TowerGroup Research Reports

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The Implications of the French Delaying the Launch of SEPA Direct Debit By: TowerGroup The April 2009 announcement by the French National SEPA Committee, La Federation Bancaire Francaise, and Banque De France regarding the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) is an important indication that SEPA is changing European payments. \| more... Search inside this report	6/1/2009	$1,750.00
Case Study in Mobile Brokerage: ETrade's First-Mover Advantage By: TowerGroup* TowerGroup expects demand for mobile offerings in the United States to rise as the online brokerage market grows from 28 million accounts in 2009 to 33.1 million by the end of 2012. Including \| more... Search inside this report	6/1/2009	$1,750.00
The Future of OTC Derivatives: Fighting Through Five Key Challenges By: TowerGroup Regulators around the globe will have a profound impact on the over-the-counter (OTC) market, and broker-dealers will have to change market practice or the regulators will implement even more stringent controls. Despite a \| more... Search inside this report	6/1/2009	$1,750.00
Proposed Short-Sale Restrictions: Five Options Add Up to Big Costs for Compliance By: TowerGroup The security-specific, temporary approach to restrict short selling securities, also called the circuit breaker approach, will impact exchanges most, but broker-dealers and their vendors also must make systems changes to curtail messaging traffic. \| more... Search inside this report	6/1/2009	$1,750.00
Ready for Prime Time: Emerging Opportunities for Hedge Fund Administrators By: TowerGroup The continued decline in global hedge fund assets expected for 2009 will start to reverse in 2010 as institutional investors regain confidence in alternative investments. Hedge fund administrators will take business away from \| more... Search inside this report	6/1/2009	$1,750.00
Transformational Technology and Organizational Change: Insurance Carriers' Chicken-or-Egg Question By: TowerGroup To succeed in their business, insurance carriers must adopt five leading technologies: electronic signature, business process outsourcing, predictive analytics, business process management, and knowledge management. Transformational technology allows carriers to address cost, customers' \| more... Search inside this report	5/25/2009	$1,750.00
Results of the US Bank Holding Company Stress Tests: The Die Is Cast! By: TowerGroup It is exceedingly rare for a bank holding company to create a single-exercise analysis with the same rigor and exhaustiveness the US regulators' stress tests used, and the tests' results were profoundly impacted by asset \| more... Search inside this report	5/25/2009	$1,750.00
UDAP Flap: How Do US Credit Card Banks Respond to a Changing Regulatory and Business Environment? By: TowerGroup Government action, whether it takes the form of executive moral suasion, legislative action, or direct regulation, is exacerbating the business trends currently afflicting the US credit card industry. The current business trends — \| more... Search inside this report	5/25/2009	$1,750.00
US Banks: Standing at the SEPA Crossroads By: TowerGroup The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) will change the way payments are made in Europe forever, which means that anyone making payments in or with the region also must make changes. The European \| more... Search inside this report	5/18/2009	$1,750.00
Mergers & Acquisitions: Choosing the Right Consultants to Preserve and Protect Stakeholder Value By: TowerGroup Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity will become a key strategy for financial services institutions (FSIs) of all sizes through 2012, leaving crisis-forced mergers to the past. M&A consultants can preserve the economic \| more... Search inside this report	5/18/2009	$1,750.00
Broker vs. Advisor Regulation: It's the Principle of the Thing By: TowerGroup TowerGroup anticipates a mix of rules-based and principles-based regulation will finally settle the definition of broker and advisor. The best scenario for regulatory reform entails examination of registered investment advisors (RIAs) by the \| more... Search inside this report	5/18/2009	$1,750.00
The Who, Why, Where, When, and How of Breakaway Brokers By: TowerGroup Brokers are breaking away from large broker-dealers for four primary reasons: desire to gain greater control of their business, need for enhanced wealth potential, damage to the large firm business model, and restructuring of the \| more... Search inside this report	5/18/2009	$1,750.00
From Niche Play to Mainstream Delivery Channel: US Mobile Banking Forecast, 2008-13 By: TowerGroup Adoption of mobile banking in the United States is increasing because a growing number of banks are offering mobile banking and the popularity of smart phones is rising. TowerGroup predicts that, by 2013, \| more... Search inside this report	5/11/2009	$1,750.00
