TowerGroup Research Reports

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The April 2009 G-20 Summit: High Aspirations for Global Financial Stability By: TowerGroup The proposal by the Group of 20 to inject $1.1 trillion (USD) into global projects is a necessary first step to promote economic recovery, but true recovery depends wholly on more organic growth. Although \| more... Search inside this report	4/14/2009	$1,750.00
Liquidity Risk Management: The Next Global Battleground in the Financial Services Industry By: TowerGroup Regulators will demand that financial services institutions (FSIs) include managing liquidity risk as a cornerstone of integrated risk management as global financial systems recover. Intrusive oversight of liquidity risk management by regulators will constrain \| more... Search inside this report	4/13/2009	$1,750.00
Dropping the Regulatory Hammer: Ten Impending Regulations in US Securities and Investments By: TowerGroup The US securities and investments business faces the biggest change in regulatory law since the Great Depression, and it encompasses almost every line of business and every functional area. The greatest regulatory attention today \| more... Search inside this report	4/13/2009	$1,750.00
How Will the Credit and Liquidity Crisis Transform Global Mortgage Funding, Channels and Technology? By: TowerGroup The mortgage crisis is having disparate impacts by country: Australian, UK, and US mortgage markets are undergoing significant restructuring, but Canada, Germany, and Japan have been far less hurt by subprime defaults. The huge \| more... Search inside this report	4/13/2009	$1,750.00
Impact of the PSD on Small Business Payment Services By: TowerGroup Micro-enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 99% of all European Union (EU) enterprises, employ 67% of the workforce, and generate almost 20% of revenue from exports. The Payment Services Directive (PSD) gives \| more... Search inside this report	4/13/2009	$1,750.00
Mobile Banking and Payments, March 2009: Leaders, Laggards, and New Trends By: TowerGroup Despite the overall slowdown in technology investments globally, the mobile payments market remains a magnet for investment and innovation. For mobile payments offerings, a move away from country-specific or bank-specific point solutions to cross-border \| more... Search inside this report	4/13/2009	$1,750.00
After Boom and Bust: Navigating the Credit Card Industry into the Next Economic Cycle By: TowerGroup Business models for predicting changes in behavior and economic stress failed to protect credit card issuers from the recession that began in 2008, and their business assumptions are untested for the economy that will ensue. \| more... Search inside this report	4/13/2009	$1,750.00
Fidelity Information Services Acquires Metavante: This Is No April Fools' Joke By: TowerGroup The purchase of Metavante Technologies, Inc., by Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) for $2.94 billion creates a potentially dominant player in the US financial services IT solutions market, particularly in the payments solutions space. \| more... Search inside this report	4/10/2009	$1,750.00
Update: Core Deposit Systems at the Top 100 US FSIs By: TowerGroup The four leading vendors of deposits systems — CSC, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Fiserv, and Metavante — collectively hold a 75% market share of the systems in use at the top 100 US financial \| more... Search inside this report	4/6/2009	$1,750.00
Executing a Global Commercial Cards Program: Best Practices for Today's Environment By: TowerGroup Banks that serve mid- to large-market commercial clients need to begin planning for multiple-region commercial cards issuance if they have not already started. Going global can get complicated, but there are many options for \| more... Search inside this report	4/6/2009	$1,750.00
The Enemy Within: The Threat of First-Party Fraud and Cardholder Abuse in a Weak Economy By: TowerGroup A consequence of economic recession is increased credit loss for card issuers when cardholders fail to make payments because of disruption to their employment, net worth, or cash flow. Credit issuers should be on \| more... Search inside this report	3/30/2009	$1,750.00
UK Bank Recapitalization, Chapter 2: Long-Term Impacts By: TowerGroup The UK government will require three to five years to restore the region's banking system and its major domestic banking institutions to a position where they no longer require state support. Capitalization measures to \| more... Search inside this report	3/30/2009	$1,750.00
Consumer Finance Collection in UK, Ireland & Spain: Sweet Spot for IT Vendors in the Current Economy By: TowerGroup Western European financial services institutions' expenses for collection technology and services are expected to double by 2012 as historical underinvestment strains banks' operational capabilities. The bursting of the housing price bubble has left the \| more... Search inside this report	3/16/2009	$1,750.00
