The New World of As a Service - Infographicaccenture
The market is moving toward an As-a-Service delivery model that provides plug-in, scalable, consumption-based business services that deliver the business outcomes that every organization demands—increased revenue or decreased costs.
Accenture Technology Vision for Industrial 2016accenture
New technologies are not just transforming how industrial companies manufacture their products. They are also having a profound impact on workforce and marketplace dynamics, creating new pathways for collaboration – amongst people, machines and organizations. Increasingly, companies’ destinies will be defined by how successfully they use digital to reorient their workforces, enable collaboration and both anticipate and drive disruption.
Not your Father’s Business Model – Competitiveness in the Age of Digitalaccenture
Please visit: www.accenture.com/CompetitivenessInDigital. This is not your father’s business model. Back then, products and services enjoyed long, illustrious reign in the marketplace. Now, they appear and disappear overnight. That’s because digital is reshaping business models and driving industry convergence while market cycles are shrinking from years to months to weeks.
How can companies survive these new waters and create long-term competitive advantage?
Ecosystem Collaboration - New Engines for Growth and Competitiveness in the D...accenture
Please visit: www.accenture.com/EcosystemCollaboration. Not too long ago, playing fields used to be neat. Bordered. Companies stayed within their industry lines, rarely venturing outside of them. But digital technology has changed all that, lowering entry and exit barriers to digitally contestable markets.
The increased complexity and potential of markets like these is requiring companies to make and execute corporate strategy differently. Welcome to a new age of competitiveness. Welcome to the age of the ecosystem.
The New World of As a Service - Infographicaccenture
The market is moving toward an As-a-Service delivery model that provides plug-in, scalable, consumption-based business services that deliver the business outcomes that every organization demands—increased revenue or decreased costs.
Accenture Technology Vision for Industrial 2016accenture
New technologies are not just transforming how industrial companies manufacture their products. They are also having a profound impact on workforce and marketplace dynamics, creating new pathways for collaboration – amongst people, machines and organizations. Increasingly, companies’ destinies will be defined by how successfully they use digital to reorient their workforces, enable collaboration and both anticipate and drive disruption.
Not your Father’s Business Model – Competitiveness in the Age of Digitalaccenture
Please visit: www.accenture.com/CompetitivenessInDigital. This is not your father’s business model. Back then, products and services enjoyed long, illustrious reign in the marketplace. Now, they appear and disappear overnight. That’s because digital is reshaping business models and driving industry convergence while market cycles are shrinking from years to months to weeks.
How can companies survive these new waters and create long-term competitive advantage?
Ecosystem Collaboration - New Engines for Growth and Competitiveness in the D...accenture
Please visit: www.accenture.com/EcosystemCollaboration. Not too long ago, playing fields used to be neat. Bordered. Companies stayed within their industry lines, rarely venturing outside of them. But digital technology has changed all that, lowering entry and exit barriers to digitally contestable markets.
The increased complexity and potential of markets like these is requiring companies to make and execute corporate strategy differently. Welcome to a new age of competitiveness. Welcome to the age of the ecosystem.
Unlocking the True Benefit of Software Defined Networkingaccenture
Accenture has the industry expertise, digital insight, technology experience, ecosystem partners and end-to-end solutions to help build your next-generation network.
Surviving the “Big Crunch” with insight-enabled decisions inside the plant gateaccenture
The "Big Bang" period of growth in the chemical industry resulting from the North American shale gas boom will likely be followed by a "Big Crunch." When this happens, chemical companies that embraced new, digital technologies to improve plant operations will have a competitive advantage.
Planning to Upskill Your Supply Chain Workforce? Six Solutions for Supply Cha...accenture
Driven by ever-evolving digital technologies, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is rapidly shifting from a more traditional, linear model to an integrated helix, enabling processes of speed, scale, intelligence and connectedness never seen before.
With change occurring at an unprecedented pace, it is more important than ever that supply chain workforces are continuously trained and educated on the latest processes, techniques and technologies. Organizations that ignore this basic prerequisite risk being left behind in an increasingly competitive environment.
