Research Documents By Marc DeCastro

Business Strategy: IDC Financial Insights' U.S. Consumer Channel Preference Survey Results — Mobile Banking Becomes Mainstream
Marc DeCastro
April, 2013 - Doc # FIN240640      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights' report predicts that mobile banking will surpass the online banking channel in usage by the end of 2014. As tablets continue to erode the PC and laptop market, it also wil...

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Business Strategy: 2013 U.S. Banking Industry Update — Some Positive Trends
Marc DeCastro
February, 2013 - Doc # FIN239226      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report dives into the overall health and trends of the U.S. banking industry. U.S. bankers have been dealing with a combination of bank failures, poor earnings, increased r...

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Thoughts on Fiserv's Acquisition of Open Solutions
Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey
January, 2013 - Doc # lcUS23908413      IDC Link
On January 14, 2013, Fiserv announced that they closed a deal to acquire Open Solutions. While it had been known since the spring of last year that Open Solutions was available for purchase, what was ...

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Business Strategy: IDC Financial Insights' Consumer Channel Preference Survey Results — Online Banking Usage Peaks: What Next?
Marc DeCastro
January, 2013 - Doc # FIN238957      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights' report discusses the fact that — as indicated by the results of IDC Financial Insights' 2012 U.S. Consumer Channel Preference Survey — online banking remains an imp...

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Worldwide Financial Services 2013 Top 10 Predictions: Leveraging Technology Disruptors Is Path for Success
David Potterton, Marc DeCastro, Michael Araneta, Jeanne Capachin, Li-May Chew, Roberto Gutierrez, Rachel Hunt, Alex Kwiatkowski, Karen Massey, Aaron McPherson, Bijen Ramdas, Matt Sauer, Ho Sui-Jon, Michael Versace, Michael Yeo
December, 2012 - Doc # FIN237980      Top 10 Predictions
This IDC Financial Insights report presents our top 10 predictions for global financial services. As we entered 2012, the theme seemed to be focused on surviving rather than thriving. Despite the reco...

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BBVA Compass Replaces Its Core with Accenture and Alnova
Jeanne Capachin, Karen Massey, Marc DeCastro
November, 2012 - Doc # lcUS23817812      IDC Link
BBVA Compass has gone where other large U.S. banks have feared to tread, moving to a real-time core processing system. With "Project Centric," the $66B institution has just completed a successful tran...

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Storm Threat 2012: Best Practices in BCM Should Be Ongoing
Marc DeCastro
October, 2012 - Doc # lcUS23756012      IDC Link
It is never a good sign when the media provides a catchy name to a storm that has yet to impact the United States, but here we are a few days before Halloween and the term "Frankenstorm" is being used...

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Best Practices: Cloud Vendors and Banking — Making Contracts Work
Jeanne Capachin, Marc DeCastro, Michael Versace
October, 2012 - Doc # FIN237441      Best Practices
This IDC Financial Insights report provides insight into best practices in managing public cloud providers — including software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service. Al...

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Business Strategy: 2012 U.S. Consumer Channel Preference Survey Results — Long Live the Branch
Marc DeCastro
October, 2012 - Doc # FIN237010      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report discusses the findings of our latest Consumer Channel Preferences Survey, a nationally representative survey of U.S. consumers focused on their banking...

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Business Strategy: FinovateFall 2012 Assessment — SMB and Mobile Payment Solutions Take Center Stage; Still Looking for More Innovation
Marc DeCastro
October, 2012 - Doc # FIN237102      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report discusses FinovateFall 2012, with a focus on the 45 companies whose solutions are more specific to consumer banking. FinovateFall provides an excellent opportunity t...

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