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ANZ's technology systems have been slammed in an internal review commissioned by the bank that warns a lack of IT investment could hit plans to become a regional superpower.
31 May 2011
Lloyds Banking Group has outlined plans to cut another 570 jobs and outsource hundreds more as part of its ongoing integration of Hbos.
18 March 2011
UK online bank first direct has adopted an array of bizarre tactics to keep football-crazy staff at their desks during the World Cup, including fancy dress days, giant inflatable footballs and staged 'streaking' events across the call centre.
16 June 2010
Average salaries rest comfortably in the six figures for data management and financial information professionals in North America and Europe, with those working for hedge funds best paid, according to a survey for the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the SIIA.
31 July 2009
Nasdaq OMX has appointed former Philadelphia Stock Exchange chief information officer William Morgan as senior vice president, global human resources.
11 December 2008
Spanish banking group Banco Sabadell has contracted with SAP for the supply and implementation of the vendor's ERP Human Capital Management system.
03 September 2008
Stewart MacKinnon has resigned as secretary general of the European Payments Council (EPC), citing differences of opinion about the role and direction of the EPC.
24 July 2008
Barclays Wealth says it is creating 800 back office jobs in response to increasing demand for its services and to support its expansion into new markets.
19 November 2007
California-based SuccessFactors says US bank Wachovia is rolling out its Web-based on-demand performance management software to over 100,000 employees.
18 April 2007
Mumbai-based Patni Computer Systems says it has completed implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system supplied by Oracle at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) which will be used to automate accounting and human resource management processes.
13 March 2007
Dutch investment banking group ABN Amro is introducing video conferencing and collaboration technology developed by HP across 12 key business units around the world.
05 March 2007
British banking group Lloyds TSB is outsourcing its human resources (HR) operations to offshore centres in India under a five year deal with UK-based IT services firm Xansa.
10 August 2006
Dutch bank ING has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IT services firm Getronics PinkRoccade to establish a joint venture that will deliver electronic invoicing and payment services to corporate firms in The Netherlands.
11 July 2006
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is relaxing regulations on the training and competence (T&C) of staff working in wholesale financial services firms despite its earlier warnings that organised gangs of criminals are infiltrating British banks to commit large scale frauds.
07 March 2006
The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) in the US has teamed with the University of Reading in the UK to launch the world's first degree on the regulation of financial markets, which has been developed to help fill an escalating demand for compliance staff.
25 January 2006
Bank of Ireland is outsourcing some of its training and purchasing operations to technology consultancy Accenture in the latest phase of its EUR120 million cost cutting programme.
12 December 2005
Standard Life is implementing e-learning technology from Dublin-based WBT Systems to provide its 9000 staff in the UK with online compliance and regulatory training.
11 April 2005
Mellon Financial is to sell its human resources consulting and outsourcing businesses to Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for $445 million in cash.
16 March 2005
Dutch banking group ABN Amro is axing 2850 jobs, including 1200 IT roles at its Netherlands and US operations, under restructuring plans that are expected to generate savings of EUR770 million by 2007.
16 December 2004
Deutsche Bank is axing 1920 jobs in Germany, mainly from its back office operations, over the next two years under plans to streamline administration and transaction processing operations and re-focus on customer-facing functions.
02 December 2004
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