GLG News by Core Banking Processing Solutions Evaluators and Purchasers

IT spending will continue to in crease in the financial services sector; Financial services are far too competitive to not invest in technology

Intuit Inc. (INTU) and Electronic Clearing House Inc., (ECHO), have signed another definitive agreement for Intuit to acquire ECHO. Under the terms of this agreement, Intuit will pay $17 per share in cash in exchange for each share of ECHO common stock, including shares tied to options. The total purchase...

Banking, mortgage, capital markets and other industry participants are comparing the current “subprime” mortgage market meltdown to the U.S. Savings and Loan crises whose roots were caused by archaic deposit and loan regulations and nurtured under the Reagan administration’s hands off regulatory watch...

IBM and Cisco both experienced a major slowdown in IT spending from the US financial services sector in their most recent quarters. Five months after the start of the sub-prime meltdown, many believe that financial stocks’ fundamentals could still get worse. This will translate into lower IT spending...

As if there isn’t enough bad news about the economy, here I am adding to the heap before it even happens. As much as I don’t like bad news, what’s worse is bad news that comes as a surprise. So be prepared. Just follow the facts, and then draw your own conclusions. We may see the bank tech sector face...

Once again, I first must confess to a bias before making this case. “Big” by itself has never impressed me. “Big and capable” is another matter. So when I tell you that small banks have better technology than the giants, I’m ready to defend my statement with facts. I believe that there is better technology...

With excess cash from the seperation, what are the possible acquisition opportunities for Metavante.

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) announced it is spinning off its Lender Processing Services (LPS) business unit to its shareholders in a tax free exchange. The rationale is to focus on its “core banking and payments” business unit, Transaction Processing Services. In light of its recent...

Countrywide reported its long awaited 3Q earnings report with an update on its mortgage origination, servicing and thrift deposit business. The loss for 3Q was $1.2 billion, in the middle of the analyst estimates. However, while not as bad as some expected, the magnitude of CFC losing 20% of its equity...

With many big banks such as BoA, Wachovia and Citigroup reporting record breaking losses in the 3Q, there shouldn't be any less spending for new bank technology in the future. We may see consolidation of banking & trading divisions, but technology will come to the forefront in spending from ban...