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Articles from September 2005

Commentary: Improving the Experience That Customers Often Aim to Minimize

At BAIs Retail Delivery Conference last year, Microsoft launched its new campaign, experience Banking.

Banking: ING Says Time Spent Investigating Fraud is Better Allocated With Use of ERASE

Dutch financial conglomerate ING has implemented an automated solution for anti-money laundering and fraud detection that is monitoring approximately 10 million customers in three of its retail banks in the Netherlands.

Insurance: Massachusetts FAIR Plan Expects Paperless Claims and Underwriting to Save Seven Figures in Five Years

The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA), also known as the Massachusetts FAIR Plan (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) is using the ImageRight document management system to take its underwriting and claims operations paperless, and expects to see a large financial payback over the next five years.

Securities: Bear Stearns and Charles River’s Integration Gives FX on FIX a Boost

Bear Stearns Forex, the foreign exchange trading subsidiary of Bear Stearns, and Charles River Development announced a new partnership through which Bear Stearns became the first FX counterparty to offer investment managers live executable FX markets directly through an order management system via the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol.

Windows in Financial Services Announces its First Awards for Innovation

In the Fall issue of the magazine, due out shortly, Windows in Financial Services announces its first experience Financial Services Innovator Awards. The five vendors and four financial firms who will receive the awards represent various areas of the financial industry from banking to securities to insurance; and have all demonstrated innovative approaches to using Microsoft Technology to transform the way business is conducted.