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NEW CHANNELS: USAA's Quietly Leading the Mobile Race; Consumer RDC for iPhone is the latest in the virtual bank's arsenal of offerings.(Leading Off)
July 1, 2009... Byline: Rebecca Sausner USAA is the first U.S. bank to announce a retail remote deposit capture app for the iPhone, yet another coup in the single-branch bank's stealth dominance of mobile banking adoption. The iPhone-based RDC tool comes three years after USAA began offering...

DUE DILIGENCE: Governments May Mandate Green Energy; With green mandates from governments a real possibility, more companies are establishing formalized policies to judge themselves and vet outsourcers.(Going Green)
July 1, 2009... Byline: Michael Sisk Green initiatives might be a wise way to improve energy efficiency and lower costs; they might also be good PR. In either case, however, having a green policy has been optional. Now many business leaders are wondering if that will change as governments, which have...

Paper Push Swaying Consumers.(Green Initiatives)
July 1, 2009... Consumers are more concerned about cleaning up their desks than cleaning up the environment, with 63 percent of consumers surveyed telling Javelin Strategy & Research that they'd turn off paper statements to reduce clutter, but only 44 percent say they'd do so to improve their impact on the...

CORE SYSTEMS: Platform Market Declines, But North America Gets Hot; Will U.S. banks finally let go of their fears of global vendors?(By the Numbers)
July 1, 2009... Byline: Rebecca Sausner Last year was a recessionary market for global banking platform sales, but spirited international competition among vendors means U.S. banks will have more options if and when they begin to consider new projects. While most of the action has been in...

The Other Systemic Threat to Banking; Bank exec Louis Rosenthal says inadequately managed outsourcing agreements can post a major security and financial threat to institutions.(Interview)
July 1, 2009... Byline: John Adams Credit default swaps, core processing systems and ATM networks would all appear to be different animals in the financial zoo, but Louis Rosenthal says there's some dangerous common ground. A consultant who's also held senior positions at Bank of America, LaSalle...