Customized training from Accenture Academy can help you close the skills gap by delivering tailor-made learning packages for your supply chain workforce.
Learn more about Accenture Academy at http://bit.ly/2a34LGS
Accenture’s 2014 High Performance Finance Research shows that CFOs are concentrating on cost-effectively serving a worldwide consumer base while reducing operational spend.
For more information view us on www.accenture.com/ConsumerGoods
A new era for the chemicals industry: Cloud computing changes the gameaccenture
80% of chemical company executives expect cloud to generate highest ROI among digital technologies. Find out how we make that happen and where we see the industry heading.
Security in the driver's seat: Achieving cyber resilience in automotiveaccenture
Accenture's security research explains how automotive industries are achieving cyber resilience by implementing security into organizations. Read more.
100 insurance companies were surveyed to understand how they view their journey to operations maturity.
Our experience indicates that operations maturity can translate into tech-savvy ways to acquire customers faster or discover new revenue growth.
This means combining data, technology, processes and people into an intelligent, data-driven— and more resilient—operating model.
100 day plan - Technology Vision Australian Perspectiveaccenture
Put this 100-day plan into action to gain a deeper understanding of who your core users are and identify opportunities to better serve individual needs.
Accenture 2015 Global Risk Management Study: North American Banking Report Ke...accenture
Accenture’s 2015 Global Risk Management Study: North American Banking Report provides the insights of 50 banking industry executives from the retail, corporate, mortgage and card banking areas, including in-depth qualitative interviews with senior banking executives. Among the findings are three key challenges facing banks and their risk management functions today. See the attached presentation for more on the report's findings and insights. Visit www.accenture.com/riskstudy2015 to learn more.
Addressing Sales Practice and Conduct Risk in the Canadian Marketaccenture
In this new Accenture Finance & Risk presentation we discuss how Accenture can help Canadian banks effectively manage their reputation and conduct risk challenges. Learn more: https://accntu.re/2NHfWp2
Technology and communications companies have an unprecedented chance to seize the IoT moment. If they place the right bets, the payoff will be enormous. If they stumble, they will likely lose millions to competitors who made wiser strategic choices.
Understandably, many technology and communications companies are looking to develop IoT platforms. That’s probably not the smartest play. The greatest opportunity may lie in developing the software and analytics capabilities in those parts of the information chain they have already mastered. By building on their strengths, they can zero in on winnable—and lucrative—pockets of value.
Smarter Investments, Outstanding Results: Resources Industries Digital Transf...accenture
More than 200 senior technology leaders including CIOs, CDOs and CTOs from chemicals, energy, metals, mining and utilities industries participated in our global Digital Transformation survey. The key findings from the research are shared in this presentation and provide valuable insights into current and future transformational technology trends and plans.
Network Transformation Survey 2015 Final Resultsaccenture
Accenture Network Transformation Survey 2015 is based on 32 interviews with global CSPs’ and network executives as well as the Accenture CMT Digital Consumer Survey 2015.
Navigating the Crude Cycle: 4 lines of attack for US E&P energy companies to ...accenture
Read how US oil and gas independents can reduce their cost base while maintaining or improving asset reliability, integrity, and safety to navigate the crude oil cycle.
Unlocking the True Benefit of Software Defined Networkingaccenture
Accenture has the industry expertise, digital insight, technology experience, ecosystem partners and end-to-end solutions to help build your next-generation network.
Surviving the “Big Crunch” with insight-enabled decisions inside the plant gateaccenture
The "Big Bang" period of growth in the chemical industry resulting from the North American shale gas boom will likely be followed by a "Big Crunch." When this happens, chemical companies that embraced new, digital technologies to improve plant operations will have a competitive advantage.
Planning to Upskill Your Supply Chain Workforce? Six Solutions for Supply Cha...accenture
Driven by ever-evolving digital technologies, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is rapidly shifting from a more traditional, linear model to an integrated helix, enabling processes of speed, scale, intelligence and connectedness never seen before.
With change occurring at an unprecedented pace, it is more important than ever that supply chain workforces are continuously trained and educated on the latest processes, techniques and technologies. Organizations that ignore this basic prerequisite risk being left behind in an increasingly competitive environment.
