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Bank Technology News May 2007 John Adams	Job Scheduling: Is That Job Done Yet? The Software Knows. Union Bank of CA deploys an automated job scheduling solution.
Bank Technology News May 2007 R. Srikrishna	FIs Explore Co-Sourcing IT Management Banking and financial services have always struggled with their IT strategies, grappling over their unique technology challenges and roadblocks that tend to center on flexibility, control and scalability. RIM delivered through a co-sourcing model comes very close to addressing all these.
Bank Technology News May 2007 Klosek & Troxclair	Banks Need A Disclosure "Action Plan" Companies from a range of industries have been criticized for sharing customer information in response to governmental demands, in most cases without proving prior notice to the customers whose information is being shared. Here are some suggestions for dealing with this issue.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	PIMCO Walks on the Wild Side The bond firm plans to tackle riskier investments. But investors shouldn't start worrying yet.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2007	The Great Reckoning Whatever the specific business impact the Merrill Lynch ruling may have, many see the return to pre-1999 rules as a chance for the brokerage industry, which has long avoided fiduciary duty for business and regulatory reasons, to overcome those obstacles and embrace it.
U.S. Banker June 2007 John Engen	Mobile Banking's Second Act After an ill-fated spate of mobile-banking initiatives earlier this decade, some banks are again rushing to offer wireless services, convinced that the technology is ready for prime time even if carrier relations and technical standards remain unresolved.
U.S. Banker June 2007 Holly Sraeel	Accountability at Issue in Data Security Failings Enforcing stiffer criminal penalties is one way to hold merchants and data brokers more accountable. This is good news for banks.
U.S. Banker June 2007 Lee Conrad	M&A: Private Equity Takes Aim At Financial-IT Vendors Financial-IT companies are expected to lure a growing number of private-equity investors over the next few years.
U.S. Banker June 2007 Karen Krebsbach	Is Umpqua Cool? Maybe. Quirky? Yup. Successful? No Question About It. Ray Davis's "Leading for Growth: How Umpqua Bank Got Cool and Created a Culture of Greatness" tells how he remade the backwater institution into a $7 billion, 134-store unqualified success in an industry not known for outside-the-box thinking.
U.S. Banker June 2007 Karen Krebsbach	After Supremes Ruled for OCC, Fight May Move to Capitol Hill The Supreme Court negated potential legal challenges to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's preemption power over state laws, ruling that state-chartered operating subsidiaries of national banks are exempt from state consumer-protection laws like their national bank parents.
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