Publications

PA's financial services consulting expertise available in print – listed by service

PA's financial services management consultants publish a broad spectrum of survey reports and other publications that have been generated through our Insights and Thought Leadership initiatives.

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Strategies for growth

	Delivering maximum value from ultra high net worth clients
	Payments, profits and the impact of SEPA. How will the Single Euro Payments Area affect the profitability of European banks?
	Relationship counselling for banks and corporates (SEPA)
	Revitalizing branch banking - Driving evolution by challenging traditional branch banking paradigms
	Ways to profitability for banks in Germany
	What SEPA really means to your organisation

Product, channel and customer management

	Challenging channels: Delivering the optimal solution to increase sales and lower distribution costs
	Direct debit - friend or foe?
	EBPP - time to wise up: a central utility is essential for successful electronic bill presentment and payment services, but how will it come
	Indecent exposure? Developing a real-time single client view
	Keeping it simple - Building customer trust by reducing the complexity of financial services
	Revitalizing branch banking - Driving evolution by challenging traditional branch banking paradigms
	Tellers or sellers? Just how ‘retail’ should retail financial services outlets be?
	The three Cs of wealth management: Making the most out of investments in wealth management services

Operational efficiency and performance improvement

	Bricks and mortar, copper and fibre - Financial services organisations can avoid hidden pitfalls by incorporating IT infrastructure effectively into their relocation programmes
	Business continuity - A sleeping tiger in a bear market?
	Direct debit - friend or foe?
	Establishing an efficient self-service banking platform: Improved network efficiency can be achieved without sacrificing customer demands…though this requires a radical re-think of SSB management
	It’s legal Jim, but not as we know it ! Delivering cost effective legal services in investment banking
	MiFID - Playing to win: your move
	MiFID - Don't lose concentration when playing to win
	Payments, profits and the impact of SEPA. How will the Single Euro Payments Area affect the profitability of European banks?
	Power to the people! Optimizing performance across branch networks
	Relationship counselling for banks and corporates (SEPA)
	Revitalizing branch banking - Driving evolution by challenging traditional branch banking paradigms
	What SEPA really means to your organisation
	What the customer saw - How a fresh perspective on service delivery can deliver real customer satisfaction
	Where is the weakest link in mortgage processing? Outsourcing - just a matter of time

Project management and organization effectiveness

	Bricks and mortar, copper and fibre - Financial services organisations can avoid hidden pitfalls by incorporating IT infrastructure effectively into their relocation programmes
	Business continuity - A sleeping tiger in a bear market?
	Delivering regulatory compliance - How traditional programme management techniques can increase the effectiveness of regulatory change delivery
	Insurance institutions in Germany: more success by restructuring (in German)
	MiFID - Playing to win: your move
	MiFID - Don't lose concentration when playing to win
	Navigating complexity: Putting complexity thinking into practice
	Opportunity knocks with SOx - Making best use of the delayed Sarbanes-Oxley implementation deadline

Information systems and technology

	Agenda - PA's IT Newsletter
	Business continuity - A sleeping tiger in a bear market?
	Calypso data management made easy
	Calypso implementations for credit derivatives
	Core banking systems transformation - A fruitful endeavour or a rotten core?
	Getting out of the cost box – PA's international survey on attitudes towards IT in business 2003/04
	Intranet - an opportunity to transform the organization: Enabling radical change in financial services
	Understanding misunderstanding - Investing in successful outsourcing relationships: PA’s 2006 international IT outsourcing survey

Risk and capital management

	Bridging the gap – A pragmatic approach to developing the optimal operational risk solution for banks
	Building for security: gaining clear benefits from a robust operational risk management framework (series of five papers)
	Business continuity - A sleeping tiger in a bear market?
	Conflict resolution - Building the new, multi-role risk management function
	Cost effective risk management - Reducing the cost of risk management by up to 30%
	Cracking the Basel code
	Delivering regulatory compliance - How traditional programme management techniques can increase the effectiveness of regulatory change delivery
	Faster, smarter, cheaper - Making the case for implementing an enterprise-wide risk management solution
	From the jaws of defeat - Optimizing the compliance response for financial services businesses
	MIS-managing risk? Existing technology can enable radical improvements to banks' risk reporting
	Much ado about nothing? Operational risk survey findings 2003
	Opportunity knocks with SOx - Making best use of the delayed Sarbanes-Oxley implementation deadline
	Painting by numbers - A framework for next-generation operational risk modeling
	Risk-based management in the banking sector – PA global survey results 2004
	Risk based management in the banking sector; PA global survey 2001
	Risk management in financial services - A PA center of excellence
	Risky conduct - Is your risk analytics function performing 100%?
	The myth of enterprise-wide risk management: Capturing the value from EWRM
	The op-risk power grid: Which operational risk system is the best match with your bank's needs?
	The seven deadly sins of EWRM: Successfully delivering an enterprise-wide risk management framework
	The wheel of fortune: Successful management of operational risks in the life assurance sector
	Weighing the dragon: Operational risk management

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