How Clients Use Our Solution: Initiative Management Case Study

The Situation

The IT infrastructure function of a major investment bank, with staff in over 45 centres globally, needed to improve their current infrastructure and enable the business to achieve their objectives. This function undertakes over 100 major initiatives each year with significant capital investment and people involved and therefore consistent, clear delivery was vital.

The Challenge

With on-going pressure to tightly manage costs, reduce headcount and meet regulatory pressure, the IT infrastructure function were faced with the challenge(s) of:

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Risk technology spending to hit $23 billion by 2013

London – 7 November 2011: Compliance and integration to drive risk technology expenditure according to the sixth edition of Chartis Research’s RiskTech100® report.

"There is a quiet revolution taking place in the financial services industry, where the disciplines of risk and finance are converging," comments Peyman Mestchian, Managing Partner of Chartis Research. He says that it is characterized by better alignment of the CFO and CRO and is leading to a re-think of organizational structures, business processes and underlying technology architectures.

While Mestchian says that regulation continues to play a major role in driving demand for risk technology, he also points to a trend towards "value-based compliance" moving away from the traditional "tick box" mentality. 

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