financial firms
RSS financial firmsThe Impact of New Communication Tools for Financial Services Firms
White Paper Email, for example, and more recently instant messaging can provide individuals within these firms with a distinct competitive advantage by providing information more quickly or allowing them to make more well-informed... [13 Nov 2009]
Key Global Trends in Information Security
White Paper Consequently, many financial services firms may soon find their information security spending needs growing significantly. The regulatory climate fosters greater compliance burdens and the increased... [13 Nov 2009]
Model Risk Management: Key Considerations for Challenging Times
White Paper Model risk management stands at the forefront of risk management for many of today's financial services firms. While model risk management has come a long way over the last decade, it is still an... [13 Nov 2009]
Implementing PCI Compliance Controls With ScriptLogic
White Paper Over the last several years, a number of retailers, banks, service providers and credit card companies have experienced breaches in security resulting in the obtaining of personal and financial data that customers have... [13 Nov 2009]
The ROI of Data Loss Prevention
White Paper IP is the heart of today's technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and even financial firms, and their most coveted sustainable advantage. One data loss incident can result in continuous cost. After... [13 Nov 2009]
Viewpoint: Globalization in the Asset Management Industry
White Paper It explores the fundamental drivers and enablers of greater globalization, as well as the key challenges facing individual firms. It also considers how the direction of globalization may change in response to the current... [13 Nov 2009]
Adapting to a New Future: Impact of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 on Financial Institutions
White Paper These firms are approaching the situation as a call to examine and improve businesses processes across the enterprise while considering the future business model for credit card lending as a whole. Forward-looking... [13 Nov 2009]
Getting the Most Out of Your Firm-Wide Risk Management
White Paper In the light of the Pillar 2 requirements, financial institutions and investment firms are now obliged to strengthen their firmwide Risk Management, in order to foster the development of a robust risk... [13 Nov 2009]
No more tax breaks for offshoring?
Comment Lawyers Belinda Doshi and Nick Beecham explain how financial firms can protect their business. From 1 January 2010, for the first time business customers will have to account for the reverse charge to... [11 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment They have accumulated piles of cash so you would think top Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys Technologies and Wipro Ltd would go hunting for sizeable acquisitions in the current market. The top three Indian... [06 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News Financial services firms' IT budgets fell by 8.3 per cent between 2008 and 2009, meaning the banks have cut their budgets more than other industries, and saw spending fall by 6.8 per cent year-on-year. [04 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Research group Forrester claims that 55 per cent of energy consumed by UK firms is outside of the datacentre, so centralising management of the desktop environment is essential. Gartner's Mingay recommends... [29 Oct 2009]
Agile Foundation for Competitive Advantage: Oracle Tuxedo Enables Speed, Innovation, and Efficiency in Financial Services
White Paper Unrelenting competition is transforming the financial services industry, spurring firms to reinvent themselves to win customers and asset share. At the same time, organic growth, operational costs... [15 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment Because although there's an army of talent out there, most firms are either looking in the wrong places or pursuing policies that actively repel those they most urgently need to woo. This means firms... [13 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News BPO firms that are "struggling to survive" will be pushed out of the market by new vendors or be swallowed up by existing vendors Gartner predicts - with bids likely to be mounted by big software vendors and services... [30 Sep 2009]
