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- How to Manage the Media
- For too long, American CEOs have operated with a policy of benign neglect toward the media. But recent CEO downfalls and PR disasters prove that strategy no longer works. To survive in the current media environment, here's how smart chief execs are making PR part of corporate strategy. ...
- Articles 2008-03-28
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- Financial Guarantors: 2004 Recap and 2005 Outlook
- Industry performance between 2001-2003 was extremely strong from both a credit quality and profitability perspective. Historically low interest rates stimulated significant new debt issuance, while economic uncertainty heightened the demand for financial guaranty insurance. As a result, a number of financial guarantors were recapitalized or reorganized in 2003-2004 to capitalize...
- White papers 2004-12-13
- Measuring the Value of Strategic Alliances in the Wake of a Financial Implosion: Evidence From Japan's Financial Services Sector
- This paper examines the wealth effects of financial-institution strategic alliances on the shareholders of the newly allied firms. This paper is different from previous studies of non-financial joint ventures, financial and non-financial mergers and acquisitions, and non-financial strategic alliances in three important aspects/ways: First, the paper focuses on financial institutions...
- White papers 2003-10-08
- How Does Globalization Affect The Synchronization Of Business Cycles?
- This paper examines the impact of rising trade and financial integration on international business cycle co-movement among a large group of industrial and developing countries. The results provide at best limited support for the conventional wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of synchronization of business cycles. The evidence that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Gaining Competitive Advantage With a Financial Services Marketing Information System
- Financial Service marketers need to have a broad range of skills within a single enterprise. They need to be experts in B-B and B-C; business is incredibly competitive; and lines of business operate highly independently. With an industry that is fast consolidating, it's only recently that institutions have woken up...
- White papers 2003-04-02
- Financial Transactions Globalization
- The paper analyzes the relationship between globalization of financial markets and international economic relations. The starting point is the assumption that financial markets globalization is a result of the structural changes in world economy functioning. That is, the globalization process has been changing in intensity and quality, due the dynamics...
- White papers 2003-05-30
- Data Security and the New GLBA Guidance
- Identity theft is top of mind for many consumers and regulators, and rightfully so. As a result, improving data security and planning for rapid reaction to security breaches are vital goals for virtually every financial institution. As a result of this focus, sections of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) specifically address...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Fleet Boston - Algo Credit Case Study
- In the year 2000, FleetBoston Financial was created as a result of a merger between Fleet Financial and BankBoston. At its inception, the new institution faced the daunting task of introducing a single risk management solution to meet the needs of the new, much larger corporation. The implementation of Algo...
- Case studies
- The Mexican Peso Crisis
- This article is about the Peso Crisis and defines different types of debt crises - Debt crises arrive in different ways: in the Peso Crisis, the local currency was suddenly massively devalued against the U.S. dollar, while the 1982 Debt Crisis was caused by rising interest rates causing the...
- White papers 1995-01-01
- Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility
- Discussions of financial risk often fail to distinguish between risks that are consciously borne and those that are not. This paper analyses specific situations in which significant unanticipated and unintended financial risks are accumulated. It focuses, in particular, on the implicit guarantees that governments extend to banks and other financial...
- White papers 2003-06-25
- SOS For Financial Institutions: Stop Excessive Spending On Risk And Compliance!
- Efforts toward enterprise wide risk management have delivered less and been more difficult than hoped. A major reason for this, according to findings of a survey, is a surprising lack of data integration and data standards to provide a foundation for risk management and financial transparency. As a result, most...
- White papers 2004-04-27
- How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship Between Growth and Volatility?
- This paper examines this relationship in the context of globalization a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial integration that has intensified since the mid-1980s. Using a comprehensive new data set, the paper documents that, while the basic negative association between growth and volatility...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Audit Committee Financial Experts
- "On January 23, 2003 the SEC released final rules under Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 regarding disclosures with respect to ""audit committee financial experts. The final definition of audit committee financial expert adopted by the SEC is broader than the definition of ""financial expert"" initially proposed...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Internet Banking:A Risk Management Primer for Directors
- The intent of this document is to share best practices that can impact the financial institution's bottom line. Community banks continue to move online at a rapid pace. Many directors of financial institutions do not have expertise in the technical aspects of Internet banking and may actually feel intimidated when...
- White papers 2001-06-21
- The New New Economy: Priorities for Winning
- "The winners will have sound loan portfolios, strong financial performances, and clearly defined strategies to keep their best customers. As a result, two tiers of financial rewards affecting shareholders and employees will emerge. New century economic drivers are pointing banks toward a new set of priorities. Try these strategies to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Impact of Tools on Financial Forecasting
- This report discusses a recently conducted survey of 91 business leaders about their forecasting processes. More than 85% of respondents are CFOs, Controllers, and other senior finance executives. A majority is from companies with up to $200 million in revenue. Every company creates forecasts, but as the results from this...
- White papers 2004-12-16
- IP Telephony Puts the Service Back Into Financial Services
- The convergence of voice and data systems into a single, intelligent network is revolutionizing the way financial services institutions conduct business. Internet protocol telephony can help financial institutions boost customer satisfaction and retention while reducing costs, addressing risks, streamlining business processes and, ultimately, achieving significant return on investment. IP telephony...
- White papers 2004-03-16
- Cyberbanking and currency competition
- To a significant degree, the improved inflation performance among developed countries is a result of the increase in effective competition among national currencies. To a very real extent, the world's citizens are already enjoying the advantages of competition among currencies. National monetary authorities are already discovering that to attract...
- White papers 1996-05-23
- Conservatism Rules In Retirement Planning
- Over the last few years, the threat of terrorism, war, and economic slowdown has put the financial advisor’s job in jeopardy. However, it is a financial advisor’s duty to prevent the employees from taking early retirement. As a result, many financial advisors are considering refurbishing of retirement planning strategies for...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Managing Financial Performance
- Financial executives are under increasing pressure to provide timely, accurate reports that measure their company's corporate performance. However, the core financial processes that deliver effective reporting - budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, planning - are often supported by fragmented applications and processes that are not integrated across the company. The result is...
- Webcasts 2002-11-19
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