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Archive for: September, 2010

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 29/09/2010 | 4842 views

DG Infosoc is gearing up activities under the Digital Single Market headline. When this is being rolled out it is important to ask the question: Why? The obvious answers are that large scale x-sector digitalization is: 1. making enterprises more competitive as (i) they become more cost-efficient, (ii) serve their customer better (digitally), (ii... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Colin Day - SunGard - London | 27/09/2010 | 9417 views | 4 comments

Ten trends that are shaping the banking industry

I work with a great bunch of folks here at SunGard, every Monday morning, without fail, we congregate around the coffee machine and catch-up on our weekend activities. Today, for once in my life! I had little to say having spent my Sunday afternoon watching my eldest son’s football team put in a great performance yet still losing eight nil. ... Tags: Post-trade & ops, Sibos

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 25/09/2010 | 5641 views

Nobody promised you a rose garden

I went to a book publishing party yesterday. Wonderful book about interior design and life by extraordinary personality. Lots of cultural types around and good food. And as I am kind of known as Mr. e-Invoicing the accountant present came up to me with his story – which went like this: He: “ The migration to e-invoicing has not been ea... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Brett King - Movenbank - New York | 23/09/2010 | 4999 views | 1 comment

A REAL solution to customer-centred banking?

The issue of how to make the migration to a truly customer centric organization is often agonized over. While many are keen to see that goal materialize, there are just as many who feel organizational inertia and long entrenched silos are just too significant a hurdle to circumvent. Innovation in the customer space is often a challenge too. How do... Tags: Retail banking, Wholesale banking

Graham Underwood - GFT - London | 22/09/2010 | 4390 views | 1 comment

iPad - just a new device, or a new way of doing business?

It allows corporate finance to demonstrate its products in real time and with live data in its clients’ offices; it is a conduit for research information; it’s tool for distributing trader insight. But haven’t we always been able to do this? Surely real time product demonstration can be done on laptops? Information can be made i...