Windows in Financial Services

Whether it is ALM, AML, CRM, STP, P&C, SOX or RISK, data is part of the problem or part of the solution across capital markets, banking, and insurance. From asset-liability management to anti-money laundering, business users want to get their hands on the fundamental data so they can analyze it and combine it for actionable [...]

Last month, investment management technology vendor Indata announced the rollout of a new Web-based reporting solution based on Microsoft’s one-year-old SQL Server Reporting Services. It’s not alone: other Microsoft partners like Proclarity and Lumigent either already have or are planning to support the technology, giving Microsoft an opportunity to challenge long established reporting system vendor [...]

The ten-year $290 million outsourcing agreement inked earlier this year between Accenture and Caixa Catalunya, Spain’s third largest savings bank, will involve a massive XP migration.
Accenture will help migrate all 1004 branches and seven corporate offices of Caixa Catalunya and its affiliates to XP. Caixa Catalunya group’s approximately 7200 PCs and 1500 servers are Microsoft-based.
The [...]

In January, MEMBERS Business Solutions Company, LLC (MBSC), announced it would use Bankers Systems’ Rembrandt Lending System to help establish effective and compliant business lending documentation.
For Bankers Systems, the announcement was part of a steady increase in business from credit unions and credit union service organizations (CUSOs) since credit union business lending regulations were loosened [...]

The more voices involved in the process of refining the ACORD standard, the more reflective of the industry the process becomes.
So when the recommendations resulting from a late January meeting of the ACORD Life Product Working Group drew lively debate, it meant the process was working, said Cathy Strovinskas, one of the working group’s four [...]