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Don't dither over IT in the downturn, banks told
News Financial institutions are being warned they have two tech choices in order to survive the economic downturn: either go all out and plump for radical IT-enabled change, or make like bears and hibernate until the storm... [05 Nov 2008]
Mobile wallets to bulk out m-payments' future
News However there are several hurdles to be addressed if the market is to reach tipping point, Juniper said, including NFC handset availability, workable business models and financial legislation. In the... [30 Oct 2008]
RIM: Profits soar in second quarter
News The numbers, $2.58bn in revenue and $495.5m in net income, were roughly in line with the company's own expectations but slightly below those of financial analysts. BlackBerry sales were roughly in line with Wall Street... [26 Sep 2008]
Global IT spending growth slumps
News More recently, the financial services market, as seen by the recent collapse of Lehman Brothers, is suffering from a crisis in confidence caused by a spate of write-downs and concerns over liquidity. A... [18 Sep 2008]
Global BPO market to hit $450bn by 2012
News The credit crunch will hasten organisations move offshore, as companies look to reduce costs and buy their way into emerging growth markets, particularly in the financial services and telecoms sectors,... [16 Jun 2008]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to retire
News It resonates from a financial perspective, as improving energy efficiency helps us to control costs. Commenting on Vodafone under Sarin, Jeremy Green, mobile director at analyst house Ovum, described its... [27 May 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Analyst Ovum credits Verwaayen for "sorting out the mess he inherited when he joined BT in 2002", as well as "personally initiating a constructive dialogue and rapprochement between BT and Ofcom". Mike Cansfield,... [08 Apr 2008]
MiFID compliance warning
News MiFID - the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive - came into force on 1 November 2007 and is Europe's effort to improve the way investment banks do business across the continent. Peter Redshaw,... [13 Mar 2008]
MiFID: No big bang - but it's not over yet
News MiFID - the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive - came into effect on 1 November and is Europe's effort to improve the way investment banks do business across the continent. Speaking to... [26 Nov 2007]
Financial institutions hurt by homegrown tech?
News UK financial services organisations are being hit by downtime because of a reliance on homegrown applications, a survey has claimed. Forrester principal analyst Peter O'Neill said the... [23 Oct 2007]
Outsourcing deals rocket
News The business sectors that saw the strongest outsourcing growth were financial services and insurance, the analyst house said. Helpdesk and support... [23 Oct 2007]
Britannia cuts call queues
News The centre is using Queuebuster from Netcall to offer customers the option to either go through the automated call-handling system straight away or to wait for a call agent.silicon.com Financial Services [10 Oct 2007]
MiFID - will the banks be ready in time?
News But Peter Redshaw, research director at analyst Gartner, said it is likely to take financial institutions a while to work out their new processes and arrive at "optimum compliance".... [03 Oct 2007]
Desktop PC 'not dead - but changing'
News He pointed to financial services, oil and gas exploration and digital content creation being the most likely markets for blade servers. Thin clients are attracting interest in sectors such as... [06 Sep 2007]
Does homegrown tech taste better?
News Aphrodite Brinsmead, analyst at Datamonitor and author of the report, said businesses currently spend around a third of their tech budget on internal IT initiatives. The research found financial service... [05 Jul 2007]
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