Today, financial services companies must build relationships with customers who may have never used traditional services before. Incumbents have the opportunity to reach out to a younger generation of consumers by merging with or acquiring dynamic fintech firms. The Online Bank To make these moves work, IT platforms must be robust enough to accommodate these…
Introduction Integration or consolidation is the key to success in a merger or acquisition (M&A) program. This is the process of physically bringing businesses together and IT represents an estimated 60% of synergies by value, the rest coming from areas like office space or workforce. While a great deal of work can be done to…
Introduction IT will be rightly focused on integration following any M&A program, but there are other considerations, notably regulation and what regulators demand of financial services companies. This falls into business resilience, including skills and security, and the management of fintechs – the likely takeover targets. Valuations One of the more surprising effects of the…
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has shown the benefits of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in detail, as large incumbents eye competitors, nimble entrants, and fintech companies as potential targets. Business synergies will presumably be clear, but the IT synergies that underly them need to be assessed in detail. Due diligence is the key to…
Panduit is excited to announce that we will be hosting our first online summit on November 4th from 10am-12pm CST. We realize that things have changed NOW and we need to adapt our technologies and business processes to be ready for what is NEXT. Here is what you can expect:• Panduit experts will provide a…
Panduit has developed an online Link Loss Calculator for businesses to easily calculate their Insertion Loss Link Loss budget.
In the information age, data centers and their task of continuous, safe storage of data make them critical facilities. If the data center isn’t reliable, productivity decreases immensely. Data centers house the organization’s most vital and proprietary assets. Hence, they are crucial to the continuity of daily business operations and the power required to operate…
Takeovers, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) test companies to their limits. These stresses affect all companies but for financial services organizations they can be compounded. Not only do two businesses have to come together, but so do the systems offering their products and services. Part of the problem is that incumbent financial services companies tend to…
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has thrown business valuations into chaos and shown financial services organizations that the shift to digital products and services is not a nice-to-have, but a necessity. M&As were already anticipated in a crowded market, but the changing behavior of customers has made them a necessity. They make sense from…
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