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Financial Services: SEARCH RESULTS
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[ 1 ] Subcategory: Financial Services |
| Mobile Remittance 2010: Including Trends in Mobile Banking |
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The world's banking and financial retail infrastructure is characterized by two scenarios. One scenario is played out in some regions that have a saturated banking industry where the nature of business and society leaves no time for people to conduct transactions in a bank's premises. In other regions physical bank sites are few and far between. Mobile money transactions allow financial operations to be conducted under both scenarios.
Whether mobile remittance or mobile banking, the necessity of access to banking and transactions solutions is available immediately and securely. Is this a disruptive innovation for banks or a new opportunity for mobile operator to work together effectively with the financial industry. Who should take the lead in capitalizing on the new opportunities? While banks have combined with mobile operators to provide mobile money transaction services, some mobile operators function alone.
This report presents an analysis of global remittances. This includes the macroeconomic impact of regulations, the trends in global remittances and the factors affecting global remittances. Studies have been conducted on the major remittance corridors and major remittance markets. The report analyzes the mobile remittance market, beginning with the necessities of deploying a mobile money transaction service which is becoming a dominant force both for international and domestic remittance; with several case studies scrutinized. The technological aspect of mobile remittance is also comprehensively studied with several evolving business models and service models analyzed.
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[ 2 ] Subcategory: Financial Services |
| 2010 Trends to Watch: Financial Markets Technology |
Opportunities in the recoveryOne year on from the onset of the financial crisis, the phoenix of the financial markets sector has emerged from the flames. With the sector renewed in capital strength and risk discipline, 2010 looks set to see a focus on opportunities, rather than fire-fighting and survival. However, the crisis has not only changed the institutions themselves; it has also changed the landscape in which they operate, and 2010 is set to be a period of uncharted territory for the industry.
This report maps out the likely evolution of the sector, following the key forces that will shape the market and drive business strategy. In collaboration with Datamonitor’s Financial Services division, this report from Ovum’s Financial Services Technology team outlines the key changes in the market, explains which trends will have the biggest impact, and analyzes the implications of and opportunities produced by these developments.
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[ 3 ] Subcategory: Financial Services |
| Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value through Better Decision Making |
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This report provides a snapshot of foreign exchange-related management practices applied in companies around the world. Most firms manage their foreign exchange risks proactively and many have succeeded in avoiding “unexpected negative surprises” in reported profits and cash flows. Generally, firms are satisfied with financial hedging instruments offered in the market; they find them sufficient in terms of available choices, effective in reducing currency risks, and affordable.
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[ 4 ] Subcategory: Outsourcing Management |
| 2009 Top Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Vendors, Black Book Survey Results |
Who Are the Top 10 Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Vendors?This report present the results from the 2009 Black Book Finance & Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) survey. FAO nearly always includes business-critical high volume activities such as accounts payable and accounts receivable since their low level of customization means they transfer relatively easily to an outsourced providers processes and systems. CFOs like their providers to have specific industry knowledge and experience and 93.6% of FAO contracts are new.
Clearly, the leaders in the Black Book FAO survey of 2009 have demonstrated the expertise of market focus, vertical expertise and customer centricity, all of which presently influence and direct client renewals, service add-ons, and particularly, prospective client FAO interest.
Scope of This Research- The Finance and Accounting Outsourcing survey evaluates 350 contracts held by 1400+ top businesses measuring them against 18 key performance criteria
- The FAO services rated include Order-to-Cash, Compliance, Budgets, Treasury, Reporting, Accounting, Employee & HR Finances and Purchase-to-Payment
- Growth predictions are shown by FAO segment and are reported together with predictions for industry verticals
- Findings show that most FAO vendor/client relationships are new with fewer than 5% of contracts representing an established or renewed relationship
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[ 5 ] Subcategory: IT Spending |
| Commercial Banking Sub-Sector (Chapter 20) with Banking & Finance Sector Benchmarks (Chapter 4) |
This chapter provides selected IT spending statistics for the commercial banking sub-sector. Key IT spending benchmarks include:- The percentage of employees who use IT
- The number of PCs per user
- IT operational budget as a percentage of revenue
- IT spending per employee
- IT spending per user
- Personnel as a percentage of IT operational budget
- And more!
These statistics are based on 12 survey respondents, including several local, regional, super-regional, and national banks. Since the sample size is smaller than those of the industry benchmarks in the full IT Spending, Staffing & Technology Trends report, the actual data points for each statistic are shown, along with the median.
The IT spending data presented in this chapter allows commercial banking executives to make strategic decisions on IT budgets. Learn more about IT spending and IT trends.
This chapter is only available with Financial Services IT Spending, and the price includes both chapters.
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[ 6 ] Subcategory: IT Spending |
| IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks: Banking and Finance Sector Benchmarks - 2009/2010 (Chapter 4) |
The Banking and Finance Sector Benchmarks chapter from the 2009/2010 IT Staffing and Spending Benchmarks report reviews IT spending benchmarks for the banking and finance companies surveyed across all organizational sizes. The respondents in this sector include commercial banks, lenders, and other types of financial services organizations. The banks include several local, regional, super-regional, and national banks.
