Opinion Pieces for BFSI
iPads and the Modern Banker - do the Benefits Outweigh the Challenges?by Tony Virdi, Vice President of Cognizant’s Banking and Financial Services Practice, UK and Ireland
Given the current economic climate, there is a greater need for banks to grow revenues and provide better customer service. iPads, and other similar tablets, have the potential to transform banks’ working practices to become more collaborative and dynamic. Typically tablet users have greater access to information with better graphics and analytics to support decision making that can be built into a business process workflow....
more Outsourcing For Grown Ups: Why You Should Invest In Professionalisation.
by Martyn Hart
When was the last time you heard someone - a child, a student, a young professional, someone wanting a career change – say that they wanted to become an outsourcer? Let me guess… never? Outsourcing is never short of column inches, is discussed in cabinet meetings, is seemingly permanently in the limelight, yet no-one grows up wanting to be an outsourcer. Outsourcing’s ascension to the status of accountancy, law, medicine – a proper, ‘professional’ profession – is long overdue.
more Security in Outsourcing
by Ivan Gavrilyuk, CIO, Luxoft
Data security in outsourcing arrangements has long been an issue that troubles many in the financial community. There are no easy solutions to data security, and it is only by being extremely thorough that firms can ensure that data is kept safe from fraud and theft.
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