Articles
06/28/2011
Rootbound: Digging Up IT Inefficiencies
The discipline of IT Portfolio Management can help untangle the inefficiencies and excessive costs of technology investments made over previous decades. The first time we were asked to map the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure of a large financial institution, the picture we drew could have been titled "Rootbound."
06/10/2011
Delivering on the Segmentation Promise
For a good decade or more, when it came to knowing the customer, the banking spirit was willing but the technology was weak. Now, new strengths in analytics make it possible for banks to rise to their long-held aspirations and develop customer relationships of sustainable value.
05/12/2011
VueLogic LLC and ABeam Consulting Partner to Combine VueLogic's Customer Analytics Engine With ABeam's Revenue Growth Consulting
VueLogic LLC, the Atlanta-based marketing analytics firm, and ABeam Consulting, the Dallas-based financial institutions consultancy, announce a multi-year agreement to bring an advanced customer analytics solution to financial institutions.
04/12/2011
Allocating IT Costs: Can Simpler Be Better?
Allocating IT costs across business lines can be an extremely complex and arduous task, but a simpler and more direct method is available.
01/10/2011
Going Global: Customers and Markets Won't Wait
While venturing into foreign markets can be lucrative for banks, they need to keep in mind five key myths about global banking, according to consultants Bill Stuart and Brian Evetts. "The globalization trend will continue for many years, but right now there's a land grab going on," they say. "Customers can't wait; emerging markets won't wait."
11/04/2010
Anticipate Needs of Globalizing Banks
As banks hurriedly play catch-up with their rapidly globalizing customers, they are finding themselves challenged by how to manage the tremendous technology change involved.
09/29/2010
Dodd-Frank Forces the Data-Quality Issue
How sustainable is a data management outlook that does not, at some point, say: "Inaccurate data is incompatible with executional excellence? If we don't believe the data foundation of our strategy, why would anyone commit to the strategy?"
08/31/2010
ABeam acquires U.S. Financial Consulting Firm Hazelwood Partners
ABeam Consulting, Ltd. announced today the completion of its acquisition of U.S. financial consulting firm Hazelwood Partners (Dallas, Texas; William J. Stuart, CEO).
07/09/2010
The Eight Levels of Vendor Management
Vendor management can be a perfunctory exercise to satisfy FDIC and OCC compliance checklists. Or it can be a richly rewarding discipline that furthers a bank's most strategic goals.
07/01/2010
U.S. Banks' Global Payments Issues
For U.S. banks, it is only half true that the world is flat. Their business customers are fast going global; that playing field is being leveled. But as the landscape flattens, country-by-country differences loom larger and riskier.
06/01/2010
Overdraft Fees: Widening the Compliance Lens
Complying with the recent changes in overdraft fee regulation requires utilizing customer information to build better pricing models and segment customers more effectively.