Bob Scanlon, Group Chief Credit Officer for Standard Chartered Bank and one of the industry’s most experienced credit professionals, offers his unique and engaging perspective on risk management at a recent Intel fasterCITY event in London. View the video.
Posts Tagged ‘Bank’
Risk Management Perspectives
Monday, September 14th, 2009bank zweiplus Rapidly Gains Ground
Thursday, July 16th, 2009To launch the new bank zweiplus for private affluent customers in a joint venture with AIG Private Bank, Bank Sarasin took the lead in benchmarking the performance of HP Integrity* rx8640 servers powered by Intel® Itanium® processor 9100 series to see if they could handle the projected 30 million transactions and fulfill the requirements of bank zweiplus. Read bank zweiplus Rapidly Gains Ground (293KB, PDF) to see how the Intel Itanium processor-based servers have helped them grow to approximately 300,000 clients and EUR 3.8 billion of assets under management in just six months after launch.
Banking on Remote Support
Thursday, July 16th, 2009Managing thousands of PCs, including 23,000 desktop PCs across 4,200 branches required intensive management by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) with the frequent remote data and application updates and security patches. If an upgrade failed, not only did IT support need to be engaged, but branch employees were often distracted from their primary work of supporting customers. View Banking on Remote Support (161KB, PDF) to see how BBVA got a handle on managing their large installed base of PCs and improved cost savings and staff productivity.
The Power to Perform Now with Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processors (Nehalem)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Mohamed Elrefai, GTSI’s Vice President, Enterprise Solutions Group and Marketing, shares how the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series addresses the federal market’s concerns about energy-efficiency, performance, security, virtualization and more. (more…)
Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Monday, April 27th, 2009Wall Street Systems, who help financial institutions and other enterprises improve their workflows and increase control of corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading, and global back office operations, found their clients wanted the ability to replace their SPARC* and specialized UNIX* boxes with off-the-shelf Intel systems. By offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux* versions of its best-selling financial applications, Wall Street Systems could create new revenue streams and sharpen its ability to compete aggressively against other financial software firms in its increasingly cost-conscious market niche. They also found they could cut costs itself by streamlining international operations. Read the case study. (more…)
GigaSpaces: A Scalable, Cost-Effective Stack for Highly Concurrent Financial Services Applications
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Intel, Sun and GigaSpaces have partnered to offer an optimized hardware and middleware stack, targeted at the unique needs of banks, capital market firms, insurance companies and other financial institutions. The platform was tested with highly concurrent risk management, real-time analytics and online applications, typical with financial services companies. This case study describes how this very scalable solution provides both low latency and high throughput in both HPC and online application environments. (more…)
Bank NISP Deploys Intel® Multi-Core Xeon® Processors and Increases Performance
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008With the successful deployment of blade server systems based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, Indonesia-based Bank NISP has effectively buffered itself against increased business demands and laid the groundwork for further service expansion, distinguishing itself from the competition. Read how Bank NISP increased performance in this case study. (more…)