Customized training from Accenture Academy can help you close the skills gap by delivering tailor-made learning packages for your supply chain workforce.
Learn more about Accenture Academy at http://bit.ly/2a34LGS
Accenture’s 2014 High Performance Finance Research shows that CFOs are concentrating on cost-effectively serving a worldwide consumer base while reducing operational spend.
For more information view us on www.accenture.com/ConsumerGoods
A new era for the chemicals industry: Cloud computing changes the gameaccenture
80% of chemical company executives expect cloud to generate highest ROI among digital technologies. Find out how we make that happen and where we see the industry heading.
Security in the driver's seat: Achieving cyber resilience in automotiveaccenture
Accenture's security research explains how automotive industries are achieving cyber resilience by implementing security into organizations. Read more.
100 insurance companies were surveyed to understand how they view their journey to operations maturity.
Our experience indicates that operations maturity can translate into tech-savvy ways to acquire customers faster or discover new revenue growth.
This means combining data, technology, processes and people into an intelligent, data-driven— and more resilient—operating model.
100 day plan - Technology Vision Australian Perspectiveaccenture
Put this 100-day plan into action to gain a deeper understanding of who your core users are and identify opportunities to better serve individual needs.
Accenture 2015 Global Risk Management Study: North American Banking Report Ke...accenture
Accenture’s 2015 Global Risk Management Study: North American Banking Report provides the insights of 50 banking industry executives from the retail, corporate, mortgage and card banking areas, including in-depth qualitative interviews with senior banking executives. Among the findings are three key challenges facing banks and their risk management functions today. See the attached presentation for more on the report's findings and insights. Visit www.accenture.com/riskstudy2015 to learn more.
Addressing Sales Practice and Conduct Risk in the Canadian Marketaccenture
In this new Accenture Finance & Risk presentation we discuss how Accenture can help Canadian banks effectively manage their reputation and conduct risk challenges. Learn more: https://accntu.re/2NHfWp2
Technology and communications companies have an unprecedented chance to seize the IoT moment. If they place the right bets, the payoff will be enormous. If they stumble, they will likely lose millions to competitors who made wiser strategic choices.
Understandably, many technology and communications companies are looking to develop IoT platforms. That’s probably not the smartest play. The greatest opportunity may lie in developing the software and analytics capabilities in those parts of the information chain they have already mastered. By building on their strengths, they can zero in on winnable—and lucrative—pockets of value.
Smarter Investments, Outstanding Results: Resources Industries Digital Transf...accenture
More than 200 senior technology leaders including CIOs, CDOs and CTOs from chemicals, energy, metals, mining and utilities industries participated in our global Digital Transformation survey. The key findings from the research are shared in this presentation and provide valuable insights into current and future transformational technology trends and plans.
Network Transformation Survey 2015 Final Resultsaccenture
Accenture Network Transformation Survey 2015 is based on 32 interviews with global CSPs’ and network executives as well as the Accenture CMT Digital Consumer Survey 2015.
Navigating the Crude Cycle: 4 lines of attack for US E&P energy companies to ...accenture
Read how US oil and gas independents can reduce their cost base while maintaining or improving asset reliability, integrity, and safety to navigate the crude oil cycle.
Data-Centric Insurance: How the London market can embrace analytics and regai...Accenture Insurance
The London Market has a long tradition of excellence in the
actuarial analysis of premiums and claims data, but it has not
yet embraced the analytics revolution seen in other industries.
For the London Market to remain globally competitive, it must
re-establish its pre-eminence regarding the use of data.
ERA's Purchasing update - Market Intelligence - from January 2017. Articles on Facilities Management, Water, Hybrid Mail, Food Costs, World-class Procurement, High Value Card Transactions, along with other areas of interest.
This Seminar will initiate a reflection regarding the extent to which innovation within the Financial Technology (FinTech) sector can and should be regulated.
The case will be illustrated with examples of the UK and EU market (e.g. the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s Project ‘Innovate’ and the European Commission’s Single European Payment Area (SEPA)) and the implications for innovation will be discussed.
