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Analytics show Cyber Monday sales up 27%
Thanks to analytics predictions, retailers rolled out online sales and promotions earlier this year resulting in $1.5b in sales, a large boost over last year’s.
Africa’s rapid growth offers banks opportunities in both transaction and retail banking
Date: Nov 06, 2012
Author: Baron Laudermilk
Categories: China, Core Banking, Industry Outlook, Mobile Banking, Retail Banking, Rmb, Technology & Operations, Trade Finance, Transaction Banking
Keywords: Standard Bank, Simon Freemantle, Rajesh Mehta, Citibank, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wizzit Bank, Bank of Athens, Misys, IBM
Emergence of “megacities” across Africa and rapid growth within the continent expected to bring about myriad of opportunities for banks in trade finance and mobile banking.
Risk sharing pays dividends for RCBC’s new core banking system implementation programme
Date: Nov 01, 2012
Author: Carol Wheatcroft
Categories: Core Banking, Philippines, Technology & Operations
Keywords: RCBC, Dennis Bancod, Lorenzo Tan, Infosys, IBM, Oracle, Fiserv, Fidelity, Callatay & Wouters, Linux, Business Analytics
Dennis Bancod, CIO of RCBC discusses how his experience with two previous core banking system implementations influenced his most recent approach at RCBC.
Kookmin Bank targets work process innovation through smart branch concept
Date: Oct 24, 2012
Author: Research
Categories: Branch Banking, Channels, Customer Centricity, Innovation, Retail Banking, South Korea, Technology & Operations
Keywords: Kookmin Bank, Kang Jin Seop, Branch Innovation, Customer Engagement, Smart Branch, Self-Service Operations, J2EE, IBM
With the introduction of its smart branch, Kookmin Bank enables staff to spend 70% of their time on sales and advisory services.
More stringent regulations require Taiwanese banks to better manage customer data
Date: Oct 15, 2012
Author: Baron Laudermilk
Categories: Data & Analytics, Data Management, Operational Risk & Security, Regulation, Taiwan, Technology & Operations
Keywords: E.Sun Bank, Wan-Li Hsieh, Personal Data Protection Act, CRM, Unica, IBM, Datamart, Netezza, MPP, Predictive Analytics
Wan-Li Hsieh, CIO of E.Sun Bank discusses the consequences of Taiwan’s Personal Data Protection Act as well as the bank’s data consolidation strategy.
DataWorld 2012: Towards greater bank cost-efficiency and process optimisation
Date: Oct 10, 2012
Author: Levina Lim
Categories: Data & Analytics, Data Management, FSI Customer Relationship Management
, Risk & Performance
Keywords: The Asian Banker, DataWorld 2012, Tony Chew, Philip Winckle, Oliver Chen, Eric Sandosham, Citibank, PECDC, Big Data, Basel III, Solvency II, IBM
The Asian Banker’s DataWorld 2012 will address utilisation of social and predictive analytics as well as the impact of regulations on data and analytics, amongst various important issues.
Should banks engage in real-time marketing?
The proceedings of the teleconsultation session held with leading data & analytics practitioners on the practical issues, opportunities and challenges of engaging in real-time marketing.
Industry players must reach consensus on SOA definition
Date: Aug 29, 2012
Author: John Schlesinger
Categories: Innovation, Technology & Operations
Keywords: SOA, Temenos, John Schlesinger, Application Development, Banking Architecture, Integration, Interaction, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Banque Libano-Francaise, SaaS
John Schlesinger, chief architect at Temenos, feels that the term ‘SOA’ is being bandied around far too much in banking, tarnishing the image of the pioneering architecture when projects go wrong.
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