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Much has been written about Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) and its potential to herald a new era of open banking where banks no longer have a monopoly on payment services. Instead they will be forced to provide full access to customer accounts to third parties looking to provide financial services of their own, on top of banks’ existing data and infrastructure. All of this could prove to be true, just not on January 13th 2018, the deadline for national governments to transpose PSD2 into law. This is because there is still so much to be decided and clarified. The European Banking Authority’s longawaited regulatory technical standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) were issued in March 2017 but missing some of the finer details, such as the methods to remotely access customer data and account information and the measures around the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) and screen-scraping.

This white paper outlines these challenges and provides a clear path to providing the accelerated insight needed to perform in today's complicated business environment to reduce risk, stop fraud and increase profits.

This white paper outlines these challenges and provides a clear path to providing the accelerated insight needed to perform in today's complicated business environment to reduce risk, stop fraud and increase profits.

Compliance and financial risk used to be the driving concerns for security and risk management. Read how managing risk today means making sense of more data: vulnerability scans, application and database logs, flows, access and session records, alerts, and trending analysis.

Learn how leading companies employ Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software to automate financial processes (budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and planning) that spreadsheets complete on a manual basis and reap the rewards of advanced data analysis.

Understanding the data you have and put it to effective use is now more crucial than ever. The key differentiator between the leaders and laggards in financial services today is how skillfully they turn data into useful information and fuel success.

In 2014, data breaches compromised over 700 million records with financial losses estimated to be at least $400 million – and security incidents grew up to 66 percent. But don’t allow fear to stifle growth. The “Data Theft Prevention” report focuses on how to stay secure while you innovate from a broader, in-scope, more intelligent in application perspective.

The financial and legal ramifications of the high-profile cyber-incidents that happened in the past year send an unmistakable message: data theft is too important for a board of directors not to be involved. The “Cybersecurity and Data Theft Prevention” report provides a non-technical overview every board of directors can use to assess their organization’s security posture

The concept of integrated business planning — closing gaps in an organization’s various planning functions and aligning operations and strategy with its financial performance — has existed in various forms for decades. What has changed is creation of planning platforms that can handle the fluidity of data to erase silos and enterprise borders where once there were multiple geographies, departments, time zones, languages and currencies. All elements of business are managing the avalanche of information coming to them. Just like connecting disparate people, we also must connect data that resides in various systems, applications and tools.

For many years, large corporations have employed financial planning and analysis professionals to oversee budgeting, planning, forecasting and analysis. But the sea-change in technology, data and the competitive landscape is having a sustained impact on the FP&A function as it transforms from a predominately budgeting function to a forward-focussed strategic contributor. Now, as new cloud technology makes implementing modern FP&A quicker and cheaper, the function has become more accessible to medium-sized, or even smaller, organisations. There is a nascent but growing realisation that this corner of the finance function should be demanding more of an organisation’s attention, large or small, because having accurate and timely visibility, further into the future, could mean the difference between success and failure in today’s highly uncertain and volatile business environment.

The digital revolution has left no part of business untouched. The traditional world of CFO's is evolving fast - not only because technology enables them to perform their duties more effectively, but also because the next generation of CFOs are steadily making their way into the boardroom. And they are going to drive change even faster. This was an issue that was high on the agenda for our client, one of the world's largest multinational conglomerates. They could see that CEO's of the group's businesses were relying increasingly on the financial insight of their CFOs to help shape business direction strategy. CFOs, therefore, need to ensure that they are equipped with technology and data to fulfill this new and demanding role.

All accounting procedures, especially remittance and AR/AP processing, are critical to any organization’s financial well-being. Manual data entry of invoices is an inefficient, expensive, labor intensive and often errorprone process. Slow and mistake-laden document processing lengthens payment cycles, reduces staff productivity, adds late payment penalties and causes missed early payment discounts

An effective rolling forecast is important to estimate long term financial plans. Every organization undertakes this process as a finance activity. However, when the forecasted data is examined on its effectiveness for decision making, more often than not the results are disappointing, and the rolling forecast process needs to be redefined. This paper talks about effective rolling forecasts that utilize resources, technologies, processes, and business intelligence to deliver actionable insights. A best-in-class matured RF process will enable CFOs to deliver great results through increased revenue and cost reductions, and create new benchmarks for the organization.

