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David Potterton

Vice President of Global Research


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  David Potterton is Vice President of Research for the Global Banking, Insurance, Capital Markets and Risk Management practices. These advisory services cover retail banking, cash and treasury management, payment services, insurance, core corporate banking technologies, as well as capital markets and risk.

Mr. Potterton contributes to the FinTech blogs in the IDC Financial Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/financial). His Twitter handle is dpotterton.

Industry Expertise

His 25-year career in financial services as a practitioner, market researcher, and consultant has involved extensive interaction within investment banking, corporate cash and treasury management, and retail banking operations. With his experience in both domestic and wholesale banking, product development, business development, and product management, Mr. Potterton understands not only the research business, but the specific challenges and opportunities that financial services firms face. His career at several high profile banks gives him a practical and highly relevant perspective on the issues.

Background

In his most recent role, Mr. Potterton was Vice President and Group Manager/Consultant for the End to End Process Review Team, an internal consulting group within JPMorganChase. In this role, Mr. Potterton led multiple engagement teams in End to End process reviews across JPMC business units globally focusing on opportunities for process improvement and risk identification.

Prior to this position, Mr. Potterton was Senior Business Strategy Manager within the Client Access group of JPMorgan Treasury Services where his role was to provide strategic direction and business thought leadership for the development and deployment of wholesale financial services. In addition, throughout his career, Mr. Potterton has served in senior product management roles all focused on driving growth. At JPMorganChase and BankBoston, he was charged with developing ways to retain customers, increase their share of wallet, and drive new account activity.

Prior to JPMorgan Chase and BankBoston, Mr. Potterton was at Wachovia as vice president and group product manager. In this role, he was heavily focused on information reporting and money transfer products strengthening the product set and driving change as new products were brought to market. Along with his financial institution experience, Mr. Potterton also was a research director within the wholesale and eFinancial group at Meridien Research with specific focus on eBanking which allowed him to leverage his real world experience in this area. In addition, Mr. Potterton was a financial analyst at Manufacturer's Hanover Trust and then a commercial business development officer at Provident Bank.

Education and Industry Affiliations

Mr. Potterton holds his M.B.A., Finance and Marketing from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina and his B.A., Business Management and Economics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He also is a Certified Cash Manager. Mr. Potterton is a sought after speaker at industry events such as the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) forums and other events within the financial services industry.

Research Authored by David Potterton


Business Strategy: Solvency II — Financial Services and Financial Technology Implications
Dana Wiklund, David Potterton
May, 2010 - Doc # FIN223505      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report examines the components of Solvency II, assesses the impacts that Solvency II will have on the insurance industry overall, and makes a connection between Solvency II...

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Worldwide Insurance IT Spending Guide: 2008–2013
David Potterton, Robert Burbach, Li-May Chew, Peter Farley, Jeanne Capachin
March, 2010 - Doc # FIN222251      Pivot Table
This IDC Financial Insights Pivot Table provides an updated forecast for worldwide insurance industry IT spending from 2009 to 2013.

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Business Strategy: A Review of Insurance IT Executive 2009 Survey Results
David Potterton, Robert Burbach
February, 2010 - Doc # FIN222001      Market Overview
This IDC Financial Insights report discusses the results from IDC's 2009 Annual Verticals Survey. As IT spend among North American insurers continues to feel the pressure of the current economi...

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Risk Decisions: We’re Only Human
David Potterton
January, 2010 - Doc # lcUS22176210      IDC Link
On Friday, January 15, 2010, I attended IBM's “Analytics Transform Decision Making: Smarter Banking with a Competitive Edge” session in New York. The presentations were focused on analytics, smarter d...

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Worldwide Financial Services 2010 Top 10 Predictions: Where to Next?
Aaron McPherson, Marc DeCastro, Dana Wiklund, David Potterton, Jeanne Capachin, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Michael Araneta, Rachel Hunt, Trevor LaFleche, Roberto Gutierrez, Mauro Peres, Robert Burbach, Peter Farley, Matthew Clay, Li-May Chew, Shawn Yip
January, 2010 - Doc # FIN221471      Top 10 Predictions
This IDC Financial Insights report presents our top 10 predictions for global financial services. As we started 2009, there seemed to be no end in sight to the issues facing financial services. As we ...

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Business Strategy: Digital Services Are Key for Insurers and Agents
David Potterton, Rachel Hunt, Robert Burbach
December, 2009 - Doc # FIN221318      Market Overview
This IDC Financial Insights report goes through the current level of satisfaction across delivery channels for both insurers and their agents/brokers. The adoption of digital services continues to gro...

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Innovation in Financial Services: How Much Will It Hurt?
David Potterton
December, 2009 - Doc # lcUS22140009      IDC Link
Innovation: How much will it hurt?As mentioned in previous pieces, innovation is one of our four key themes in 2010. At first blush, innovation might seem counterintuitive with all the focus on contro...

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Event Recap: 2009 BAI Retail Delivery — Boston
Marc DeCastro, Jeanne Capachin, Karen Massey, Dana Wiklund, David Potterton
November, 2009 - Doc # lcUS22077409      IDC Link
The most anticipated large conference for most retail bankers is and has been for quite some time BAI's Retail Delivery. Last year the conference was in Orlando, where the weather was chilly and in th...

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In-Housing: Are Insurers Predisposed to Internal Applications?
Li-May Chew, David Potterton, Simona Macellari, Robert Burbach
October, 2009 - Doc # FIN220586      Perspective
Given Asian insurers' predisposition to internally design and develop their core insurance application solutions, this Financial Insights Perspective explores if carriers across the world are indeed i...

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Best Practices: A Citi Case Study on Utilizing Identity Frameworks and Standards
David Potterton, Sally Hudson, Aaron McPherson
April, 2009 - Doc # FIN217986      Market Overview
This Financial Insights report presents a case study interview of Frank Villavicencio, director of product management for Citi's Managed Identity Services within Citi's Global Transaction Services bus...

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