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In a competitive landscape that favors the fastest and the smartest, financial services firms that invest in building sophisticated insight and predictive analytics will be better positioned to emerge as market leaders. Forward thinking banks will use this strategic insight driver to: Attract and retain customers; Develop new sources of revenue; Streamline operations; and Proactively address risk and regulatory requirements.

For improved operating leverage, increased flexibility and sustainable competitive differentiation, this paper will argue that successful approaches to core systems modernization are always progressive - treating modernization as a journey rather than a fixed end-state.

The IBM Compliance Information Lifecycle Management solution both provides complete clarity and robust, automated processes around compliance, and significantly improves operational efficiency in compliance and IT, reduces the size and cost of the IT infrastructure, and delivers integration of information across functional silos.

Beyond compliance: An opportunity to improve revenue and profitability with smarter banking. Discover the potential value of smarter risk management for your bank. Smarter risk management is a major topic of interest throughout the worldwide banking community, one with its own unique transformational power.

This paper discusses the demand-side issues preventing mobile payments ecosystems from reaching scale in developed markets and provides linkages to how these issues influenced the business design of large-scale ecosystems in emerging markets.