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IBM - Financial services resources
IBM Financial Services provides e-business solutions for banking, securities and insurance companies. We offer leading edge software, hardware, services, and consulting to help your financial services company succeed. Review executive reports, white papers and other materials that provide information about IBM products, services and solutions pertaining to the financial services industry.
- Component business models for financial markets: Making specialization real
Redefine your competitive position in today’s financial markets industry while achieving the benefits of scale, flexibility and efficiency. This quick read from the IBM Institute of Business Value explores how component business models for financial markets can help drive specialization and focus. - IBM Financial Markets Industry Models: Greater insight for greater value
IBM Financial Markets Industry Models can create a foundation to help your entire company quickly respond to changing business demands while meeting regulatory requirements and enhancing the client experience. Read this paper to learn more about the benefits of IBM Financial Markets Industry Models. - The specialized enterprise: A fundamental redesign of firms and industries
By eliminating the tradeoffs executives have traditionally been forced to make between differentiation, responsiveness and efficiency, the specialized enterprise will fundamentally reshape firms and industries for the 21st century. This IBM Institute for Business Value quick read explores the benefits of specialization. - Unlocking the value of account opening with component business modeling
To help ease cost and revenue concerns, leading banks are looking to transform account opening activities at the enterprise level. Component business modeling allows banks to launch this transformation and substantially improve efficiency levels by fundamentally restructuring today's siloed organization. - From sunrise to sunset
For global insurers, finding a needle in a haystack is easy compared to sifting through millions of digital files in search of just the right bits to satisfy requests pertinent to legal and regulatory issues. Technology-driven information lifecycle management provides a cost-efficient way to find more needles. - Unlocking hidden value in insurance systems
As customer needs shift and IT capabilities evolve, insurance companies are under increasing pressure to become more innovative—both in terms of their business model and their operations. - Shining a light on dark liquidity: Managing liquidity, anonymity and transparency
When reviewing competitive strategies, many financial markets firms are evaluating their capabilities for accessing dark liquidity sources. This paper explores many options they can consider to find and leverage dark liquidity while supporting changing requirements and complex trading strategies. - Surviving climate change in the property and casualty industry
The property and casualty (P&C) industry is facing significant change. Shifting demographics, evolving consumer expectations and new distribution channels are dramatically impacting how policyholders think, interact and work with their insurance companies. - Trading technology for Exchanges: High-performance, low-latency, cost-efficiency
Being responsible for an Exchange’s core business, its revenue, costs and the technology that supports it is a daunting challenge. This paper explores how IBM’s Exchange technology can help deliver the performance you need in good times and in bad; now and in the future. - Client Data Management: The holy grail for financial market institutions
Financial markets firms face growing pressure to on-board clients faster, while still complying with complex layers of regulation. This paper explores the benefits of holistic client data management to ensure compliance, improve operational efficiency and expand your client relationship management capabilities. - Cultivating the groundwork in Europe
Spurred in part by the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative, Europe is moving steadily toward tighter convergence of its physical and financial supply chains. Yet, in a 2007 IBM Payments Convergence study, twenty leading European banks and corporations did not always see eye-to-eye on the topic. - Get global. Get specialized. Or get out.
Financial markets firms have historically avoided the commoditization trap by innovating to create new products and services. The bulk of their impressive growth has typically come from mature markets. - The evolution of financial markets to application maintenance outsourcing
In the financial arms race, to have the fastest market data, smartest trading algorithms and most sophisticated risk programs, financial markets firms invest billions of dollars annually in applications as part of a strategy aimed at giving their clients every advantage. - The rise (and fall?) of hedge funds
While speed and transparency are driving non-traditional sources of value in global financial markets, demand is spiking for new forms of money management – chief among them hedge fund and hedge fund ''lite'' products. - Why insurers are getting smart about intelligence
Gaining greater knowledge, through the more effective use of information is providing true differentiation for today’s leading insurance companies. More insurers are investing in gaining more comprehensive knowledge about their customers, products/services, employees, and overall company performance. - Latency: The Inside Market Data round table
Join IBM’s Phil Enness and Doug Dworkin as they discuss the impact of latency on the bottom line with a group of industry experts from exchange and analyst firms and market data solution vendors in this Inside Market Data Special Report for SIFMA Tech, June 2007. - Streamlining foreign exchange and money market trading
Technology has made the trading process faster and more efficient, but banks and their clients often remain disconnected. This paper explores how Valuta-Direct, an automated online trading platform from IBM, can help you and your clients reconnect and react in near real time to market shifts, maximizing profitability. - Porting financial markets applications to the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture
Learn how to benefit from the latest generation of hybrid computing, the IBM® BladeCenter® QS2X with powerful Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell /B.E.) engines to accelerate your business. - Thunderhead straight-through processing for trade confirmations
The global over-the-counter derivatives market is growing rapidly, putting pressure on firms to improve efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance. This paper shows how IBM and Thunderhead can help by changing derivatives transaction
