TowerGroup Research Reports

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Building for a Better Tomorrow: Account-Opening Technology for Future Growth By: TowerGroup Banks that are not making investments in account-opening technologies right now take the risk that obsolete technology will become an obstacle to new deposit accounts or customer retention in the future. The \| more...	periodical	$1,750.00
Outsourcing Business Processes and IT in the Insurance Industry: Overview By: TowerGroup Spending on information technology within the insurance industry is expected to grow faster than spending as a whole, and in fact it is expected to grow at roughly twice the rate of industry spending overall. \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Electronic Wallets: The Conceptual Framework By: TowerGroup Electronic wallets vendors are proliferating across the e-commerce landscape. Since most financial services institutions (FSIs) plan to give the devices away, the question arises: Why are wallets popular now? The answer lies in FSIs' interest \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Outsourcing Service Providers for the Property and Casualty Insurance Industry By: TowerGroup In the next few years, outsourcing is an industry that is expected to enjoy boom times across industries globally. TowerGroup estimates double-digit growth for both IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing in P&C insurance. This \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Business-to-Business Commerce and Computer Networks in P & C Insurance By: TowerGroup Electronic Data Interchange is a well-established means of transacting business at large property and casualty insurers. Networks are complicated and expensive to establish, but once installed, are highly valued as a secure and efficient method \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
W.R. Hambrecht & Co.'s OpenIPO: A New Approach to Underwriting By: TowerGroup Initial public offerings do not easily land in the hands of retail investors. IPOs are traditionally allocated to institutional clients of underwriting firms and syndicates. However, the retail brokerage industry is driving a change in \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Financial Planning on the Internet—Client-Driven Customization Will Break the Advisor Monopoly By: TowerGroup The Internet has already begun changing how Americans manage their money. Now the Internet is starting to change how consumers approach their financial planning needs. Before the Internet, the consumer was largely dependent on consultation \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
GSTPA: Taking on the Daunting Task of Achieving Cross-Border STP By: TowerGroup The past few years have seen unprecedented change in the global securities market. Trade volumes have skyrocketed while average trade size has increased, investment instruments have expanded and become more complex, and trading strategies have \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Buy Side Connectivity: Driving FIX into the New Millennium By: TowerGroup Over the next several months, the capabilities of the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol will expand beyond its current equity, single-order use to other areas of investment management firms, such as fixed income and program \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Stock Transfer Agents Embrace the Internet By: TowerGroup Commercial stock transfer agents and registrars are usually banks or subsidiaries of financial service providers contracted by public companies (issuers) in the US and are highly regulated by multiple securities agencies. They maintain shareholder records \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Third-Party General Ledgers in Financial Services: The Leaders Emerge By: TowerGroup General ledger (GL) solutions have played a critical role in financial institutions for over three decades. Over time, the role of the GL has changed as management needs and technological advances converged. This TowerGroup Research \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Character Recognition Applications in Financial Services: The Never-Ending Challenge By: TowerGroup An ongoing challenge in financial service institutions is the capture of data provided by customers on paper documents, such as application forms and payment items, and conversion of this handwritten or printed data into machine-processable \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Banking in Western Europe: Strategy Meets Technology By: TowerGroup Financial services in Europe, particularly banking, are undergoing considerable change, much of which has been made possible through advances in information technology. Within Europe, the European Union is inexorably moving toward the development of a \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Realized Gains and Lost Potential of Mergers By: TowerGroup Industry consolidation is having an impact on information technology investments in all major global markets. At the same time, the extent to which new combinations achieve IT cost and efficiency gains is having a growing \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Imaging and the Web Revolutionize Document Management at Captive Automobile Finance Companies By: TowerGroup Captive automobile finance companies of major automobile manufacturers require document management solutions as a result of the large amount of paper and electronic data created, as well as the need to provide servicing and investigations \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Electronic Wallets: Various Vendors, Various Solutions By: TowerGroup With more than 11 vendors entering the cramped wallet space so far, this TowerGroup Research Note provides a scorecard for the e-wallet business, detailing which vendors—from IBM Corp. to small Silicon-Valley start-ups—are readying in e-wallets \| more... Search inside this report	10/1/1999	$1,750.00
Linux in the Financial Services Industry: Not Just Your Developer's Operating System By: TowerGroup Long considered the computer operating system (OS) for hobbyists and hackers, Linux has emerged as an alternative to the most popular computer operating systems, i.e., the Microsoft Windows family and UNIX. Linux has been making \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
US Mortgage Loan Originations: An Overview of Industry Spending and Trends By: TowerGroup After many years of relatively flat IT spending growth, new technologies and the Internet are beginning to drive both spending and spending growth rates higher for the origination side of the mortgage lending business. This \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
Global Housing Finance: An Overview of the Global Mortgage Loan Origination Market By: TowerGroup The global market for mortgage loan originations is approaching US$3 trillion annually. New technologies, the Internet, and high volatility in annual production are contributing to the increased use of technology and an increase in annual \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
Call Center Banking: Lessons Learned from the UK's Direct Banks By: TowerGroup Direct banks, defined as branchless retail banking businesses, continue to proliferate. Direct banking businesses are being established by banks and nonbanks alike. While most US-based direct banks have developed their strategies around an Internet-based delivery \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
Managing Customer Relationships: Who's Serving the Middle Market for Customer Relationship Management? By: TowerGroup Middle market banks in the US, those with between $3 billion and $50 billion in assets, are facing a considerable dilemma when they try to implement a CRM business strategy. The technology tools supporting CRM \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
Risk-Based Pricing in Residential Mortgage Lending: Where Art Meets Science! By: TowerGroup Risk-based pricing (RBP), or more accurately, attribute-based pricing, has been widely discussed in the mortgage industry for the last decade. Already in use to some degree in other areas of consumer lending, it has yet \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
The UK Migration to Chip for Credit/Debit Authorization: Modest Goals, Tough Sell By: TowerGroup The major banks of the United Kingdom, under the aegis of an industry group called the Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS), are currently engaged in adding an integrated circuit (IC) chip to the magnetic \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
The Changing Face of Banking in Western Europe By: TowerGroup Financial services in Europe, particularly banking, are on the brink of considerable change. With the European Union inexorably moving toward the development of a "true" single market, and the adoption by EU members of common \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
Integrated Solutions for Customer Relationship Management (CRM): What's Available Today? By: TowerGroup Integrated relationship management suites are relative newcomers to the market, but these solutions have great potential for furthering the adoption of CRM as a business strategy in financial services. Integrated relationship management suites provide the \| more... Search inside this report	11/1/1999	$1,750.00
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