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

Waiting for the (Payments) Hub: A Play in Three Acts
Analyst Author:  Andy Schmidt
The Conyers and Durbin Credit Card Bills: What They Could Mean for Commercial Cards
Analyst Author:  Steven Murphy

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June 29, 2009
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June 30, 2009
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July 1, 2009 - July 9, 2009
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Back to the Future: Improving Commercial Loan Monitoring During the Downturn
July 9, 2009
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Our Perspective

There are questions as to whether or not US retail banking performance is beginning to stabilize. This uncertainty is highlighted by apparently contradictory actions taken recently by both regulators and banks. Administration plans to revamp the regulatory structure and close charter loopholes reflect their perceptions of ongoing challenges in the business, dating back to last year, as confirmed by results of the stress test. At the same time, banks are paying back — or trying to pay back — funds received from the Troubled Assets Relief Program, reflecting their belief that their individual institutions have weathered the worst of the storm and can operate safely and profitably on the strength of their existing business.


Featured Analyst

Photo Tom Price

Tom Price is a Research Director in the Securities and Capital Markets research service at TowerGroup. He is a 30-year veteran of the securities industry and draws on that experience to focus on the business and technology trends shaping the sell-side landscape. Prior to joining TowerGroup in 2005, Tom was a senior business analyst at SEI Investments, where he also served as team...


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