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Fifth Annual Cass-Capco Risk Management Conference
April 19, 2012: Cass Business School, London, UK

The fifth annual conference of the Cass-Capco Institute on Risk brought together practitioners and academics to discuss how risk can be managed to lessen its impact on business and economic growth... Read More

Banking in the “Glocal” World
March 1, 2012: Zurich, Switzerland

Swiss Finance Institute and Capco Institute were pleased to present the Inaugural Annual conference of the SFI-Capco Institute Paper Series on Banking in Zurich, Switzerland. The conference brought together leading financial experts and scholars to discuss... Read More

Thought leadership, thought through

The global financial industry becomes more complex by the day. Meeting the challenges of complexity demands the best, most innovative and actionable input. Capco’s Thought Leadership and leading-edge research is contained in our Journal of Financial Transformation and our wide range of White Papers and Points of View. Access a unique resource of academic and practitioner thinking and experience. It’s tomorrow’s best practice available today. Read More

The New ‘Trust Fund’?

Yet another perfect storm? Cross-border banking in a ‘new world’

The recent Swiss Finance Institute and Capco joint inaugural conference – on the challenges of cross-border banking in a ‘new world’ – was followed by our survey on the key themes of the event. To discover more about banks’ current attitudes to the challenges, and the opportunities, of profitable and compliant cross-border banking in a social media age, download an overview of the survey results. ...read more

The Über Architect

Enabling organizations to deliver more successful solutions

This Capco white paper offers a brief, practical definition of the solution architect role in terms of the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®). ...read more

IT Complexity Metrics – How Do You Measure Up?

Part 2: Commerzbank / Capco IT Complexity model in detail

This is the second Capco Thoughts white paper in the IT Complexity series. The series describes a groundbreaking initiative underway by Germany-based Commerzbank and Capco to develop a model for measuring IT complexity in the financial services industry. We have already explained the importance and the power of rigorous IT Complexity metrics in our first paper. Now we describe how it works in detail. ...read more

Capco’s ‘No sleep’ Survey - Results Overview

The “4 AM agenda” confirms: no need to buy an alarm clock just yet

In 2012, insomnia will continue to rule. Unsurprisingly, participants see a tough year ahead. But there is real focus on the quality of customer experience and an interest in the mobile technologies that will build customer intimacy. ...read more