Category Archives: Real Time Decisioning
Ideal Banking Data Warehousing project: 10 steps for setting the right pace
Data Warehousing in a banking context is meant to consolidate disparate data across siloed systems and churn decision enabling information from the consolidated data. Although a Data Warehouse can address data consolidation issues, it cannot be a magic wand for … Continue reading
‘Level-relevant’ dashboards for delivering effective intelligence
A dashboard is a device which displays the general performance indicators, key performance indicators, and any other relevant information to a business user. In a bank, dashboards are built for users, across strategic and operational functions.
Basel I to Basel II – The evolution of Risk Management Standards
Basel II was introduced in the year 2005 to address new risks which had arisen in the world of Banking. Credit Risk was enhanced to evaluate risk at client level for wholesale banking while Basel I evaluated it at a … Continue reading
Expanding business using Business Intelligence: A Trade Finance case in point
Business Intelligence (BI) has conventionally been used to increase revenue & profits while delivering greater customer value by means of managing geographies, product portfolios, customer segments & costs more efficiently. Business Intelligence has also been used to increase the share-of-wallet … Continue reading
White paper: Basel III – An easy to understand summary
Basel II was introduced in the year 2005 to address new risks which had arisen in the world of Banking. Credit Risk was enhanced to evaluate risk at client level for wholesale banking while Basel I evaluated it at a … Continue reading
Interview: Banking Payments Asia: Better navigation in a challenging environment
Technology keeps revolutionizing the retail banking industry, and data analytics seems to sit at its core.Given increasingly complex processes, organisational structures and regulations, business intelligence is becoming a vital tool for senior executives. Thomas Zink speaks to Vivek Subramanyam, CEO … Continue reading
White paper: Business Intelligence for Central Banks: Powering mission-critical information management
It may sound clichéd, but Central Banks truly are the heart and soul of any nation’s economy. They are the extended arm of the government and strategize, plan, implement,monitor and control various aspects of the economy. It is very difficult … Continue reading
Fintelekt in conversation with Ravi Raman, Chief Solution Evangelist
Banking and Insurance research specialist speaks with Ravi about the challenges facing the Indian banking sector, technologies that it should be leveraging and Basel III in the Indian context.
Integrated Stress Testing Architecture: the need for a consolidated, future-proof framework
Risk-control assessment in financial institutions should not just be limited to identifying failures in processes and exposure levels. It must also perform routine ‘what-if’ analyses to stress test the changes in capital requirements. An ideal stress testing solution requires integrated … Continue reading
Business Intelligence in Banks – a journey, rather than an end state
A bank is a complex behemoth of inter-connected information. At the base level, there are key metrics defined for everyone; increasing the customer base for the Retail Sales head, managing customer litigations for the Legal team, adhering to the regulatory … Continue reading