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Does IT Payoff? Strategies of Two Banking Giants
Ali Farhoomand
University of Hong Kong
Minyi Huang
University of Hong Kong
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DOES IT PAYOFF?
STRATEGIES OF TWO BANKING GIANTS
Ali Farhoomand
School of Business
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
[email protected]
Minyi Huang
Asia Case Research Centre
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
[email protected]
Abstract
Banks have long been among the most intensive users of information technology (IT).
Globalization has further accentuated banks’ reliance on IT, leading to further increase in their IT
investment. It is not all that clear, however, whether these investments pay off. This case presents
the complexities involved in measuring IT investment by comparing and contrasting the IT
strategies of two of the world’s largest banks: HSBC and Citigroup. Will the IT investment
strategies adopted by HSBC and Citigroup enhance their operational efficiency or strategic
positions? Which of the two banks will have higher returns on their IT investments in the long
run? How should they measure such returns?
Keywords: banking, IT evaluation, IT alignment, IS investment
IS Education and Teaching Cases
2 Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal 2007
Introduction
You can see the computer age everywhere but in productivity statistics.
- Robert Solow (1987)
In the previous 20 years, there had been a debate concerning whether or not IT paid off in the long run. While some
questioned the positive contribution of IT to productivity, others attributed the so-called IT paradox to measurement
methodology and to the lack of measurable data, such as increased quality, variety, customer service, speed and
responsiveness. To make matters worse, a controversial article published in Harvard Business Review argued that,
as IT was being commoditized, the opportunities of gaining IT-based competitive advantages were rapidly
disappearing (Carr, 2003). If this was true, then companies should spend less, wait longer to invest in more matured
technologies and sh ...
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Association for Information Systems
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
ICIS 2007 Proceedings International Conference on Information Systems(ICIS)
12-31-2007
Does IT Payoff? Strategies of Two Banking Giants
Ali Farhoomand
University of Hong Kong
Minyi Huang
University of Hong Kong
This material is brought to you by the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been
accepted for inclusion in ICIS 2007 Proceedings by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). For more information, please
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Farhoomand, Ali and Huang, Minyi, "Does IT Payoff? Strategies of Two Banking Giants" (2007). ICIS 2007 Proceedings. Paper 3.
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http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2007
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Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal 2007 1
DOES IT PAYOFF?
STRATEGIES OF TWO BANKING GIANTS
Ali Farhoomand
School of Business
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
[email protected]
Minyi Huang
Asia Case Research Centre
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
[email protected]
Abstract
Banks have long been among the most intensive users of information technology (IT).
Globalization has further accentuated banks’ reliance on IT, leading to further increase in their IT
investment. It is not all that clear, however, whether these investments pay off. This case presents
the complexities involved in measuring IT investment by comparing and contrasting the IT
strategies of two of the world’s largest banks: HSBC and Citigroup. Will the IT investment
strategies adopted by HSBC and Citigroup enhance their operational efficiency or strategic
positions? Which of the two banks will have higher returns on their IT investments in the long
run? How should they measure such returns?
Keywords: banking, IT evaluation, IT alignment, IS investment
IS Education and Teaching Cases
2 Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal 2007
Introduction
You can see the computer age everywhere but in productivity statistics.
- Robert Solow (1987)
In the previous 20 years, there had been a debate concerning whether or not IT paid off in the long run. While some
questioned the positive contribution of IT to productivity, others attributed the so-called IT paradox to measurement
methodology and to the lack of measurable data, such as increased quality, variety, customer service, speed and
responsiveness. To make matters worse, a controversial article published in Harvard Business Review argued that,
as IT was being commoditized, the opportunities of gaining IT-based competitive advantages were rapidly
disappearing (Carr, 2003). If this was true, then companies should spend less, wait longer to invest in more matured
technologies and sh.
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The appearance of data innovation to each part of human life and business has been obvious to
the point that it doesn't should be complemented more. Data innovation has been of extraordinary
substance in managing an account framework. This examination expects to explore the impact of
data innovation in the saving money arrangement of Bank. The information are acquired both
through the clients and the workers. The information were then broke down utilizing the correct
rate and the 5-point Liker scale to decide the effect of Information innovation in the saving money
framework undertakings. The discoveries at that point demonstrated that Information innovation
adds to the saving money framework in three diverse routes as tails: IT spares the season of the
clients and the representatives obviously, IT chops down the costs and IT encourages the system
exchanges.