This will be complemented by introducing an Asian perspective as to the capacity of specific jurisdictions to frame and catalyse innovation, focusing on specific challenges and opportunities in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets: A PerspectiveCognizant
For the financial services industry, the adoption of cloud services has become a viable business directive. As firms work to recoup their losses from the recent financial crisis, pay-as-you-go cloud services allow them to focus more on strategic, innovative and revenue-generating endeavors and less on managing routine IT activities and the supporting infrastructure.
Best Hadoop Institutes : kelly tecnologies is the best Hadoop training Institute in Bangalore.Providing hadoop courses by realtime faculty in Bangalore.
How big data analytics can optimize the telecom sector GlobalTechCouncil
We are in the era of Big data. Big data is presenting excellent optimizing opportunities to the companies in various sectors. Big data when analyzed well, can provide actionable insights that aids in devising strategies to optimize multiple business processes.
Big data has become an essential part of the telecom industry due to the enormous amount of data being generated by the telecom world. Telecom operators are sitting on gold mines as the smart devices have enabled the telecom operators to gain access to specific information about their customers’ behavior, preferences, movement, etc.
Reincarnating traditional infrastructure outsourcingNIIT Technologies
Ever since Traditional Outsourcing has gone almost extinct, enterprises are focusing on investing more in next-generation service providers that can provide them flexibility and agility to match the ever changing dynamics of business. This paper highlights how and why traditional infrastructure outsourcing market is shrinking dramatically. It also explains how the new age vendors can adapt to new technology to provide benefits to Gen 2.0 clients.
Next Wave of Fintech: Redefining Financial Services through TechnologyRobin Teigland
The Stockholm School of Economics and PA Consulting present The Next wave of Fintech, a sequel to the 2015 Stockholm Fintech Report, focusing on the new InsurTech and RegTech segments. The report, which describes and quantifies the Swedish market for these segments, contains valuable insights and recommendations for decision makers at banks, incubators, startup companies, public authorities and investors.
Regulators on the Move – Recent Treasury and Comptroller Actions: How They Af...Winston & Strawn LLP
The U.S. Treasury and Comptroller of the Currency recently published reports and announced major initiatives of impact to financial institutions. What should directors know about these initiatives and how do they impact financial institution strategy? This webinar discussed those issues, addressed likely competition from fintech firms, and focused on the following topics:
- U.S. Department of the Treasury report on “Nonbank - Financial, Fintech, and Innovation”
OCC’s fintech charter
- Recent efforts by institutions to eliminate holding company regulations
Contact Winston & Strawn for more information about this presentation:
https://www.winston.com/en/thought-leadership/regulators-on-the-move-recent-treasury-and-comptroller-actions-how-they-affect-you.html
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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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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 ...
Research_Papers10.1.1.390.9459.pdfAssociation for Informa.docxbrittneyj3
Research_Papers/10.1.1.390.9459.pdf
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
contact [email protected]
Recommended Citation
Farhoomand, Ali and Huang, Minyi, "Does IT Payoff? Strategies of Two Banking Giants" (2007). ICIS 2007 Proceedings. Paper 3.
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2007/3
http://aisel.aisnet.org
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2007
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis
mailto:[email protected]
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.
Blockchain Smart Contracts - getting from hype to reality Capgemini
The potential of smart contracts – programmable contracts that automatically execute when pre-defined conditions are met – is the subject of much debate and discussion in the financial services industry. Smart contracts, enabled by blockchain or distributed ledgers, have been held up as a cure for many of the problems associated with traditional financial contracts, which are simply not geared up for the digital age. Reliance on physical documents leads to delays, inefficiencies and increases exposure to errors and fraud. Financial intermediaries, while providing interoperability for the
finance system and reducing risk, create overhead costs for and increase compliance requirements.
