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Technology Executives Have a Need for Speed
Our editors asked experts across the financial services industry to predict the hot technology topics for their sectors in 2008. Despite some unique sector-specific challenges, universal themes emerged that span the insurance, banking and capital markets businesses. In the coming year, data management, business intelligence and risk management will be top of mind for financial services technology executives. But one premise unifies almost all of the predictions for next year: speed. IT executives are looking for the fastest ways to make effective business decisions about everything that goes on within their organizations and to deliver services to market.
Banks Will Revamp Payment Infrastructures
By Alenka Grealish, Managing Director, Banking Group, Celent (Boston)
Metlife Bank CTO Mark La Penta Talks About Holistic Risk Management
By Mark La Penta, Vice President, and Chief Technology and Operations Officer, MetLife Bank
High-Speed Market Data
By Robert Iati, Partner, TABB Group
Rapid Rollout of Services Will Differentiate the Market
By Julio Gomez, Global Head of Research, Financial Insights
Banks Should Consider Extending SOA With BPM
By John Macaluso, CTO and SVP, Strategy and Marketing, Fiserv CBS Worldwide
Financial Services Firms Will Need Faster Computational Power
By Tracy Issel, General Manager, Financial Services Group, United States, Microsoft
SAP's Falk Reiker Discusses Real-Time Operability Change
By Falk Reiker, Vice President of Banking Solutions Americas, SAP
IT, Data Governance Converge
By Teri R. Shaffer, Senior Manager of Information Security and Auditing Practice, Ernst & Young