Beware! Barclay's may end up with Lehman contracts that it did not intend to purchase as a result of an Excel to PDF formatting error: [via SOX First]In a fascinating case, reported by The Register, Barclays intended buying the good bits of what was left of...
Due to a last minute change of plans I am not in NYC for Finovate2008 (and very disappointed) but you can follow along with Jim Bruene who is live blogging at NetBanker. I will add links to additional live and post-meeting coverage over the next couple days, so...
On Friday, NACHA announced a six month extension of the deadline for International ACH Transactions (IAT) from March 2009 to September 2009. Many smaller banks were caught by surprise by the changes necessary to support IAT. Although software vendors are prepared to...
Attention Excel users! A couple related articles from CFO.com on spreadsheet worst practices and how to fix them. The first article generated so many emails that they published a follow up with even more tips. Spreadsheet "Worst Practices" Here's how...
Over at BankerVision, James Gardner, heads toward blasphemous territory when he suggests that in some cases, paper based manual processing may make more sense and cost less than grappling with IT complexity.IT systems are now so expensive we are at an inflection...
How do you handled "stranded" payments? Those received at the corporate headquarters rather than mailed to a lockbox, handed over in person to sales representatives or over the counter, and other errant checks? Over at the TAWPI blog Mark Brousseau talks to...
On Friday IBM announced its new Finance Transformation Workbench tool to help CFOs identify underperforming finance functions within their company and identify new opportunities to transform and improve the finance function. According to the 2008 IBM Global CFO Study,...
Back in April I attended Finovate Startup here in San Francisco and live blogged the event. It was a whirlwind of 40 startup/young financial technology companies presenting 5 min demos (no scripted PowerPoint!) of their products/new features. Lots of energy, great...
A recent guest post by Mike Kavis at the IT Project Failures blog underscores that the reason IT projects fail has little to do with IT and everything to do with change management and leadership. Most large business transformation projects fail because IT leaders...
via IT Project Failures... Analogies for ERP Implementation:1. The implementation will be like open heart surgery while the patient is still alive and working. 2. An ERP implementation is like the corporate equivalent of a brain transplant.5 more here