In this report, we aim to cut through the speculation and hype around the potential of smart contracts. We have conducted detailed discussions with financial services industry professionals, prominent smart contract startups and academics (see Research Methodology at the end of this paper). Our study confirms that smart contract adoption will lead to reduced risks, lower administration and service costs, and more efficient business processes across all major segments of the financial services industry. These benefits will accrue from technology, process redesign as well as from fundamental changes in operating models, as they require a group of firms to share a common view of the contract between trading parties. Consumers will benefit from more competitive products, such as mortgage loans and insurance policies, along with simpler processes that are free of many of the hassles of today’s customer experience.
Smart Contracts in Financial Services: Getting from Hype to Reality. Reporteraser Juan José Calderón
Smart Contracts in Financial Services: Getting from Hype to Reality.
Executive Summary
The potential of smart contracts – programmable contracts that automatically execute when pre-defi ned conditions are met – is the subject of much debate and discussion in the fi nancial services industry.
Smart contracts, enabled by blockchain or distributed ledgers, have been held up as a cure for many of the problems associated with traditional fi nancial contracts, which are simply not geared up for the digital age. Reliance on physical documents leads to delays, ineffi ciencies and increases exposure to errors and fraud. Financial intermediaries, while providing interoperability for the fi nance system and reducing risk, create overhead costs for and increase compliance requirements.
In this report, we aim to cut through the speculation and hype around the potential of smart contracts. We have conducted detailed discussions with fi nancial services industry professionals, prominent smart contract startups, and academics (see Research Methodology at the end of this paper). Our study confi rms that smart contract adoption will lead to reduced risks, lower administration and service costs, and more effi cient business processes across all major segments of the fi nancial services industry. These benefi ts will accrue from technology, process redesign as well as from fundamental changes in operating models, as they require a group of fi rms to share a common view of the contract between trading parties. Consumers will benefi t from more competitive products, such as mortgage loans and insurance policies, along with simpler processes that are free of many of the hassles of today’s customer experience.
Optimizing the Internet of Things: Key Strategies for Commercial InsurersCognizant
The Internet of Things (IoT) is having a significant effect on both consumer-facing and commercial enterprises. At the consumer level, this can be seen in the increasing number of sensor-based smart devices flooding the marketplace. Yet the biggest economic impact is in the industrial and service-based segments, including commercial insurance. By aligning their business requirements with the capabilities of the Internet of Things, insurers can sharpen operational efficiencies, open new revenue streams, drive profitable growth and keep customers close.
Embracing Digital Convergence amid Regulatory-Driven OverhaulsCognizant
Facing a wave of regulatory changes, including EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), banks and other financial institutions are wise to coordinate regulatory implementation with digital transformation to deliver value throughout their ecosystem.
Similar to Top Ten Challenges for Investment Banks 2015: Revolution: Challenge 10 (20)
Engineering Services: con gli ingegneri per creare valore sostenibileaccenture
Collaboriamo con gli ingegneri di aziende capital intensive per combinare tecnologie innovative con un approccio pragmatico che aiuti a raggiungere risultati aziendali migliori.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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Bob Boule
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Top Ten Challenges for Investment Banks 2015: Revolution: Challenge 10
1. Utilities: Creating a role in
the fabric of the industry
Top Ten Challenges for
Investment Banks 2015
10
Utilities:Creatinga
roleinthefabricof
theindustry
2. 10
Utilities:
Creating a role in the fabric of the industry
Increased regulation, tighter margins and ever-changing market
conditions are exerting growing pressure on investment banks
to focus on returns, rather than just revenues. It is essential that
investment banks seek to cut costs whilst addressing increased
data management burdens and tackling the challenges and
restrictions imposed by new regulations.
Many firms have reached a limit on the
benefits of offshoring and outsourcing for
cost efficiency and require a new model for
reducing costs. There is also an increasing
realisation that standards (for example, a
Legal Entity Identifier) will play an
important role in the emerging ecosystem,
as they will allow for greater
“interoperability” across firms. Finally, there
is an increasing realisation that, for many
firms, achieving cost reduction through
internal scale cannot be fully achieved with
in-house shared services.
Therefore, Accenture believes the market is
now ready to embrace utilities to meet
these goals by adopting industry-wide
collaborative approaches. The industry has
periodically created utilities in the past (e.g.
depositories) and it appears we are entering
the next wave of innovation in the form of
a new breed of utilities (see Fig. 1).
