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Monthly Archives: August 2007
5 insurance products that you must have
The insurance landscape is shifting. The days of relying on policies to cover small-ticket items like parking lot fender dings or water damage to attic relics are over. Gone too, for the most part, is the era when patients could … Continue reading
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Banking on Trust
Financial markets are generally good at responding to events, but lousy at reckoning with an uncertainty. The collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market sent ripples into credit markets all over the world, because so many financial institutions had traded … Continue reading
Investing in Mutual Funds
* Mutual funds are NOT guaranteed or insured by any bank or government agency. Even if you buy through a bank and the fund carries the bank’s name, there is no guarantee. You can lose money. (see Part IV “Kinds … Continue reading
The future of banking technology?
Service oriented architectures and web services can provide real benefits to the finance industry says Julian Dobbins, senior marketing development manager at Micro Focus. The reported increased profitability in the US and Europe suggests that retail banks are meeting the … Continue reading
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India to emerge as the third largest domestic banking market in the world by 2040
The banking sector will grow significantly faster than GDP in the ‘E7’ emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey, according to new projections in a PricewaterhouseCoopers’ report ‘Banking in 2050: How big will the emerging markets … Continue reading
Insurance claims: 5 things you must know
Life insurance claims make many people cringe – the paperwork, repeated visits to the insurers office, delays. But the onus is also on life cover buyers and claimants to make the claim process easy. The pain of losing a dear … Continue reading