Windows in Financial Services

Citibank is one the largest private-label credit card issuers in the world. The bank handles 2 million transactions a day, 16 transactions a second, with a middleware framework whose first iteration took about a month to develop back in 2000, according to Jim Payne, vice president and senior lead architect with Citibanks’ Citicards technology.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI) has reduced operational risk and improved compliance management in the product control department of its London office with the deployment of spreadsheet management software. “We were experiencing vast growth in product and at the same time like most major organizations, we have large numbers of business-critical spreadsheets throughout the entire [...]

With U.S. e-commerce retail sales ballooning to over $54 billion in 2006, overall e-commerce sales including B2B extending beyond a staggering $1 trillion, and over 200 million Internet users, enterprises face a mammoth problem. How to secure the applications that are behind these Web sites? At large enterprises, the kind to which we entrust [...]

Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services company Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has improved efficiency, customer services, and record keeping for business recovery purposes through the installation of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007-based document management system for its risk management services division.
The risk division, called Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services, or AJGRMS, [...]