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  • Room to Grow for Social Media Usage in Financial Services
      Aug 20, 2010
      The benefits reaped by asset managers using social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, and YouTube are numerous.
     
  • Demand for Cross - Asset Trading Platforms and Algorithms Will Ascend
      Aug 02, 2010
      In order to keep pace with the evolution of the trading desk, buy-side traders are all set to adopt innovative ways to trade traditional assets classes; new listed derivatives and structured products, electronically.
     
  • FSI Focuses on Strategizing Supply Chain Management
      Jul 06, 2010
      Supply chain management is a complex practice and problems related to cash management only add to the overall risk.
     
  • Channel Innovation: Enhancing Customer Experience at Every Point of Contact
      Jun 09, 2010
      With continuous changes in the banking business environment and the ever-growing competition in the financial services sector, technology and innovation are domains where banks can create opportunities and pose threats.
     
  • Liquidity Risk - An Issue Financial Institutions Cannot Afford to Ignore
      Jun 07, 2010
      2010 started with the recovery in process, with financial institutions focusing heavily on risk management to evade any further shocks to themselves and the financial industry.
     
  • Growing Interest in Pre-Trade Analytics
      May 27, 2010
      Vendors give high importance to pre-trade analytics before providing trading tools to the investment community. Although it has become a key part of buy-side’s checklist, it is more of a sell-side marketing tool.
     
  • Procurement Outsourcing Market: Test the Waters before Diving In
      May 26, 2010
      With the recovery of the global economy, financial services firms are struggling hard to sustain themselves. Pressures to achieve immediate and measurable cost reduction are leading financial services firms to outsource an increasing number of processes. Procurement processes are no longer an exception.
     
  • Moving Towards a Better Business Model: A Response to a Shifting Retail Banking Landscape
      May 19, 2010
      The marked shifts in the global financial and economic environment have brought about radical changes in the retail banking landscape.
     
  • Outsourcing Relationship Management Demands Increased Attention from Buyers
      May 11, 2010
      In addition to relationships with employees, suppliers and customers, companies need to effectively manage relationships with their outsourcing providers.
     
  • Technology: Topic of Concern in the Ever-changing AML Landscape
      May 10, 2010
      The wide range of new regulations after the financial crisis have given way to an emergence of convoluted anti-money laundering (AML) technologies, which have become a necessity to comply with these regulations.
     
  • Escalation in M&A deals for Q1 2010
      Apr 22, 2010
      Quarter 1, 2010 not only witnessed escalations in Merger and Acquisition deals but also improved confidence levels of financial firms in economic stability.
     
  • Social Media Channel: Much More Than Just Marketing
      Mar 30, 2010
      Like many other verticals, the financial services industry has also witnessed an explosive growth in its social media marketing activities in the recent past.
     
  • Property & Casualty Insurance: Optimism on Technology Applications
      Mar 08, 2010
      Every single economic fluctuation that steers the markets through different crests and troughs will leave its impact on the health of insurance firms.
     
  • Mixed outlook for the US economy
      Feb 26, 2010
      In recent days, comments from senior officials and experts have painted a positive outlook for the U.S. economy, but doubts still remain about the strength of the US recovery.
     
  • Public Private Investment Program and Sinking Investor Confidence
      Feb 24, 2010
      As bailout funds run out with the passage of time, concerns about returns or increase in purchasing power seem to be abating.
     
  • Bank taxes and investor sentiments
      Jan 25, 2010
      Obama’s words have created a furor amidst US investors. Soliciting for taxes is not something which is threatening investors directly.
     
  • Flashback to past recession
      Jan 20, 2010
      United States of America is moving through a phase in which it has walked previously at least 5 times in the last five decades.
     
  • M&A activity in 2010 likely to grow slowly
      Jan 15, 2010
      Finance industry executives and investment bankers expect that M&A activities in 2010 rise be roughly the same or slightly above 2009 levels, as investors are likely to remain conservative and risk averse as the global economy recovers slowly.
     
  • Investors face uncertainty due to mixed global economic signals
      Jan 13, 2010
      As the markets enter the first earnings season of 2010, economic indicators from across the world paint a mixed picture as far as the economic recovery is concerned.
     
  • Bank Deposits and Business Models
      Dec 30, 2009
      “Savings” – a word frequently quoted and synonymous with the economic stability of a country, is gaining popularity among corporates and influencing their decisions.
     
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