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Bank Technology News = Payments Rx: Sleep With the Enemy

Unisys thinks banks needs to eat a little humble pie in their payments channels.
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Mergers and Acquisitions Simplified with 3D Blueprinting

Mergers and acquisitions are rife with guesswork and wishful thinking. But Unisys 3D Blueprinting can help by providing the three qualities most critical to success: visibility, traceability, and flexibility.


What I Want

Decision makers in financial services organizations want their suppliers to have a keen grasp of their marketplace, competition and needs - and not to speak in acronyms.


Three Key IT Challenges

Here are three IT challenges bankers face today: security, consolidation and delivery.


The Branch Is Dead, Long Live the Branch

By Eric Schoeniger
Bank branches were supposed to go away. They didn't. But in the near future, they'll look a whole lot different.


One-Stop Bill Payment -- Online

By Kristine Grow
As bill payers go virtual, businesses scramble to find ways to meet the growing needs of online bill presentment and payment. Will financial institutions emerge as key online integrators of customer bills?


Know the Risks of a More Mobile Workforce

By Eric Schoeniger
A growing number of workers are using mobile devices, such as PDAs, smart phones and wireless laptops, to access corporate resources, capture data and take transactions to the customer. Although expediting business, this trend also raises a host of new security concerns. From viruses that target cell phones to hackers who tap into wireless networks to lost or stolen laptops, mobility increasingly puts your information assets at risk.


Info Tech Is Power

Some of the challenges ahead, and strategies for better integrating IT into the many components involved in financial services.


How To Keep Customers

Financial services executives and futurists explore how technology may impact the 2007 financial services market.


From the Ground Up

By Eric Schoeniger
Unisys built Reliance Standard Life Insurance a new system to support core operations and provide a single view of corporate data. The system is changing the way the insurer does business.


Facing Up To The Future

By Tony Ferguson
The future champion bank will prepare its staff to recognize client needs and perform the dual functions of service and advice. It will have its trusted advisors at many customer convenience locations. It will not only aspire to, but will achieve 10-product relationships – completely redefining cost metrics.


Evaluating the Aftermath

By Kristine Grow
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 caused organizations to re-evaluate security policies and infrastructure. One year later, what has been the impact on the three industries most affected?


Enhance Your Image

By Kristine Grow
E-imaging has been around since the 1980s. But advances in the ways organizations serve customers and manage data make e-imaging and related workflow solutions more strategic than ever before.


Eight Key Trends

Eight key technology trends that will change banking over the next decade.


Combatting Identity Fraud

By Elazar Katz
The next generation of identity fraud will involve multiple channels and deploy sophisticated fraud automation tools. Addressing the problem requires a team effort and capable technology. This advisory report discusses three key trends, the Unisys approach to developing and implementing effective monitoring and detecting systems and our family of solutions.


Can the Paperless Branch Transform Banking

By Eric Schoeniger
With so many inefficient, paper-intensive processes, bank branches often force customers to wait for even the most routine activities. The solution: integrated document management technologies that reduce bottom-line costs while delivering a better customer experience and top-line gains. Read how paperless processes are revving up branch services.


BPO: Transforming Financial Services Firms into Agile Businesses

In this Q+A with Unisys Financial Services President Dominick Cavuoto, find out how business process outsourcing (BPO) is helping to transform financial services firms into businesses that have the agility to respond to a dynamic marketplace.


Banks Vs Identity Thieves - Who Will Win

With phishing and related scams growing more sophisticated, financial institutions must battle back with integrated detection systems across multiple channels.


Banking in the 21st Century

By Jim Martin
A focus on branch building, process improvement and risk management is helping financial institutions enter a new age of banking.


Bank Mergers and Acquisitions - Set Sail for Success

By Eric Schoeniger
Too many bank mergers end up dead in the water. But what if you could set your compass for success before the ship even left the dock?


And Now for Something Completely Different

By Eric Schoeniger
There are times when every business must transform or perish. How adaptable is your organization? This article examines why change management is critical, how to get employees buy-in, and the role technology plays in change management strategy.


A Measure of Security

By Kristine Grow
If no organization can be 100 percent secure, how can you be sure you've adequately and cost-effectively protected the business?