US Commercial Cards: Safe Haven in Heavy Weather for Issuing Banks By: TowerGroup The economic crisis has hit the US consumer payment cards market hard, but growth in commercial cards should continue in 2009, barring an actual depression. Historically, commercial cards — plastic payment cards issued to \| more... Search inside this report	3/16/2009	$1,750.00
Boosting Small Business: The Impact of Government Stimulus Plans on Small Business Lending By: TowerGroup In response to declines in Small Business Administration (SBA) loan volume, the US Congress, Treasury Department, and Federal Reserve Board have implemented measures to spur new small business lending. Government stimulus plans do not \| more... Search inside this report	3/16/2009	$1,750.00
Catch Me If You Can: How $9 Million Was Stolen in 49 Cities in 30 Minutes By: TowerGroup Hackers are getting increasingly brave about interfering with repositories of cardholder data, not only stealing information from systems but also inserting malicious code into them to gain access to enormous sums of cash. The \| more... Search inside this report	3/9/2009	$1,750.00
Stress Testing and Scenario Modeling: Two Challenging and Dynamic Extensions to Risk Management By: TowerGroup The core value of stress testing lies in helping financial services institutions (FSIs) manage risk, but governments and regulators will use it to forecast the need for infusion of capital. Leading-edge technologies must provide \| more... Search inside this report	3/9/2009	$1,750.00
Understanding Securities Industry Risk by Using the TowerGroup Risk Management Matrix By: TowerGroup Globalization, increasingly complex products, and an abundant use of leverage are some of the factors that have changed the nature, scope, and intensity of risk in the securities industry. TowerGroup has identified the top \| more... Search inside this report	3/2/2009	$1,750.00
Lights-Out Processing: Elements of Mortgage Origination and Fulfillment Systems for the Future By: TowerGroup Mortgage lenders will add to their existing systems a suite of lights-out processing capabilities that will allow them to handle many loans without human involvement. Exception handling and customer service will remain important tasks \| more... Search inside this report	3/2/2009	$1,750.00
What Ever Happened to the "Branch of the Future"? A Global Perspective By: TowerGroup No single "successful" model exists for banks' "branch of the future"; it will take different forms in different markets and regions. In the future, branches will be tightly integrated with other delivery channels, allowing \| more... Search inside this report	3/2/2009	$1,750.00
Deposits: A Critical Source of Liquidity and an Impetus for Financial Product Innovation By: TowerGroup Deposits, especially retail deposits, will be a key source of liquidity and revenue for banks in 2009 and beyond. Governments and regulatory agencies are strengthening depositor protections and providing fiscal incentives for consumers to save \| more... Search inside this report	3/1/2009	$1,750.00
Noncash P2P Payments: Checks in Decline Still Rule the Roost By: TowerGroup TowerGroup estimates the gross dollar volume (GDV) of the US noncash person-to-person (P2P) market in 2008 was $1.1 trillion, composed of over 3 billion transactions. In 2008, checks represented over $1.013 trillion of the \| more... Search inside this report	2/23/2009	$1,750.00
Protectionism: How Good Intentions Could Spawn a Dangerous Reincarnation in Financial Services By: TowerGroup If governments worldwide react to the economic downturn by using protectionism, the approach could lead to short-term gains in domestic economies yet stifle longer-term financial innovation, exacerbating global recovery and the advance of human society. \| more... Search inside this report	2/16/2009	$1,750.00
Lower Costs Enable European Trading Venues to Gain Market Share from Exchanges By: TowerGroup Multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) relationships are critical in all segments. MTFs will continue to erode market share of traditional exchange trading venues, albeit gradually, as their substantially lower transaction costs and increasing concentration of \| more... Search inside this report	2/16/2009	$1,750.00
Remote Deposit Capture Risk Management Regulatory Guidance: Implications for Wholesale Banking By: TowerGroup The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) guidance on remote deposit capture (RDC) risk contains prescriptions for assessing individual customer risk, including onsite reviews of high-risk customer environments. The FFIEC guidance references existing security \| more...	2/9/2009	$1,750.00
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