The emergence of utilities
The concept of shared utilities is not new
and has been applied in industries outside
of investment banking with great success.
A utility in this context is an entity created
by a variety of industry participants to
create efficiencies by collectively
performing a set of non-differentiating
functions that are similar across the
member companies. Over the years,
investment banks have created utilities or
shared platforms in selected domains but,
up until now, core securities processing
capabilities have been excluded from these
approaches. The post-financial crisis cost
pressures have served to highlight the
opportunities for utilities to reduce costs,
2
3. 3
The concept of shared utilities is
not new and has been applied in
industries outside of investment
banking with great success.
Figure 1: Evolution of the utility concept in capital markets
Source: Accenture Research
2013
• April - Basel III implementation extended from 2015 to 2018
• DTCC acquires full control of Omgeo from Thomson Reuters
• DTCC signs MOU with multiple banks for a reference data
regulatory and business requirements utility
• Bloomberg leverages data into a “reference data solution”
Polar Lake
• Markit expands reference data into 5 “utility” offerings
• Markit announced plans to launch a KYC Utility with HSBC
Morgan Stanley
• LEI standars begin taking shape in Washington London:
OpenCorporates launches OpenLEIs.com
1968 – 1970
Centralized
Certificate Service
(CCS) formed at the
NYSE and extended
to the ASE in 1970
1976
National
Securities
Clearing
Corporation
formed
2003
Fixed Income
Clearing
Corporation
formed in 2003 by
combining the
Government
Securities Clearing
Corporation and
the Mortgage-
Backed Securities
Corporation
2008
Financial crisis
leads to
beginning of
stronger
regulatory
oversight in U.S.
Europe
2009
June - Financial
reform introduced
by the Obama
Administration
December - Final
version of Financial
Reform Bill called
Dodd Frank
introduced to
Senate The House
2012
August - EMIR is
in force
Euroclear and
Smartstream
announce
collaboration for
the “first”
reference data
utility called
Central Data
Utility (CDU)
2014
• January - EMIR Central Clearing Regulations (CCR) come
into force
• February - EMIR reporting obligations begin
• Goldensource IBM announce collaboration for shared
utilities offering
• Swift acquires Omnicision to create a KYC and AML data
solutions and reference data product for LEI, Business
Identification Codes, and International Bank Account Numbers
• Financial InterGroup begins advocating for an independent
Utility citiing the number of vendors entering the space will
create greater chaos.
• “European Central Bank proposed central data utility - Issuers
would be mandated to deliver corporate event data and
reference data to the utility with data vendors helping issuers
fulfill their legal requirement to send standardized data to the
repository.”
• Retailers Banks form partnership for information exchange
to ward of cyber threats, post Target breach
• Thomson Reuters announces UK reference data utility
1973
Depository
Trust
Corporation
formed
2001
DTCC and Thomson
Reuters form JV
Omgeo for
post-trade
processing to
improve settlement
times and decrease
counterparty risk
2004
Basell II enacted
- slow to
implement until
2008 financial
crisis
2008
Markit introduces
Markit RED as a
Reference Entity
Database for
documentation and
confirmation in
credit derivatives
transactions
2010
January - Volker
Rule ammendment
added to Dodd
Frank by the
Obama
Administration
July - Dodd Frank
signed into law
Basel III agreement
4. achieve standardisation of processes,
mutualise risk and increase service
quality in these core processing domains.
Currently, some of the key challenges
that banks face are related to data
management: poor data quality,
inconsistencies, poor standards across
source systems and consumers, and a
lack of transparency around costs.
Accenture estimates that data-related IT
expenditure represents approximately
8% of revenue on average across the
larger investment banks (see Fig. 2), with
Burton-Taylor predicting reference data
spend alone reaching upwards of $1.8
billion in 2014. With data burdens
growing organically and now
accelerating due to changing
regulations, the market has responded.
