TowerGroup Research Reports

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2009 Wholesale Banking Top 10 Business Drivers, Strategic Responses, and IT Initiatives By: TowerGroup The continued turmoil in global financial markets will make market instability the most important business driver for wholesale banking in 2009. For most wholesale banks, 2009 will be characterized by a return to basics \| more... Search inside this report	10/20/2008	$1,750.00
UK Government Recapitalization (or Nationalization): No Peace, Some Reform, and Lots of Retrenchment By: TowerGroup Recapitalization of the UK banking sector by the government should be viewed as an economic rescue package rather than as a financial rescue package. The lack of liquidity affecting normal commercial and retail lending \| more... Search inside this report	10/20/2008	$1,750.00
Renaissance of Retail Wealth Management: A Beacon of Hope in the Current Fiscal Crisis By: TowerGroup TowerGroup's vision for retail brokerage firms has long been the continued migration to fee-based advisory models with an increasing bent toward the delivery of more holistic wealth management. Banks and the affiliated bank broker-dealers \| more... Search inside this report	10/13/2008	$1,750.00
Emerging Green Trends of Customers and Investors for FSIs: Lessons from the Consumer Goods Industry By: TowerGroup By 2013, 45% of the US population will be identified as sustainability-conscious consumers, making a green business strategy a must-have in the US financial services industry. The growing importance of social and environmental causes \| more... Search inside this report	10/13/2008	$1,750.00
Brand Preservation and Its Role in the Success of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Case Study By: TowerGroup Mergers and acquisitions often fall short of their promised results. Customers become dissatisfied or otherwise disillusioned as specific and unique brand value is lost through consolidation. Thus, the operational savings achieved often comes at the \| more...	10/6/2008	$1,750.00
Paper to Portal: Renewing Attention on Client Reporting in the Securities Industry By: TowerGroup Institutional clients are demanding of their investment managers, and they have the right to be. Trillions of dollars in assets allocated to traditional and alternative portfolios require tight coordination of money managers and external servicers \| more...	10/6/2008	$1,750.00
US Asset Managers Going Global: What's Driving Them, and What's Standing In Their Way? By: TowerGroup US asset managers have no choice but to go global. The highly competitive nature of the US asset management business, with the opportunity to manage foreign assets, especially in emerging countries and frontier markets, is \| more...	10/6/2008	$1,750.00
From Ties, to Tie-Dye, to Tattoos: Targeting Future Investors with Emerging Technologies By: TowerGroup Most brokerage and wealth management firms are squarely focused on capturing baby boomers as clients, and for good reason — they control or will inherit the vast majority of wealth in the United States. However, \| more...	10/6/2008	$1,750.00
Guilt by Association or Real Trouble? Outlook for US Life Insurers' Profitability and Spending By: TowerGroup The US life insurance industry is not immune to effects of the 2008 financial crisis; in fact, life insurers, which are among the largest institutional shareholders in the world, have written off major investments in \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/2008	$1,750.00
The TowerGroup Top 10: A Bumpy Flight, Landing, and Takeoff for the Financial Services Industry By: TowerGroup The world has been rocked by recent upheavals in the financial services industry. To avoid a global pandemic of losses and the demise of more institutions, regulators and leading players will no doubt redress the \| more... Search inside this report	9/29/2008	$1,750.00
Going for Gold in Mobile Financial Services: FSIs Add Triple-Play Strategies to Their Playbook By: TowerGroup As US financial services institutions (FSIs) gain more experience with mobile financial services, they are reviewing the combination of modalities they need to reach the full potential of dynamic customer interaction and new business growth. \| more... Search inside this report	9/29/2008	$1,750.00
Enhancing the Customer Experience: CRM in the US Community Bank Market By: TowerGroup Defining customer relationship management (CRM) as a business strategy for US-based community banks is not difficult, although widespread acceptance of a standard definition by bankers has been elusive. TowerGroup predicts that community banks in the \| more... Search inside this report	9/29/2008	$1,750.00
Scared New World: Tumult in the Capital Markets Will Transform the Securities Industry By: TowerGroup On September 14, 2008, Bank of America announced it was acquiring Merrill Lynch for $50 billion. On the heels of that news, Lehman Brothers announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This left two \| more... Search inside this report	9/26/2008	$1,750.00
Asset-Backed Securities: A Financial Structure Under Assault By: TowerGroup This TowerGroup ViewPoint focuses on the impact on credit cards of a 2008 proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for two accounting rules amendments governing asset securitizations: FAS 140 and FIN 46(R). It \| more... Search inside this report	9/26/2008	$1,750.00
That Was the Week That Was: Restructuring the Global Banking Industry One Hour at a Time By: TowerGroup The events of the week of September 15, 2008, are the most significant to hit the banking industry within the working lives of anyone reading this report. By the end of the week, the crisis \| more... Search inside this report	9/25/2008	$1,750.00
Case Study of a Shotgun Marriage: Wealth Management Implications of the BofA/Merrill Lynch Merger By: TowerGroup On September 8, 2008, Robert J. McCann, vice chairman and president of the Global Wealth Management group at Merrill Lynch, made a presentation at the Lehman Brothers Conference on the future of the Merrill Global \| more... Search inside this report	9/24/2008	$1,750.00
Mobile Banking and Payments, August 2008: Leaders, Laggards, and New Trends By: TowerGroup Recent announcements indicate that financial services institutions, payments processors, and technology suppliers are taking greater responsibility for shaping the potential of the mobile delivery channel as the future of consumer payments. This TowerGroup ViewPoint presents \| more... Search inside this report	9/22/2008	$1,750.00
US Public Transportation: An Important Payment Segment for Contactless Technology By: TowerGroup In 2008, approximately 60 million contactless cards are in circulation in the United States, serviced by approximately 200,000 merchants and accepted at over 1 million point-of-sale locations. Contactless payments represent less than 10% of cards \| more... Search inside this report	9/22/2008	$1,750.00
How the Massive Upheaval on Wall Street Will Impact the Investment Management Business By: TowerGroup Within a week, the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers, the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, and possible acquisitions of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs by larger entities means a wholesale restructuring of \| more... Search inside this report	9/22/2008	$1,750.00
Perceptions of IT Governance in the Global Securities Industry: 2008 IT Governance Survey, Part 1 By: TowerGroup Massive write-offs, staff layoffs, and slashed budgets are forcing securities and investment firms to do more with less despite continuously rising transaction volumes. Technology rationalization and consolidation across the enterprise become critical to ensure that \| more... Search inside this report	9/22/2008	$1,750.00
IT Decisions and Challenges in the Global Securities Industry: 2008 IT Governance Survey, Part 2 By: TowerGroup Making informed technology decisions has never been more challenging for securities and investment firms. Alternative approaches abound, vendors proliferate, and all too often IT management and the lines of business cannot agree on what will \| more... Search inside this report	9/22/2008	$1,750.00
The Road to Recovery: Are Regulatory and Industry Actions Just Wishful Thinking? By: TowerGroup Central bank actions, regulatory declarations, and better industry transparency provide admirable but incomplete solutions to the global financial crisis, but such efforts cannot prevent an industry determined to maximize short-term profits from falling victim to \| more... Search inside this report	9/22/2008	$1,750.00
Bullish on Bank Cards: Bank of America's Acquisition Brings Dimension to the High-End Market By: TowerGroup This TowerGroup ViewPoint assesses the implications for the card industry of the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America (BofA). It explains how the integration should be seamless and rapid, based on the existing \| more... Search inside this report	9/17/2008	$1,750.00
Realigning an Industry: New Structure of Capital Markets After Demise of Lehman and Sale of Merrill By: TowerGroup This TowerGroup ViewPoint assesses the implications for the capital markets industry of the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers and the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America. These two events, taking place virtually simultaneously \| more... Search inside this report	9/17/2008	$1,750.00
Microfinance: Too Small to Matter or Ready for Take-Off? By: TowerGroup Increased levels of funding in the microfinance sector is permitting greater numbers of the world's poor to access microcredit while innovative technology reduces high transaction costs that normally render the sector unattractive to traditional banks. \| more...	9/15/2008	$1,750.00
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