Banking

Continuous Advisory Services covering best strategies to manage IT, customers, and risk while optimizing workflow through technology in consumer credit, retail banking, and delivery channels.

- Consumer Lending
- Delivery Channels
- European Banking and Payments
- Retail Banking
- Wholesale Banking

Payments

Continuous Advisory Services covering best strategies to manage IT, customers, and risk while optimizing workflow through technology in global payments, wholesale banking, and bank cards.

- Bank Cards
- European Banking and Payments
- Global Payments
- Wholesale Banking

Securities & Investments

Continuous Advisory Services focused on business and IT issues facing sell-side brokerage institutions, buy-side institutions, and retail brokerage houses.

- Brokerage & Wealth Management
- Investment Management
- Securities & Capital Markets

Insurance

The Continuous Advisory Service's Insurance Practice provides actionable insights on the strategic and tactical use of IT to process transactions and optimize workflow and client relationships in property and casualty and life and annuity.

- Insurance

Cross-Industry

Continuous Advisory Services that investigate IT investment strategies, emerging IT solutions, risk, and Six Sigma business processes in major global markets and across all financial services.

- Emerging Technologies
- Financial Information Security
- Strategies & IT Investments

Latest Research

Payments and the Art of Liquidity Management: The Liquid Core of the Payment Business
Analyst Author:  Leo Lipis
Trends in US Payments: Noncash Transaction Volume Growing Despite Uncertainty
Analyst Author:  Andy Schmidt

Upcoming Events

March 29, 2012
Electronic Signatures, Unlocking the Potential of your Bank’s Multichannel Strategy
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey, CA

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Investment Accounting Systems: Do they Really Matter?
February 21, 2012

Featured Analyst

Photo Sam Stuckal

Sam Stuckal is a Research Director in the Insurance practice at TowerGroup supporting Life and Annuity. His research focuses on how technology supports the distribution and servicing of Life and Annuity products, including actuarial systems, policy administration systems, illustration systems and customer relationship management automation.Sam has more than 20 years of insurance i...


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