably treated as a means to persuade them to bring new investment business to the banks. The suspicion is that the banks frequently used them as bait. It not only provides the investor with some... [28 Apr 2003]
The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy
Comment Traditionally, banks calculated the asset value of a company based on all the dead things like plant, machinery, company cars and buildings. Small local suppliers will be replaced by foreign giants who can now find global markets to justify the... [05 Apr 2000]
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