June, 2012

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Data Driven Strategy

Jeff For Banks

'You recently read an excellent book on strategy. Your financial institution faces challenges. economy is crawling at road-kill pace, customers struggling to remain current on loans, regulators breathing hot and heavy down your neck. You need to assemble the team, assess your situation, chart your course. So you schedule a strategic planning retreat.

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How stable are your deposits?

Jeff For Banks

'I am attending the Financial Managers'' Society ( FMS ) Forum in Las Vegas this week. The Forum is chock full of education opportunities for banking finance professionals. One session caught my attention. The tandem speakers taught the audience about going "long", or at least longer, in their investment portfolio and minimizing risk. One of the underlying assumptions in advising to "go long" was that core deposits were as stable today as they were four years ago.

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Grow or Die. Really?

Jeff For Banks

'Grow or die. Acquire or be acquired. Build it or kill it. And so go the banking platitudes. Now, perhaps those that invoke these phrases have strategies that compel them to grow. Shareholder value, so the logic goes, is created if I grow my balance sheet 10% per year and my earnings, because I''m realizing economies of scale, grow faster. But what if you adopt the strategy of the tortoise?

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Thinking About How To Lessen Your Burden During Month-End Close? Skystem Can Help!

Most people dread the nearing of the month-end close and reconciliation process, and who can blame them? It's typically a tedious, long, stressful process; but it doesn't have to be. Implementing automation into your month-end process can significantly reduce this headache by automating up to 40% of your reconciliation and saving nearly 30% of your time spent.