1. GLOBALIZATIONOF FINANCE
Arshad Hippargi
Vishwakarma Institute Of Management
Email Id: arshadhippargi@vim.ac.in
ABSTRACT
Financial globalization can lead to large benefits, particularly to the development of the financial
system. But financial globalization can also come with crises and contagion. The net effect of
financial globalization is likely positive in the long run, with risks being more prevalent right
after countries liberalize. So far, only some countries, sectors, and firms have taken advantage of
globalization. As financial systems turn global, governments lose policy instruments, so there is
an increasing scope for some form of international financial policy cooperation.
Keywords: financial globalization, financial liberalization, international financial
markets, crises.
INTRODUCTION
During the past two decades, financial markets around the world have become increasingly
interconnected. Financial globalization has brought considerable benefits for national economies
And to investors and savers, but it has also changed the structure of markets, creating new risk
And challenges for market participant and policymaker.
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FORCES THAT HAVE DRIVEN FINACIAL GLOBALIZATION
Advances in information and computer technologies have made it easier for market participants
and country authorities to collect and process the information they need to measure, monitor, and
manage financial risk; to price and trade the complex new financial instruments that have been
developed in recent years; and to manage large books of transactions spread across international
financial centers in Asia, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere.
The globalization of national economies has advanced significantly as real economic activity—
production, consumption, and physical investment has been dispersed over different countries or
regions. Today, the components of a television set may be manufactured in one country and
2. assembled in another, and the final product sold to consumers around the world. New
multinational companies have been created, each producing and distributing its goods and
services through networks that span the globe, while established multinationals have expanded
internationally by merging with or acquiring foreign companies. Many countries have lowered
barriers to international trade, and cross-border flows in goods and services have increased
significantly. World exports of goods and services, which averaged $2.3 billion a year during
1983-92, have more than tripled, to an estimated $7.6 billion in 2001. These changes have
stimulated demand for cross-border finance and, in tandem with financial liberalization, fostered
the creation of an internationally mobile pool of capital and liquidity.
The liberalization of national financial and capital markets, coupled with the rapid
improvements in information technology and the globalization of national economies, has
catalyzed financial innovation and spurred the growth of cross-border capital movements. The
globalization of financial intermediation is partly a response to the demand for mechanisms to
intermediate cross-border flows and partly a response to declining barriers to trade in financial
services and liberalized rules governing the entry of foreign financial institutions into domestic
capital markets. Global gross capital flows in 2000 amounted to $7.5 trillion, a fourfold increase
over 1990. The growth in cross-border capital movements also resulted in larger net capital
flows, rising from $500 billion in 1990 to nearly $1.2 trillion in 2000.
Competition among the providers of intermediary services has increased because of
technological advances and financial liberalization. The regulatory authorities in many countries
have altered rules governing financial intermediation to allow a broader range of institutions to
provide financial services, and new classes of nonbank financial institutions, including
institutional investors, have emerged. Investment banks, securities firms, asset managers, mutual
funds, insurance companies, specialty and trade finance companies, hedge funds, and even
telecommunications, software, and food companies are starting to provide services similar to
those traditionally provided by banks.
THE KEY CURRENT TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
Firms at the front line of the financial markets, such as investment banks, fund management
companies and exchange operators, are all critically dependent on information technology
and the telecommunications networks that allow computers to communicate with each other.
3. For the past two decades, nearly all such firms used their own in-house information
technology systems, very often involving powerful server computers connected to ‘client’
computers running on the desks of each
employee. Almost always, the client computers would be standard personal computers (PC), and
the server computers would actually be constructed from several very high specification PCs, all
located together and connected to each other in a single room; that room being the firm’s ‘server
room’ or ‘data centre’.
CLOUD COMPUTING IS HERE!
The global information technology industry is currently undergoing a major shift towards cloud
computing, where ultra large scale data centres (vast warehouses full of interconnected
computers) are accessed remotely as a service via the internet, with the user of the remotely
accessed computers paying rental costs by the minute or by the hour. This greatly reduces the
cost of high performance computing (HPC), and hence lowers barriers to entry for individuals or
firms looking to use supercomputer scale HPC for the automated
design and optimisation of trading systems. Rather than spending millions of dollars of capital
expenditure on an in-house HPC data centre facility, it is now possible to obtain the same results
by renting HPC from cloud computing providers for a few thousand dollars. It is no longer
necessary to have the financial resources of a major hedge fund or investment bank to engage in
development of highly technology-dependent approaches to trading.At the same time, the desire
for ultra high speed processing of financial data has led a number of market leaders to abandon
the use of general purpose computers, such as commercially available PCs, and replace them
instead with customised special purpose silicon chips. Some of these silicon chips have hundreds
or thousands of independent small computers on them, each operating in parallel, offering huge
increases in speed.
