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IBM Rational solutions for Banking and Financial Markets

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Banks and financial market organizations today operate in highly globalized and interconnected world and are faced with the ripple effects of economic, political and financial events taking place in a completely different part of the world.

To sustain their revenue stream in unpredictable times, banks need to constantly innovate and create new income avenues, while at the same time, manage their risks and costs. To achieve this, banks rely on quality IT solutions to stay competitive and agile amidst great uncertainty.

IBM Rational helps banks to:

  • Create innovative products

  • Accelerate delivery of financial applications and services

  • Reduce costs by increasing efficiency

  • Ensure compliance with an increasing number of regulations in the industry

Optimize, consolidate and transform core systems

.A recent IBM global survey shows that nearly 90% of financial organizations believe that transforming from the status quo is critical to profitability. Additionally, it was discovered that as much as 66% of IT budgets are spent on application maintenance. IBM Rational solutions for core system transformation help our Financial Services customers develop the agility required to plan and execute portfolio and business strategies to reduce operational complexity and operating costs.

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Increase your business agility through integrated software development and delivery

.At a time when there is an increased focus on reducing costs, increasing business agility, improving customer satisfaction and complying with regulations, streamlining software development and delivery is often a key initiative. The IBM Rational solutions for software development and delivery enable customers to increase their business agility through integrated and collaborative tooling and best practices that support the entire software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment.

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Balance regulatory compliance and business innovation opportunities

.New regulations, such as Dodd-Frank, Basel III and Solvency II have a significant and broad impact on financial institutions. Companies are finding that legal and regulatory compliance costs are soaring while the effectiveness of traditional methods of compliance management are declining, giving rise to huge fines, penalties, awards and settlements. IBM Rational solutions for compliance help you to understand the impact, streamline the planning and accelerate the execution of compliance and business initiatives.

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Reduce the costs and time to develop innovative mobile solutions

Reduce the costs and timeOver the last few years, the mobile and wireless market has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world. Mobile application development is expected to exceed other platforms by 2015 and today, there are now more than 6.8 million developers worldwide developing wireless applications. Financial Services organizations are finding that these new technologies represent increased opportunities and business models for their customers. It is enabling them to extend their customer reach and enhance their business differentiation.

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Where Rational products help you

Rational Asset Analyzer: Assists IT personnel with the maintenance, extension, and reuse of existing mainframe and web applications in modernization efforts such as SOA

Rational Asset Manager: Enables organizations to catalogue, organize, use, reuse, manage and report on any type of asset

Rational Build Forge: Automates and accelerates software assembly processes through ann adaptive execution framework

Rational Developer for System z: Helps make multiplatform application development faster, more efficient, and less costly, and accelerates the development of your Mainframe applications

Rational Focal Point: Provides market and business-driven product and portfolio management, empowering the right decisions to deliver business, customer, and market value

Rational Insight: Enables you to measure, monitor, analyze and trend project and process performance to make the best decisions for your business and for continual process improvements

Rational Quality Manager: Provides a collaborative, integrated hub for test planning, creation, and execution as well as workflow control, tracking, traceability, and metrics for project health

Rational Requirements Composer: Helps teams define and use requirements throughout the project lifecycle

Rational System Architect: Helps you link, consolidate, and analyze information spanning strategy, business architecture, information systems, and technology infrastructure

Rational Team Concert: Provides agile and formal planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health

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IBM helps financial institutions dramatically reduce the costs and risks of compliance management and meet the compliance needs of regulations, such as Dodd-Frank, Basel III and Solvency II.

Multichannel development

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Learn more about how Rational solutions can help streamline multichannel development for the banking industry - from development to test with team optimization.

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IBM provides a collaborative, integrated development platform designed to help your core banking transformation.

Transforming financial systems and applications

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This complimentary e-Kit is a collection of materials that introduces you to IBM Rational® solutions that help financial services institutions (FSIs) transform core systems and applications to meet customer demand.

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