At the beginning of this week, I had a chance to visit the SAP Financial Services Summit in Den Haag that was dedicated to SAP’s partners in banking and insurance. I got a good insight into SAP’s recent accomplishments in the banking and insurance industry, which I’d like to share with you here. Recent achievements in FSI During 2012, SAP [...]

Want to use an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in small towns and villages of India? They should soon be much easier to find, thanks to new guidelines from RBI (India’s central bank) to allow non-bank entities to own and operate ‘White Label ATM’ (WLA) networks in rural and semi-urban areas. Under the new guidelines, prospective applicants having a minimum net [...]

Through by and large the Russian IT market is perceived to be an emerging market, but in certain industries, notably banking and telecom, the demand seems to have become sophisticated enough and the market seems to be attaining a certain level of maturity in 2011. Moreover, the IT implementations in the main retail players have reached some saturation, at least [...]

There have been a number of announcements in the UK mobile payments market in recent weeks, driven in part by the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Recent developments include Vodafone and Visa’s partnership to launch Visa payWave, Barclays’ launch of its mobile app (Pingit), and plans by Swedish start-up iZettle (Europe’s version of US-based Square) to move into the [...]

Banking is a key sector of the French economy and one of the principal spenders in Information Technology. Retail banking, in particular, is intensifying its efforts in this domain as the sector had been in a dire need of modernization. Besides, the banking landscape is undergoing a dramatic evolution, due to legislative pressure as well as the arrival of new technology.

No business in the U.S. market can currently escape the marketing buzz about cloud computing coming from the IT community. The question is are enterprises merely dipping toes or diving, arms wide open, into the burgeoning cloud universe?

Biswajit Banerjee’s main responsibilities include market analysis and strategic consulting for the software and IT services industry in APAC with main focus on India. As a senior analyst he is responsible for hardware maintenance, system infrastructure software and project services product segments. His main focus verticals in this region include Manufacturing, Transport, Telecom, Banking and Insurance industry.

Duncan Brown Director – PAC UK d.brown@pac-online.com Duncan Brown joined PAC in January 2013 and has been working in the IT industry for over 20 year. Role and Responsibilities: Duncan Brown is a Director at PAC UK and advises software vendors and services firms on go-to-market strategy and demand generation. He is a world authority on Influencer analysis and engagement, [...]

Eike Bieber is part of the financial services team and also produces the market report for Switzerland including company profiles. In addition, she coordinates PAC’s relations to IT users, especially within the framework of the ICT Research Board by PAC and Berlecon.

Nicolas Beyer is a contributor to analyses and reports in Information Management such as the BI/Data Management Horizontal study. He specializes in the Banking and Insurance industries as well as in the Public Sector.