In 2003, the Gartner Group concluded, “The CIO, as we know it, is a dying breed. We are seeing the role reinvented.” It is clear that this reinvention is well under way in banking. [Read more]
Hancock Bank in Gulfport, MS, took a direct hit from Katrina, and the bank's beachfront corporate facilities were particularly devastated. John Hairston, EVP and COO of the $6B bank, relates the tantamount role the bank's team played in its recovery. [Read more]
Protecting the public from terrorism and other hazards should be a top priority, and I’m sure the intent of tighter compliance was not to put banks out of business by overloading them with hundreds of emails and thousands of pages of manuals to review. The concern I hear in banks is that the extra compliance is not producing any meaningful results. [Read more]