GLG News by Core Banking Processing Solutions Evaluators and Purchasers

Two years ago, I saw a list of opinions regarding his/her/their “own grandiose challenge to the industry.”  In my opinion, it was more like an in-your-dreams list, so I saved it to see if a couple of years would produce any kind of change close to the dream.  The short answer is, it would...

Three conditions affecting the banking business seem quite real and have already become visible in the form of poor earnings reports from the giants  -  losses in investment banking, the credit crunch and subprime mortgages.  So it’s natural to look to the left and right for other industries...

Virtualization will help reduce the strain put on Data Centers by reducing power, air condition and space requirements.   What impact will it have on hardware producers as hardware becomes software?

In her "Five Trends That Will Shape The Business Process" report, Leaver and her team detail the five most significant trends in the business process and applications space for 2008. They include: Dynamic Business Applications; Web 2.0 and tech populism; software-as-a-service (SaaS); business process...

Citibank announced that it will cut back on its branch expansion strategy and may sell some recently opened branches due to high costs and/or poor results.  Any future expansion initiatives are likely to be limited to larger markets. What are the implications for Citibank's future in retail banking?...

 have completed 154 consultations for 67 investment firms in the past two years.  The analysts asked a lot of good questions, and none that I didn’t expect, about the performance of bank tech companies.  However, no one ever asked me about the competence of the sales force.  Not...

In my view, 2007 was not a Boston-Sports-Teams year for the banktech business.  There were some losers in our arena, as well as lots of worries;  a large number of lower stock prices for banks and techs;  a ninth inning attitude among bankers who achieved a good-enough system to get the...

Domestic core system vendors vs. International core system vendors.  Every week I read about a new sale made by either i-flex solutions, TEMENOS, Infosys, Misys, or Tata Consultancy, and they are mostly significant sales.  But their marketplace is not the U.S.  There’s a more active market...

Even though the Gartner research says most people won’t ever use mobile banking, people are using it. As the new generations are becoming bank customers, they are going to expect account access though their mobile devices. Mobile devices are what they are used to using, so if you want to get their business,...

As Web 2.0 takes hold and individual traders look to social networking sites to share information.