Using ISOs to Distribute Remote Deposit Capture Services: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse? By: TowerGroup Independent service organizations (ISOs) are targeting remote deposit capture (RDC) as an add-on service for existing merchant credit and debit card processing relationships. The growth in ISO-provided RDC highlights the disintermediation risk to \| more... Search inside this report	5/11/2009	$1,750.00
Reach Out and Touch Someone? Impact of the Financial Crisis on Voice Trading and the Trading Turret By: TowerGroup Trading firms are under pressure to achieve cost savings upward of 20%, and one way to reduce costs is to change their turret procurement strategies. TowerGroup recommends that securities firms adopt six new strategies \| more... Search inside this report	5/4/2009	$1,750.00
Banks Supporting Health Care Automation: Improving the Revenue Cycle for Health Care Providers By: TowerGroup The US health care industry will undergo a revolution in automation before 2014. Health care providers represent an important market segment for banks' wholesale revenue streams. Banks have relevant technology, experience, and expertise \| more... Search inside this report	5/4/2009	$1,750.00
Positive Deposit Flows Happen: Hot Money or the Start of a Beautiful Relationship? By: TowerGroup The flight of consumer funds into insured bank deposits continues unabated with a noticeable increase in volume during the fourth quarter of 2008. Since the meltdown of the secondary market for securitizing loans resulting \| more... Search inside this report	5/4/2009	$1,750.00
Teller Automation Vendors: Targeting Midtier and Community Banks in the United States By: TowerGroup TowerGroup estimates that the total US market for refreshed teller automation technology, including hardware, software, and professional services, will grow from $152 million (USD) in 2009 to $154 million by 2013. Midtier and community \| more... Search inside this report	4/27/2009	$1,750.00
Anti-Money Laundering Today: Consistent Challenges, Converging Offerings, Burgeoning Opportunities By: TowerGroup In 2009, money laundering accounts for 2% to 5%, or $1.3 to $3.2 trillion (USD), of world gross domestic product (GDP) and is growing at a compound annual rate of 6.5%. Regulators are demanding \| more... Search inside this report	4/27/2009	$1,750.00
Managing Systemic Risk: A New Era for Financial Services By: TowerGroup Losses arising from systemic risk amount to trillions of dollars across the financial services industry and will continue to damage the flow of trade and services in the global economy. Durable stability requires financial \| more... Search inside this report	4/27/2009	$1,750.00
IT Spending in North American Consumer Banking Units (2008-12): Beware the Dips in the Road By: TowerGroup The current global recession has put pressure on North American IT spending in consumer banking units such that TowerGroup estimates growth will be relatively flat, moving from $30.0 billion (USD) in 2008 to $32.3 billion \| more... Search inside this report	4/27/2009	$1,750.00
Global Catastrophe Management: Coping with Growing Exposure and Less Financial Backing By: TowerGroup The Asia-Pacific region's changes in population concentration combined with its propensity for natural catastrophic events represent points of potential weakness for primary carriers and reinsurers. In the United States, population concentration in catastrophe-prone zones \| more... Search inside this report	4/20/2009	$1,750.00
The Deposits Come Marching In: Account Initiation in a Multichannel Environment By: TowerGroup As deposits grow at record levels, banks' opportunity to build customer loyalty is at risk because of outdated technology and inconsistency between the delivery channels. Banks often spend IT dollars on Internet banking and \| more... Search inside this report	4/20/2009	$1,750.00
Revitalize the Credit Card Pre-Charge-off Collection Process and Improve the Bottom Line By: TowerGroup Based on current bank card delinquency trends, TowerGroup expects that 2009 net charge-offs for Visa, MasterCard, American Express US, and Discover Card US could exceed $71 billion (USD), which would be more than a 30% \| more... Search inside this report	4/20/2009	$1,750.00
Open Source for Institutional Brokerage: Tough Times Demand Open Minds By: TowerGroup TowerGroup research indicates that, as a result of steep cuts in IT spending and expected slow spending growth in the future, securities firms will be turning to open source code for software development. The \| more... Search inside this report	4/20/2009	$1,750.00
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