One major new technology that is currently the focus of significant research and
development is the prospect of computers being programmed to ‘understand’ not only the
numeric information of market prices, volumes and times, but also the non-numeric semantic
information that is carried in human-readable data streams (such as written news reports, status
updates and ‘tweets’ on social media websites) and audio data (such as telephone calls, radio
shows, podcasts and video sequences).
NEGATIVE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY
Rapid developments and applications of new technology, coupled with ever-increasing
complexity of financial trading and markets make it difficult to fully understand the present
effects of HFT on financial markets and even more difficult to develop policies and regulatory
interventions which will be robust to developments over the next decade. There is a relative lack
of evidence and analysis to inform the development of new regulations, not least because of the
time lag between rapid technological developments and research into their effects, and the lack
of available, comprehensive and consistent data. These two challenges raise important concerns
about the level of resources available to regulators in addressing present and future issues. It
makes sense for the various parties involved in financial markets to be brought together in
framing further analytical work, in order to promote wide agreement to the eventual results. The
4. extent to which different markets embrace new technology will critically affect their
competitiveness and therefore their position globally: The new technologies mean that major
trading systems can exist almost anywhere. Emerging economies may come to challenge the
long-established historical dominance of major European and US cities as global hubs for
financial markets if the former capitalise faster on the technologies and the opportunities
presented.
• The new technologies will continue to have profound implications for the workforce required
to service markets, both in terms of numbers employed in specific jobs, and the skills required:
Machines can increasingly undertake a range of jobs for less cost, with fewer errors and at
much greater speed. As a result, for example, the number of traders engaged in on-the-spot
execution of orders has fallen sharply in recent years, and is likely to continue to fall further in
the future. However, the mix of human and robot traders is likely to continue for some time,
although this will be affected by other important factors, such as future regulation.
• Markets are already ‘socio-technical’ systems, combining human and robot participants.
Understanding and managing these systems to prevent undesirable behaviour in both humans
and robots will be key to ensuring effective regulation:
FINANCIAL STABILITY WITH COMPUTER BASED TRADING
HFT has increased volatility in financial markets. However, in specific circumstances CBT can
lead to significant instability. In particular, self-reinforcing feedback loops, as well as a variety
of informational features inherent in computer-based markets, can amplify internal risks and lead
to undesired interactions and outcomes. This can happen even in the presence of well-intentioned
management and control processes. Three main mechanisms that may lead to instabilities and
which involve CBT are:
1 nonlinear sensitivities to change, where small changes can have very large effects, not least
through feedback loops;
2 incomplete information in CBT environments where some agents in the market have
more, or more accurate, knowledge than others and where few events are common knowledge;
3 Internal ‘endogenous’ risks based on feedback loops within the system.
The feedback loops can be worsened by incomplete information and a lack of common
knowledge.
A further cause of instability is social: a process known as ‘normalisation of deviance’, where
unexpected and risky events (such as extremely rapid crashes) come to be seen increasely normal
until a desired results occurred.
MARKET ABUSE AND COMPUTER BASED TRADING SYSTEM
Claims of market manipulation using HFT techniques are reported by institutional investors such
as pension funds and mutual funds in different countries. These claims are, in turn, widely
relayed by the financial press. Even if not backed by statistical evidence, these perceptions need
to be taken seriously by policy makers because, given that the true extent of abuse is not
precisely known, it is a perception that is likely to determine the behaviour of liquidity suppliers.
High perceived levels of abuse may harm market liquidity and efficiency for all classes of
traders.High frequency traders exploit their speed advantage to disadvantage other participants in
financial terms. The growth of HFT has changed order flows in ways that facilitate market abuse
by both slow and fast agents (for example, by making ‘predatory trading’ easier
5. CONCLUSION
Globalization has certainly brought the world closer, but this technological advancement do have
some vital effects. As discussed in the paper, technology has helped and evolved financial
structure of the world but there are its crucial effects as well. It is also true that the digital era
have made things simple but complex as well. It can also be concluded that digital era cannot be
sustained but can be improved !
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Benifits And Risks Of Financial Globalization(Challenges For Developing Countries)_Sergio L.
Schmukler –Development Research Group World Bank.
The Future Of Computer Trading In Financial Market – Sir John Beddington
Globalization Of Finance – Gerd Hausler
The Globalization Of Financial Services – Nicholas pologeorgis
The Benefits And Risk Of Financial Globalization – Peter B. Kenon