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Automating account reconciliation to deliver the double whammy: reduce costs and improve governance

By Ronan Bradley on February 6, 2009 7:58 AM 1

There is a natural tendency to focus on the cool or exciting problems where technology can be applied. Sometimes this may result in the overlooking of more mundane areas where even greater benefit can be extracted. And these are the... Read More..

Categories: Corporate Finance, Market trends

Has XBRL's time finally come with IBM's risk proposals?

By Ronan Bradley on December 17, 2008 7:20 AM 1

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The XBRL standard is being proposed by IBM as the vehicle to deliver much greater transparency in risk management. In an unrelated development, also after many years as an optional reporting format for many financial regulators, it is to become... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends

What will IT focus on in the post-credit crunch banking age?

By Ronan Bradley on October 7, 2008 7:17 PM 0

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We are clearly still in the maelstrom of the credit crunch and do not yet know what the banking sector will look like when things settle down - even in a little. Of course, this makes it hard to determine... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends

Financial IT: Can we cope with the next wave of regulation?

By Ronan Bradley on September 22, 2008 5:29 PM 0

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While the radical reshaping of the US investment banking industry is still a work in progress, it is probably reasonable to say that political realities will ensure that the pay-back for government intervention will be more regulation. And this will... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends

Saas: Life beyond CRM in financial services?

By Ronan Bradley on September 18, 2008 7:12 AM 0

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SaaS has been touted as the next big thing in the application space for quite a while (in fact pretty soon after ASP morphed to become SaaS in the early 2000s). Since then SaaS has become a popular choice for... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, cloud computing

Excel: The deadly poison for data integration

By Ronan Bradley on September 16, 2008 5:19 PM 1

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As people who have read my blogs over the last few years will know I have always been a strong proponent of a data centric view of the integration world (covered in more detail here for instance). However when we... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, Mash ups

OSS and the enterprise: Time to play fair or pay fair?

By Ronan Bradley on September 3, 2008 6:41 PM 1

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We still have a way to go before establishing an Open Source business model which works for smaller product categories (the largest categories – operating systems, databases etc – clearly have the scale to allow the IBM, Oracle, Sun, Red... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, Market trends, OSS, Open Source

OSS and the enterprise: Time to play fair or pay fair?

By Ronan Bradley on September 3, 2008 6:41 PM 1

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We still have a way to go before establishing an Open Source business model which works for smaller product categories (the largest categories – operating systems, databases etc – clearly have the scale to allow the IBM, Oracle, Sun, Red... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, Market trends, OSS, Open Source

DKW downsized: Consolidation in banking will damage IT innovation

By Ronan Bradley on September 1, 2008 5:49 PM 0

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That Dresdner Kleinwort will be radically downsized as part of the take-over of Dresdner by Commerzbank is a sad announcement on a number of fronts – not least of course for the individuals who will lose their jobs in the... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, Web2.0

The enterprise data center versus Amazon and the Elastic Block Store

By Ronan Bradley on August 27, 2008 9:00 AM 0

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The cloud computing bank wagon has been rolling pretty strongly recently and to be fair the bandwagon has been driven by some concrete announcements by major players. However, I think that we are running seriously ahead of ourselves if we... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends, Web2.0, cloud computing

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Automating account reconciliation to deliver the double whammy: reduce costs and improve governance

Has XBRL's time finally come with IBM's risk proposals?

What will IT focus on in the post-credit crunch banking age?

Financial IT: Can we cope with the next wave of regulation?

Saas: Life beyond CRM in financial services?

Excel: The deadly poison for data integration

OSS and the enterprise: Time to play fair or pay fair?

OSS and the enterprise: Time to play fair or pay fair?

DKW downsized: Consolidation in banking will damage IT innovation

The enterprise data center versus Amazon and the Elastic Block Store

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