Where will Deutsche Bank and its clients focus their energy in the next two years? Paul Camp explains.

Banks and their corporate clients are investing heavily in new technology in the cash management sphere, bringing mutual benefits, and they increasingly share the same aims of rationalisation and globalisation. Jules Stewart reports.

The next generation of web usage, boosted by the spread of broadband, is going to be bigger and more diverse than ever – so banks should rethink their online strategy now. Stephen Timewell looks at the latest developments.

Austria’s Erste Bank is clear about its target market in the fast-expanding countries of central and eastern Europe. CEO Andreas Treichl explains why to Stephen Timewell.
A decade ago, Austria’s banks were not foreseen as the future dominant force in the development of banking in central and eastern Europe (CEE).

MasterCard’s chief information officer tells Dan Barnes of his healthy state of paranoia, which compels him to keep up to date with developments in the market place.

By providing a standard approach across multiple vendors and technologies, service-orientated architecture will become simpler to manage. Heather McKenzie highlights the latest initiatives.

By adopting service-oriented architecture, financial enterprises will be better able to integrate processes, thereby creating more options to consolidate and excel in their core businesses. By Samir Seth.

Providers of financial services must move towards web services and service-oriented environments in order that they can be more responsive to changing industry shifts and stay competitive in a turbulent market. By Samir Seth.

The world’s largest banks are seeking growth in their own markets, seemingly with good reason, given that two-thirds of the world’s largest 300 banks are in the EU, North America and Japan and their assets account for some 80% of the total of the global top 300 banks.

Trying to maintain systems built using old programming languages can be costly for banks and rewarding for programming specialists. But what happens when the specialists retire? By Chris Skinner.