James Gardner, director for retail banking in the global financial services group at Getronics, looks at the economics of BNP Paribas' recent on-demand computing deal with IBM and asks whether the bank might have got a better price from Amazon.
Traditionally, lines of business within investment banks have built their own application suites, tailored to the particular business process and asset classes handled. However, this "silo-based" approach is an obstacle to cross-asset trading and maintaining a large number of applications is very costly.
At Sibos 2006 in Sydney, financial messaging co-op Swift will unveil its strategy document for 2010, which focuses upon growing the corporate userbase, getting into derivatives and grabbing a slice of China, India and other emerging market economies. How effective is this strategy and what are its challenges? Chris Skinner takes a view.
Matthew Croxford of Eiger Systems explains why data validation has a key role to play in ensuring the success of the Faster Payments initiative
The move from OS/2 to Windows as the ATM operating system is not proving as smooth as banks and processors had hoped, states Martin Macmillan, marketing and business development director Level Four Software.
Peter Richards, global head of retail banking marketing at BT, on the role of remote advisors in the branch and at the call centre, and the bottlenecks preventing progress.
Chris Skinner rails against the poor quality of customer service in the typical British bank.
Chris Skinner looks at the many regulatory battles taking place in the financial markets around the world and wonders who will win.
A combination of Sepa and new developments in consumer electronics represent an opportunity for banks to ditch cash and paper-based payments once and for all, says Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, in a speech given in Brussels in late June.
In a speech to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, internal markets commissioner Charlies McCreevey outlines the Commission's proposals for improving cross-border clearing and settlement provision.
Broadband video-servicing is set to shake the foundations of retail banking says Chris Skinner.
Aneace Haddad, founder and chairman of payments software company Welcome Real-time, examines the growing merchant backlash against payment card interchange fees.