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Banking Relationships: Managing Through Disruption
Banks are re-organizing operations to better serve their customers. Anthony Klick, a Principal in PwC's Banking & Capital Markets practice, discusses seven strategies that can help banks reinvent their business model and manage the transformation of their industry.
The Federal Reserve’s proposal to implement enhanced prudential standards for large bank holding companies
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) issued a proposal to implement Sections 165 and 166 of the Dodd-Frank Act.The FRB viewed these provisions as imposing a “package of enhanced prudential standards” on bank holding companies with total consolidated assets of $50 billion or more and on nonbank financial companies that the Financial Stability Oversight Council has designated for supervision by the FRB. Learn more
Dialing Up a Storm
PwC's Mike Heindl discusses how mobile payments will create the most significant revenue opportunities of the decade for financial institutions.
Customer service and relationship pricing
PwC Financial Services Partner Dave Hoffman speaks with American Banker about customer service and relationship pricing differences across financial service institutions and how banks can become more customer-centric in their approach.
Regulatory realities
Dan Ryan, PricewaterhouseCoopers financial services advisory practice co-leader, tells CBNC that one of the biggest issue for banks right now is uncertainty over rule making. Watch the interview
Rebooting Your IT Strategy: Using IT to Accelerate Your Business
In our review of IT organizations across the financial services industry and in discussions with CIOs leading the transformation, we have found that firms are reaping significant benefits when their IT organizations (1) act as innovators and (2) are closely aligned with their business groups.
Disruptions in the financial markets, increased regulatory complexity and operational risk are major challenges for domestic and international banking institutions and capital markets-securities firms. These challenges, along with event-driven opportunities and new technologies have transformed the sector. In the current risk-adverse climate, institutions seek innovative solutions and ways to reduce their exposure.
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Our banking and capital markets practice is organized to fully leverage our global team of over 33,000 professionals in every segment of the financial industry – consumer/retail banking, commercial banking, wholesale banking, mortgage banking, securitization, capital markets, insurance, investment management, broker/dealer and real estate. Our professionals include not only auditors and tax specialists with deep industry experience, but dedicated teams that provide internal control assessments, financial systems design and implementation services and solutions across a broad range of industry-related matters, including regulatory compliance and risk management.