Banking
Continuous Advisory Services covering best strategies to manage IT, customers, and risk while optimizing workflow through technology in consumer credit, retail banking, and delivery channels.
- Consumer Lending
- Delivery Channels
- European Banking and Payments
- Retail Banking
- Wholesale Banking
Payments
Continuous Advisory Services covering best strategies to manage IT, customers, and risk while optimizing workflow through technology in global payments, wholesale banking, and bank cards.
- Bank Cards
- European Banking and Payments
- Global Payments
- Wholesale Banking
Securities & Investments
Continuous Advisory Services focused on business and IT issues facing sell-side brokerage institutions, buy-side institutions, and retail brokerage houses.
- Brokerage & Wealth Management
- Investment Management
- Securities & Capital Markets
Insurance
The Continuous Advisory Service's Insurance Practice provides actionable insights on the strategic and tactical use of IT to process transactions and optimize workflow and client relationships in property and casualty and life and annuity.
- Insurance
Cross-Industry
Continuous Advisory Services that investigate IT investment strategies, emerging IT solutions, risk, and Six Sigma business processes in major global markets and across all financial services.
- Emerging Technologies
- Financial Information Security
- Strategies & IT Investments
Latest Research
- Eating the Elephant: Building the Business Case for Enterprise Fraud Management
- Analyst Author: George Tubin
- Integrated Credit and Collateral Risk Management Vendors: Part 2, Vendor Reviews
- Analyst Author: Craig Focardi, CMB , Justin Bomberowitz
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Upcoming Events
- August 18, 2010 - August 21, 2010
- Harland Financial Solutions’ 2010 Connections User Conference
- Lake Buena Vista, FL
- October 19, 2010 - October 21, 2010
- BAI Retail Delivery
- Las Vegas, NV
- November 4, 2010 - November 5, 2010
- Brokerage and Wealth Management 2010
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Our Perspective
The acquisition of Sterling Commerce both complements and fills gaps in IBM solution portfolio. IBM gets an agile multienterprise business-to-business managed services offering that operates in public or private cloud-computing environments. IBM also gains a de facto niche for large, secure file transfer in many financial institutions. Clients should take inventory of affected products and seek to restructure pricing and service-level agreements.Read More
Featured Analyst
Gareth Lodge works in TowerGroup's London headquarters as a Regional Research Leader covering European payments. Gareth joined TowerGroup with strong experience in the payments business. Most recently he worked for Voca, the payments processor providing ACH processing services in the United Kingdom. His experience covers business strategy, including new ventures, partnering, and ...
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