Key IT spending and staffing benchmarks for the banking & finance industries include:- IT Operational Budget as Percentage of Revenue
- IT Capital Budget Breakdown
- Spending Priorities with Greatest Increase and Decrease
- Ongoing Support versus New Initiatives Spending
- Ratio of Users to IT Staff
- IT Staffing Mix….and much more!
For a close-up view of IT spending in the banking sector, see IT spending commercial banking, which is available in combination with this chapter.
The IT spending data presented in this chapter will assist banking and finance executives in making strategic decisions on IT budgets. Learn more about IT spending and IT trends.
Insurance firms are not included in this chapter. Please see, IT spending insurance industry.
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[ 7 ] Subcategory: IT Spending |
| IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks: Insurance Sector Benchmarks - 2009/2010 (Chapter 5) |
The Insurance Sector Benchmarks chapter from the 2009/2010 IT Staffing and Spending Benchmarks report provides IT spending benchmarks for all insurance companies surveyed across all organizational sizes. The respondents in this sector this year include providers of life insurance, property and casualty insurance, auto insurance, workman’s compensation, marine insurance, professional and general liability insurance, disability insurance, reinsurance, and other types of insurance products.
Key IT spending and staffing benchmarks for the insurance sector include:- IT Operational Budget as Percentage of Revenue
- IT Capital Budget Breakdown
- Spending Priorities with Greatest Increase and Decrease
- Ongoing Support versus New Initiatives Spending
- Ratio of Users to IT Staff
- IT Staffing Mix….and much more!
The IT spending data presented in this chapter will assist insurance industry executives in making strategic decisions on IT budgets. Learn more about IT spending and IT trends.
This sector also includes medical insurance firms, but not health plans that are directly engaged in healthcare delivery. Healthcare providers are covered in IT spending healthcare.
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[ 8 ] Subcategory: Mobile Devices |
| Mobile Money Transfer Report 2009: Profiting from Cross-Border Remittance and Global Banking |
Mobile money transfer and m-payments have great potential due to the relationship between a mobile subscriber and their handset, where the mobile device is often with the end-user for most of their waking time. With mobile penetration reaching 100 per cent in many developed markets, the mobile phone will soon be in virtually everyone's pocket. Payments and banking are currently major areas of growth in the mobile world and these are set to become even more specialized than they are at the moment. Do you understand this market? Do you know how it will develop? Is this an issue that you need to act on and find out about now?
Read this exclusive management report to learn:- What different forms of mobile remittance are available and expected to appear in the future?
- Why is mobile potentially so important to banking and financial services, as well as economic development?
- When will mobile remittance become a truly global mass market proposition?
- How successful can these service propositions become?
Find out the answers to these and many other questions by buying this vital industry insight.
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[ 9 ] Subcategory: Financial Services |
| Great Expectations: SaaS Strategies in the Finance Organization |
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The Finance organization sees SaaS as increasingly critical to their evolving business goals, and is increasingly investing in SaaS for point financial processes as well as core systems of record. CFOs and other senior Finance executives within all types and sizes of user firms expect to use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to improve their abilities to meet critical business goals, including Finance’s abilities to play a more strategic role in business. In fact, Finance executives expect SaaS to enable improvement in all aspects of core and non-core Finance systems and operations.
This significant shift in the attitude and actions of senior Finance executives toward SaaS as strategic to business is a key aspect of Saugatuck Technology’s newest research study on SaaS Great Expectations: SaaS Strategies in the Finance Organization.
The report presents data, analysis, and recommendations from two research programs: Saugatuck’s 2008 annual Web survey of user executives’ SaaS and business strategies and activity; and an additional 2008 web survey of Finance executives, conducted by Saugatuck in partnership with the Finance Executives Research Foundation (FERF). The research also includes interviews with survey participants and leading SaaS providers.
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[ 10 ] Subcategory: IT Spending |
| IT Spending, Staffing and Technology Trends: Financial Services Sectors Benchmarks - 2008/2009 (Chapter 8) |
The 2009/2010 version of this report is available at this page
The Financial Services Sector Benchmarks chapter from the 2008/2009 IT Spending, Staffing & Technology Trends report reviews IT spending benchmarks for banking and financial services organizations. Survey respondents in this industry include:- Commercial banks (regional and super-regional)
- Lenders
- Security brokerage firms
- Other types of banking and finance organizations.
Insurance firms are not included in this chapter. For IT spending in the insurance industry, please see Chapter 9, Insurance Sector Benchmarks (CE-4101H). The Commercial Banking IT Spending sub-sector chapter, in combination with this chapter, provides a close-up view of IT spending within the commercial banking industry.
The IT spending data presented in this chapter allows financial services executives to make strategic decisions on IT budgets. Learn more about IT budgets and emerging IT trends.
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