Last week, M ONE hosted 10 CIOs in a two-day “CIO LINKS” conference in Las Vegas. We had the opportunity to listen to 10 people who are the point people for technology in banks with assets from $1 billion to $20 billion. Most have ops groups reporting to them as well as IT. Two are COOs. At least two are on track to being CEOs. They are where the rubber meets the road. [Read more]
I recently teed off on Internet banking vendors financial problems and pointed out the smoke and mirrors and blue sky projections offered to soften the landing of free falling bottom lines. With this in mind, here are some practical strategies to protect your bank when trolling for the right online banking vendor. [Read more]
With rumors flying around about American Express being pursued by acquirers like Citigroup, here's my proposed "hat trick" that puts the AMEX stock on steroids and creates the buyer of choice for well-performing, but slow-growing regional banks around the country. [Read more]