Over $5 trillion will be spent on technology in the financial services sector in the next three years. While there are many books covering purely technical issues, this is one of the very few that look at the challenge of how to manage financial services technology in an area that under-pins almost every part of our global civilisation.

Autorentext
ROSS MCGILL has worked on both the buy and sell side of technology in both retail and wholesale financial
services over the last twenty years, most recently as CEO of a group of five software businesses. He is uniquely
placed to provide a view of technology management issues for financial services practitioners.

Inhalt
PART 1 The Role of Technology in Financial Services Chapter 1 Morphology Chapter 2 Environment Chapter 3 Technology Management Issues Chapter 4 Technology Strategy Best Practice Chapter 5 Front, Middle& Back Office explained Chapter 6 Communications, Standards& Messaging Chapter 7 Open Source in Financial Services PART 2 Technology Acquisition& Management Chapter 8 Build Chapter 9 Buy Chapter 10 Bureau Chapter 11 Outsource PART 3 Delivering Value From technology Chapter 12 Disruptive Innovation Threat or Opportunity Chapter 13 Documentation Chapter 14 Testing& Quality Control Chapter 15 Benchmarking Value PART 4 Regulation& Compliance Chapter 16 The Role of Regulation and Global Regulatory Impact Chapter 17 IT Governance in financial services Chapter 18 Conclusion Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1 Template Request For Proposal Appendix 2 Typical Business Continuity Policy Statement Appendix 3 List of Abbreviations Index