Financial consulting is a demanding task. Due to the complexity and fuzziness of customers’financial problems on the one hand and the amount of possible products that may be consideredto configure solutions to these problems on the other hand, an adequate DSS is essential. Amodel is presented...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the financialservices market is experiencing a fundamental shift. Moretransparent and global markets through new means ofcommunication on the one hand and better informed andmore demanding customers on the other hand have led toa dramatically intensified...

In a world of enormous technological developments and increasing competition between financial servicesproviders customer acquisition and customer retention becomes more and more important. In this paper the authorsuse a micro-economic model to analyze the circumstances when and why customers...

For several years, the financial services industry has discovered the opportunities of differentchannels like the Internet, call-centers, WAP etc. Many banks built up separate direct banksfocusing exclusively on the Internet and/or call-centers. Only recently, some banks started toreintegrate...

Increasing importance of information andcommunication technologies (ICT), new regulatoryobligations (e.g. Basel II) and growing external risks(e.g. hacker attacks) put Security Risks in themanagement focus of banking companies. Themanagement has to decide whether to accept ExpectedLosses or to...

Due to the immateriality of financial services and products they lend themselves handsomely for sale on the WWW.This may be one of the main reasons why the financial services industry has gained a cutting edge in the net with respectto other industries. Thus, at the beginning of the third...

Generally and especially in EC, customers are confronted with a greatvariety and quantity of products and / or services. However, the time and effort acustomer can spend on searching for his preferred products and deciding aboutthe most preferred one based on his needs and preferences is the...

Especially in the Financial Services Sector we can see a strategic shift towards implementing CustomerRelationship Management (CRM) strategies. The basic assumption of this strategies is that customers who are lockedinto a stable relationship will be willing to pay premiums and by this generate...

Forced by market pressure financial services providers are searching forpromising concepts that can guide them towards success in the private customerssector. Individualization of financial solutions as well as of interaction seems to be areasonable possibility. Because of its tremendous growth...

Although, from a technical point of view, business frameworks appear to be apromising means to provide the industry with commercial, mission critical business managementsoftware in a cost effective manner and within a competitive time to market, up to now,only very few framework vendors like IBM...