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Financial Services Information Systems

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The calculus of IT support for the banking, securities, and insurance industries has changed dramatically and rapidly over the past few years. Consolidation and deregulation are creating opportunities and challenges never before seen. Unheard of just a few years ago, e-commerce has given birth to new infrastructures and departments needed to support them. And the Internet/Intranet/Extranet triple-whammy is the most critical component of most financial IT shops. At the same time, new intelligent agents stand ready to take on such diverse functions as customer profiling and data mining.
Get a handle on all these new and newer ripples with Financial Services Information Systems. Here, in this exhaustive new guide and reference book, industry guru Jessica Keyes gives you the no-nonsense scoop on not just the tried and true IT tools of today, but also the up-and-coming "hot" technologies of tomorrow, and how to plan for them.
Financial Services Information Systems addresses challenges and solutions associated with:
supporting the self-service revolution by servicing kiosks and ATMs efficiently and economically,
straight-through processing for the securities industry,
outsourcing business communications in the insurance industry,
distributed integration as a cost-effective alternative to data warehousing, and
putting inbound fax automation to work in financial organizations.

Prefacep. xv
Technology Trends in Financial Servicesp. 1
The "Must-Have" Guide to Total Quality for the Financial Service Managerp. 3
Distributed Integration: An Alternative to Data Warehousingp. 43
Windows Distributed interNet Architecture for Financial Servicesp. 55
Evaluation of Financial Analysis and Application Prototyping Environmentsp. 69
Customer Profiling for Financial Servicesp. 91
Business Rule Systemsp. 105
Customer Data Quality: The Foundation for a One-to-One Customer Relationshipp. 121
A History of Knowledge-Based Systems in Financial Servicesp. 137
The Unfolding of Wireless Technology in the Financial Services Industryp. 161
Personal Financial Appliancesp. 171
Putting Inbound Fax Automation to Work in the Financial Organizationp. 189
Extranets for Financial Servicesp. 195
Designing a High-Performance, High-Availability Network Infrastructurep. 203
Applications of GIS Technology in Financial Servicesp. 211
Designing and Implementing a Virus Prevention Policy in Financial Services Organizations: Key Issues and Critical Needsp. 217
Voice Over ATMp. 229
Toward a More Perfect Union: The European Monetary Conversion and Its Impact on Information Technologyp. 237
Systems that Build Themselves: Anatomy of a Development Before the Fact (DBTE) Software Engineering Methodologyp. 249
Multimedia-Based Training (MBT) for Financial Servicesp. 333
Law (or Lack of It) on the Web: A Primer for Financial Services Technology Managersp. 347
Using Net-Based Interactive Technology for Online Marketing, Sales, and Support of Financial Services Firmsp. 377
Internet Security Analysis Report: An Executive Overviewp. 395
Multicast Applications and Technology for the Financial Services Industryp. 403
An Introduction to the Internet for Financial Services Developersp. 425
Introduction to E-commercep. 441
Transactional Application Servers: Providing the Scalability for Global Electronic Businessp. 451
Enterprise Application Integration in Financial Servicesp. 469
Spreadsheets as Containers of Malicious Payloadsp. 485
Growth Optimal Asset Allocation Strategies with Downside Protectionp. 497
Quadratic Programming for Large-Scale Portfolio Optimizationp. 513
Risk Management Meets Customer Relationship Management: Closing the Data Mining Loop with DCOM and Visual Basicp. 531
Java-Based Application Servers for the Financial Sectorp. 539
Banking Trends in Technologyp. 551
Grab a Ringside Seat for the Best of Banking Technologyp. 555
Banking Technology in Emerging Marketsp. 565
Going Global: Systems Issues for Servicing a Global Businessp. 571
A Brief Case History in Internet Bankingp. 581
How "Internet Bill Presentment" Changes the Deployment Strategy of Homebanking and Online Paymentp. 587
The Self-Service Revolution: Harnessing the Power of Kiosks and ATMsp. 605
Checking It Twice: Check Imaging Systems Offer Greater Flexibility and Efficiencyp. 613
Internet Banking: Leveling the Playing Field for Community Banksp. 621
Straight Talk on SET: Challenges and Opportunities from a Business Perspectivep. 631
Retail Delivery: A Common Strategy Amidst An Uncommon Worldp. 641
Growing Your Virtual Branch: Strategies for Successful Internet Bankingp. 649
Selecting and Implementing a Treasury Workstation: The Amway Experiencep. 655
Securities Trends in Technologyp. 667
The Future of the Securities Industry: Convergence of Trust and Brokeragep. 669
A Portfolio Management System for the Twenty-First Centuryp. 679
Logging Monitoring in the Financial Services Industryp. 693
Straight Through Processingp. 705
Designing and Evaluating Investment Performance Systemsp. 717
Building an Internet Strategy for Full-Service Brokersp. 731
Middleware Standards in Capital Marketsp. 737
The Broker Desktop: The Future of Trading Has Arrivedp. 745
Insurance Trends in Technologyp. 755
Outsourcing Business Communications in the Insurance Industryp. 757
New Business Model for Insurance Industry Demands a New Automation Modelp. 763
The Internet and Evolving Technology: Changing How Insurance Companies Service and Operatep. 769
Produce Management Systems: The Need for Automation and Integrationp. 773
Understanding and Implementing Business Intelligence Solutions in the Insurance Industryp. 785
Appendixp. 805
Selected Products Briefsp. 807
About the Editorp. 901
Indexp. 903
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ISBN: 9780849398346
ISBN-10: 0849398347
Series: Best Practices
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 952
Published: 24th March 2000
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.6  x 5.7
Weight (kg): 1.429