This paper focuses on Data Domain technology leadership and differentiation and why it matters to you. The purpose of this paper is to explore the technical and financial reasons why Data Domain systems are ideal for backup and archiving in your environment.

Learn how a complete fixed asset solution can help save your company time and money.

Financial services organizations have a unique relationship with technology: electronic data and transactions are the core of this industry. Financial services firms remain vigilant because they are constantly under attack. Hackers that gain access to customer accounts or financial data can profit either by using it themselves or by selling it to other criminal organizations. - There are many differences between perception and reality when it comes to security in this industry. For example, its emphasis on fraud prevention creates the perception that financial services is highly evolved in terms of its security readiness. However, this study finds that financial services firms’ security is on a par with the security of firms in other industries. - Regulations may lead to change and investments, but they also take time to take effect. Organizations should not wait for such requirements before they make improvements. Neither should they assume that compliance gives them full protection. Regulations cannot cover every aspect in such a fast-paced environment.

Learn how a financial services company can retain critical customer assets, and their method for predicting customers that will transfer assets in and out of accounts and the expected amounts.

Learn the recommendations to meet the following challenges: Financial services firms are deploying private clouds and PaaS to improve IT manageability and to empower developers, but still need to manage and monitor legacy environments and third party applications Many firms are adopting PaaS to manage microservices and break down legacy applications into discrete components, resulting in many more endpoints to make discoverable, secure, connect, manage and monitor Applications and container technologies deployed on the PaaS may lack the ability to generate “machine data”--detailed information on memory utilization, system resources, endpoint analysis and other critical monitoring statistics

Improving data management is critical for streamlining regulatory reporting, monetizing customer analytics, and democratizing data-driven decision-making. Financial firms must transform their data management approach to unlock data from its silos, incorporate unstructured information from non-traditional sources, and integrate information whether on-premises, in the cloud, batch-based, or real-time. As this evolution continues, technology leaders must consider integration holistically across the enterprise and create an agility layer that is key to future-proofing their data management architecture. Read this whitepaper to learn: -Data management challenges in financial services -Best practices to manage data in financial institutions -Integration strategies for optimal data management

Some financial professionals store or share terabytes of electronic information, including quarterly reports, billing statements or even sensitive personal data belonging to clients. Read this e-Book to better understand your security risks. You’ll learn: • The common challenges of data security • Steps to solve these challenges • And much more

Some financial professionals store or share terabytes of electronic information, including quarterly reports, billing statements or even sensitive personal data belonging to clients. Read this e-Book to better understand your security risks. You’ll learn: • The common challenges of data security • Steps to solve these challenges • And much more

Some financial professionals store or share terabytes of electronic information, including quarterly reports, billing statements or even sensitive personal data belonging to clients. Read this e-Book to better understand your security risks. You’ll learn: • The common challenges of data security • Steps to solve these challenges • And much more

Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by shifting some or all their management and operations from on-premises, hosted, and outsourced implementations to Azure’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering. The purpose of this study is to give readers a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact, or ROI, of leveraging Azure IaaS for their organizations. Benefits gained by interviewed customers that migrated or re-architected some or all workloads from on-premises to IaaS include: › Greater revenue opportunities from business-to-business (B2B) and customer web channels with a solution that is more mobile and reliable, and meets scale and seasonality needs. › Increased profits from those revenues. › Improved production efficiency. › Reduced datacenter, IT resource, and outsourcing costs. › Easier and faster software and hardware management (such as p

Today financial services institutions must meet the standards for data quality attestation by the FFEIC regulators of risk reporting. This paper discusses the platform and domain expertise needed to support the rigorous demands of commercial and retail risk reporting.

Technology has helped financial institutions work harder and faster than ever before. The downside: Sensitive data is more vulnerable than ever before. Financial Insights offers ideas and solutions to improve Information Security (IS). Click to learn more on protecting your most important assets, your data.