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

Correspondent Clearing: Identifying Opportunities in the Aftermath of the Credit Crisis
Analyst Author:  Matthew Bienfang
Forecasting Global Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance IT Spending over 2009–12
Analyst Author:  Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA





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November 25, 2009
Payments Executive Day
London, United Kingdom
December 2, 2009 - December 4, 2009
Electronic Trading Europe 2009
Four Seasons, Hampshire, UK
April 14, 2010 - April 16, 2010
2010 TowerGroup Annual Conference & Exhibition
Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel<br/>Boston, Massachusetts USA

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Trends Shaping the Future of Bank Cards
November 19, 2009
Dennis Moroney

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As the world marks the one year anniversary of one of the most turbulent weeks in economic history, the question on everyone's mind is "Where do we go from here?" TowerGroup finds that the dominant themes in the securities and investments industry in the past 12 months were the three R's: risk, regulation, and reinvention. We expect these themes to remain dominant for the next 12 months.


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Photo Ralph Silva

Ralph Silva is a Research Director working in TowerGroup's London office and covers the principal challenges facing the global banking market. He focuses his research activities on channel management, branding and marketing, CRM, cross-border issues, global regulations, sourcing, industry consolidation, payments, and the strategic initiatives of diversified global financial service...


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