Microsoft Business Talk
Technology in Financial Services - Enabling Innovation and shaping the future
Up Close and Personal - Banking on Big Data
Many people ask the question “where is banking going next?” Facing a down market, legacy...
Date: 02/14/2013
A Separate Point of View
The technology industry has become a battle ground for patent disputes. Some have questioned their...
Date: 08/27/2012
Eliminating the Fear of Social
The recent furor over Wall Street’s handling of Facebook masks a deeper issue –...
Date: 06/11/2012
Millennials and Boomers – Poles Apart or Peas in a Pod?
Popular mythology suggests younger people are more tech savvy than older ones; digital natives and...
Date: 05/17/2012
How does Hadoop fit into the Analytical Enterprise?
As described in a previous post, an Analytical Enterprise is one that leverages data to its...
Date: 04/11/2012
Big Data and the Analytical Enterprise
At the recent Davos Summit, Big Data was described as an asset as valuable as currency or gold. Why...
Date: 04/11/2012
Big Data Comes of Age
Many years ago, Walter Wriston, former Chairman and CEO of Citicorp, startled the world by claiming...
Date: 02/13/2012
Coming Out of Left Field
Baseball is the arguably the most hallowed game in America. Trying to redefine baseball is almost...
Date: 10/15/2011
The Bank Branch of the Future – Microsoft at BAI 2011
Bankers at BAI this year seem to agree that bricks and mortar banking is here to stay, despite the...
Date: 10/13/2011
Banking on an Uncertain Future - BAI 2011
President Clinton’s keynote speech at BAI this week reminded that this is an exciting time to...
Date: 10/12/2011
Banking at the Crossroads
History tells us there are certain watershed moments. Banking is going through such a phase. After...
Date: 10/06/2011
Netflix and the Future of Banking
Banking moguls looking to extract more value from their businesses might take a leaf out of the...
Date: 07/01/2011
The Smartphone Wars
It’s been almost fifty years since Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, goof-balled the mobile phone into...
Date: 06/29/2011
We Are What We Tweet
Written by David but inspired by Damien. For years, a business card has been the ultimate power...
Date: 06/26/2011
Reflections on SIFMA 2011
Now that SIFMA 2011 is behind us, let’s take a moment to look back on a conference whose...
Date: 06/17/2011
The World According to Twitter
Passing by a colleague’s desk I was really impressed by his Twitter activity. Suddenly I felt...
Date: 06/12/2011
Risk Management 2.0 – it’s closer than you think
It has been a couple of years since the worst financial crisis in decades, and it is clear that we...
Date: 06/09/2011
Next Generation Risk Management in the New Age of Structured Products
Even before the financial crisis, financial firms struggled to get their enterprise risk act...
Date: 06/09/2011
Designing a Viral Product – a fresh approach to innovation
Viral marketing is hot right now. In the new world of social networking, a digital outreach strategy...
Date: 06/08/2011
Three Ways to Analyse Social and Market Data - Recreating the Ear of the Markets Part II
Once market prices hit the screen or populate a spreadsheet they are already history. In fact...
Date: 06/02/2011
Recreating the Ear of the Markets - Part I
Ever since Mr. Reuter replaced carrier pigeons with telegraphy, the history of markets has been a...
Date: 06/01/2011
Risk and Data Management Event: Trends and Innovations - NYC June 8th
How to manage risk data without having it manage you In today’s high frequency markets, success in...
Date: 05/31/2011
Risk: Defined by The Observer
Looking through a kaleidoscope: Asset Management’s view of Integrated Risk Management Asset...
Date: 05/23/2011
The Bloomberg Debate on Private Clouds
How are financial institutions adopting Cloud technology? Are private clouds more appropriate for...
Date: 05/20/2011
The Other Dimensions of Transparency: for Markets and Management
A bank’s peers, partners, clients, counterparties…. All demand and expect greater...
Date: 05/18/2011
Regulatory Transparency and Data Best Practices
New rules are being written, demanding greater reporting from financial institutions to their...
Date: 05/12/2011
Eliminating the Fog of Markets
April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War, the bloodiest...
Date: 04/27/2011
The New Middle Ground in Banking
New York used to be famous for its luncheon clubs. Professional New Yorkers would take time midday...
Date: 04/26/2011
A Predictive Analytics Roundtable: Making Data Statistically Relevant and Actionable
Analytics is an increasingly powerful business tool, one that is critical for competing successfully...
Date: 04/13/2011
Innovation and Collaboration – managing the complexity of ecosystems
'Innovation' and 'collaboration' are terms that are used almost synonymously these days as more...
Date: 04/08/2011
The Analytic Enterprise
Why do some banks perform so much better than others? There are many factors, but a lot has to do...
Date: 04/08/2011
The Growing Power of Visualization – the next phase of markets
Too much information and too little time to absorb it - that's the dilemma of the financial markets...
Date: 04/05/2011
A Chef’s Guide to Innovation
Banking has taken a leaf out of many industries, particularly the hospitality industry but cooking?...
Date: 04/04/2011
Mastering Innovation in a World of Complexity
A 1994 ground breaking paper on product development suggested that there were two kinds of product...
Date: 03/28/2011
Digital Signature in the Branch of the Future
We are all familiar with digital signature in the retail environment, even in insurance. A number of...
Date: 03/24/2011
Increasing Marketing ROI – the importance of uplift
In today's competitive markets, it's all about focus - reaching the customers that deliver the best...
Date: 03/12/2011
The Future of Language
What is the future of the English language? For the younger generation it looks something like this...
Date: 03/10/2011
Slates in Financial Services – Changing the Conversation
The interest in Apple’s iPad amongst financial services business leaders creates a significant...
Date: 03/07/2011
Migrating Financial Services Applications to the Azure Public Cloud
Our Microsoft finserv team is seeing a major uptick in financial services firms and partners looking...
Date: 03/07/2011