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Articles from October 2005

Banking: GreenStone Farm Credit Taps Microsoft and Cisco SMB Solutions to Cope with Growth

GreenStone Farm Credit Services needed a way to cope with its rapid growth. The merger of four Farm Credit Associations into one in January 2000, and the merger with an association in the Upper Peninsula and Northeast Wisconsin in January 2003, left the company with 17,000 customers and a need to view customer accounts in a much more automated way.

Securities: Credit Suisse First Boston Merges Proprietary Market Knowledge with Relegence Techology in Exclusive New Data Product

Credit Suisse First Boston and Relegence have jointly created a new data product, called Relegence Connect, available exclusively to CSFB’s high-end buy-side clients. CSFB’s global head of equity research first conceived the idea for the product, which allows users to link breaking news to proprietary CSFB knowledge about market relationships in real-time.

Insurance: Liberty Mutual is First to Offer “Package” Pricing Via SETWrite

Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, one of the four strategic business units of Liberty Mutual Group, is offering agents real-time access to auto, home and package rates through Rackley Solutions’ SETWrite, becoming the first carrier to offer package rates through the system.

Commentary: Marital Bliss and Retail Banking

Back when I was a happily married guy, my wife – Kate Conover of RE/MAX in Saddle River, NJ (an excellent, thoroughly honest, and very successful agent for any of you relocating to the greater New York metropolitan area) – decided she needed a home equity line of credit. At the time, as I recall, house prices were soaring, but no one this side of Alan Greenspan was sure how long irrational exuberance would last. Agents in her office were taking heed of that old advice that banks only offer you credit when you don’t need it, so they were all heading out to sign up for credit while times were good.