An American Banker Brand
10 Tech Firms
To Watch in ’ 12
Leaving Rules
To the Robots
We scoped out start-ups and
established financial industry technology vendors to find the ones
doing the most innovative work.
Choosing wasn’t easy. Inside, 10
that show promise for next year.
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Unfortunately, it’s not that easy.
But a new breed of software is
helping banks automatically identify security and compliance risks
and take automated steps to prevent them.
Core Vendors
Need to
Innovate
BANK TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Technology Innovation. Business Results. banktechnews.com
December 2011 • Volume 24, Issue 12
A Head In The Cloud
Tony Kerrison, CTO of Dutch
bank ING, is building a
hybrid cloud that he’d like
other banks to join. The
goal: flexible, low-cost IT.
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CASE STUDY
Signing with a Click
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National Bank of Kansas City has invested in e-signature technology that
lets it email mortgage documents to borrowers that they sign by clicking
on a PDF. It has gained not only time and efficiency, but the chance to
avoid fees.
