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

Emerging Drivers and Vendors in Life Policy Administration
Analyst Author:  Sean Cunniff ,   Kristin Cressman
Who Owns the Branch of the Future in the Age of Austerity?
Analyst Author:  Jim Eckenrode ,   Nicole Sturgill





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February 10, 2010
NASSCOM India Leadership Forum
Mumbai, India
February 11, 2010
Mitigating Operational Risk in Data Masking Implementation
Complimentary Webinar
February 18, 2010
Cost Basis Reporting Preparedness
Complimentary Webinar

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2010 Top 10 Business Drivers, Strategic Responses, IT Initiatives in Investment Management
February 11, 2010
Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA
Dayle Scher

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Featured Analyst

Photo Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA

Dushyant Shahrawat is a Senior Research Director at TowerGroup in the Securities & Investments practice mainly covering trading trends and market structure for the institutional securities industry. With over 15 years of experience in financial services, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. He researches strategic issues fa...


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