Featuring: Ralph Silva, Research Director, European Banking & Payments

The Sibos 2009 annual conference was held in Hong Kong earlier this month to discuss the issues affecting the wholesale and transaction banking community and this year TowerGroup played a major role. With close to 7,000 attendees, the event was not likely going to result in consensus, but in this period of turmoil there was much common ground to build on. TowerGroup was invited to moderate several key debates as well as produce the closing summary, which necessitated our participation in all the key debates at the event. TowerGroup has produced a series of five podcasts covering the principle debates of the event.

In this podcast we focus on a core component of all Sibos conferences: innovation. This year Sibos was not about specific solutions, but about the process of innovation.

Featuring: Karen Pauli, Research Director, TowerGroup

Moderator: Ralph Silva, Research Director, European Banking & Payments

Islamic banking products have never been far from the minds of banking strategists. With the opportunity to tap into a growing US domestic market as well as building access to billions of potential customers, Islamic financial services products stand to become a major revenue stream. In this podcast, we focus on the insurance market, specifically Takaful insurance products that subscribe to Islamic principles. TowerGroup analyst, Karen Pauli, has just published a report entitled “Takaful: Global Opportunities in Islamic Insurance for Carriers” and she joins us to take us through her findings.

Featuring: Andy Schmidt, Research Director, Global Payments

Moderator: Ralph Silva, Research Director, European Banking & Payments

The Sibos 2009 annual conference was held in Hong Kong earlier this month to discuss the issues affecting the wholesale and transaction banking community and this year TowerGroup played a major role. With close to 7,000 attendees, the event was not likely going to result in consensus, but in this period of turmoil there was much common ground to build on. TowerGroup was invited to moderate several key debates as well as produce the closing summary, which necessitated our participation in all the key debates at the event. TowerGroup has produced a series of five podcasts covering the principle debates of the event.

In this third podcast, we talk to Andy Schmidt about his key findings throughout the conference. Andy Schmidt is a Research Director in TowerGroup’s Global Payments service and attended most of the big issue debates as well as a series of vendor meetings throughout the conference. Andy discusses his impression gained at Sibos of the overall market, prospects for vendors, and the future of innovation for the industry.

Featuring: Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA, Senior Research Director, Securities & Investments

Moderator: Ralph Silva, Research Director, European Banking & Payments

The Sibos 2009 annual conference was held in Hong Kong earlier this month to discuss the issues affecting the wholesale and transaction banking community and this year TowerGroup played a major role. With close to 7,000 attendees, the event was not likely going to result in consensus, but in this period of turmoil there was much common ground to build on. TowerGroup was invited to moderate several key debates as well as produce the closing summary, which necessitated our participation in all the key debates at the event. TowerGroup has produced a series of five podcasts covering the principle debates of the event.

This podcast focuses on prime brokerage and the changes that resulted in the demise of Lehman Brothers. Dushyant Shahrawat, Senior Research Director in TowerGroup’s Securities & Investments practice, moderated a panel that included John Callegari of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Juan Carlos Nieto of Index Intelligence, Kim Ivey of Vertex Capital Management, and Dinkar Jetley of Deutsche Bank. Dushyant talks about the changes traditional customers of prime brokers are experiencing and discusses opportunities for the vendor community.