Costs and benefits of utility adoption
The potential benefits of utility creation
are without question. By embracing
utility usage, banks will be able to ensure
that duplication of effort is minimised, in
turn allowing a shift of resource to areas
of greater value. In addition, bringing
together the operations of a number of
organisations can further enhance cost
savings by ensuring economies of scale,
and the establishing of best practices
and industry standards.
According to our estimates, the use of
utilities can achieve cost savings of
$40-50m annually per firm among the
top 20 global investment banks for
reference data alone. Eventually, greater
cost efficiencies can be achieved once
market participants realise that certain
core functions, such as reconciliations,
could also be performed by utilities
without degrading competitive positions.
As transaction volume has improved,
transaction profitability has been under
pressure – driving the need for scalability
and the deployment of infrastructure
whose costs can adjust to market
volumes. Accenture Post-Trade Processing
is an innovative solution which will help
banks reduce post-trade processing costs,
including minimising future change
spend, adapt to new regulations and
increase speed to market, leveraging
proven, market relevant technology.
We estimate that the utility has the
potential to realise a reduction in costs
per trade of up to 30-50% (see Fig. 3).
4
By transferring the fixed cost model
currently employed by banks to a
variable cost model, clients will see
a decline in the marginal costs per
trade for every additional bank that
joins the service, benefiting both
new entrants and incumbents.
Challenges opportunities
The use of a utility does not remove
any of the regulatory responsibilities
borne by banks. However, utility
adoption improves data quality
through increased volume of
participant inputs, which in turn
improves reporting to regulators. A
further potential benefit is to create
industry best practices as a means
of driving standards, which is being
seen with various industry entities
such as SIFMA, DTCC etc., as
opposed to responding to
sometimes misguided regulatory
mandates. Finally, from a regulatory
perspective, moving day-to-day
processing functions to the utility
model allows banks to focus on the
control and governance functions
Figure 2: Estimated Data IT spend across selected investment banks, as % of revenue
Source: Banks, Accenture Research
• Goldman Sachs
• JP Morgan
• Morgan Stanley
• Credit Suisse
• Bank of America*
• Average
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
* Bank of America is the only bank to report
Enterprise Data Management (EDM) spend
as separate line item – all other banks are
estimated based on total IT spend
5. 5
required to meet the regulatory
requirements of the firm’s activity.
The next challenge, which is actually an
opportunity, is the creation of the first
true market utility for financial services,
as a neutral party that is not viewed as
a disruptive force in the industry. To
date there have been several examples
of private vendors attempting to build a
market utility, only to fail due to the
markets’ lack of trust. Accenture
believes market participants have the
opportunity to create consortia for utility
functions which will be viewed as
neutral, third parties benefiting all in
terms of data quality, lower costs, and
improved regulatory reporting.
Conclusion
Utilities are potentially the next
meaningful opportunity for banks to cut
costs significantly while improving data
quality, and to create data standards
around which the industry and regulators
can coordinate, in contrast to the
regulation/reaction cycle of today’s
world. Regulatory burdens are
continually on the rise, data volumes
and management costs are
continuously increasing, and banks
need to find a mechanism that
enables them to achieve cost
reductions and efficiencies at a time
when targets are set around returns
rather than revenue.
Utility services provide banks with a
great opportunity to improve data
quality and coordinate each
organisation’s best practices to set an
industry standard. The opportunity
exists for a number of banks to
collaborate, establish a leading utility
provider, and then profit from other
organisations who wish to use the
service. The challenge remains in
finding those organisations that are
willing and able to make the first
move. From Accenture’s perspective
the choice is simple: choose to lead
the transformation and have the first
mover advantage, or get left behind.
The opportunity
exists for a number of
market participants to
collaborate, establish a
leading utility provider,
and then profit from
other organisations who
wish to use the service.
Figure 3: Industry Cost Curve example – Equities
Source: Accenture Research
Cost per
trade (£)
Transaction
VolumesFirms outside Top 5 Position of Top 5 Firms
Typical Cost Position of
Prospects for the utility
Top 5 Position
Top 5 Position
Cost Position of
Largest Firm
0.10
x1 x2 x8
Downward per transaction cost pressure
allows clients to achieve the cost profile
of a large securities house