Brokerage And Related Commercial Bank Services

Creating Value in Financial Services is a compilation of state-of-the-art views of leading academics and practitioners on how financial service firms can succeed in today's competitive environment. The book is based on two conferences held at New York University: the first, `Creating Value in Financial Services', held in March 1997, and the second, `Operations and Productivity in Financial Services', in April 1998. The book is essentially designed to be a compendium of leading edge thinking and practice in the management of financial services firms. There is no book today that has this focus. It contains ideas that can apply to other service industries. Topics addressed are increasingly important worldwide as the financial services industries consolidate and search for innovative new directions and ways to create value in a fiercely competitive environment.

"Until recently, bankers could do little to stop the flow of customer deposits into non-bank investment products. Not only were they facing disintermediation of dollars but, perhaps more importantly, disintermediation of customers as well." "Now banks can fight back - by offering their customers the full range of financial products that they have been looking for. Bankers as Brokers is the banker's definitive guide to starting, running and succeeding with an investment products line." "This comprehensive overview takes bankers through the critical elements of the investment products business, helping financial institutions develop a program that fits their needs and their customers." "Bankers as Brokers offers strategies on increasing income, customer retention and new business with a wholly integrated program. It also identifies and addresses the potential problems in the area, including deposit cannibalization and regulatory concerns." "Bankers as Brokers tackles the following issues and more: building a better bank through brokerage; reviewing, adopting, promoting and selling investment products; leveraging customer trust with financial planning services; specific needs and concerns of community banks; creating a full-service financial center by offering investment products; dramatic changes in customer needs and how to meet them; high-tech marketing methods that target new customers; integrating investment products with the "rest" of the bank; and the growing regulatory and compliance concerns for banks." "Both an assessment of today's market and a road map for the future, Bankers as Brokers can help bankers chart the course to record-setting profitability."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The latest in a series of studies in banking and international finance. This book deals with all aspects of the Glass-Steagall Act, and the relationship between the commercial banks and the investment banks.

Global Positioning for Financial Services is a broad-based examination of the changes occurring in financial services. The forces of privatization and securitization are but two of the factors that are changing the way financial services are delivered. Technology has enabled direct sale of securities to ultimate investors in ways that have not been possible until now. Regulators must adjust their perceptions of risk and reward to maintain safe systems. Astute industry participants must have a clear understanding of these dynamics in order to develop effective strategies for the future. Contents:Transformation in Financial ServicesInternational VariationsDriving Forces of ChangeRegulatory InfluencesBest PracticesForging Financial Services Alliances Readership: Undergraduates and professionals in finance. Keywords: