Business Continuity in Financial Services
Published By: Datamonitor
February 2003
R313-5289
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Description
Introduction
This report looks at the development of BCP/DR in the financial services sectors as financial institutions begin to assess the implications that IT systems' availability has on the operational performance of business, and the products and solutions that vendors in the market are offering to deal with these issues.
Scope
The report covers the strategic issues relating to the business continuity planning and disaster market in Western European financial services
The report looks into the vendor dynamics of the main European players in the provision of availability services
The report provides an intuitive segmentation of the BCP/DR market considering the functional overlaps that the market segments share
Report Highlights
The development of the BCP/DR market in financial services has developed over time initially driven by regulatory pressure, but later being also a real business need. Today the building of resilience is considered an essential part of any FSI's business planning, especially as regards its relevance to operational risk in the face of Basel II.
Reasons to Purchase
Enables the reader to understand the specific drivers for business continuity in FSIs within the context of changing regulatory and IT environments
Examines business continuity implications for business and IT investment in areas such as STP, enabling the reader to anticipate demand in the market
The report enables the reader to understand how terrorism is used to motivate overall business continuity investment decisions
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Introduction
- Market context
- Market segmentation
- Market drivers
- The future decoded
- Action points
CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION
- What is this report about?
- Who is the target reader?
- How to use this report
CHAPTER 3 MARKET CONTEXT
- Introduction
- Business continuity planning and disaster recovery
- Market segments
- Drivers and trends
- Globalization and regional integration
- The move towards 24/7 business
- STP and process automation
- Operational risk and Basel II
- Terrorism
- Conclusions
CHAPTER 4 COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS
- Introduction
- Competitive layout
- SchlumbergerSema
- Sungard
- Conclusions
CHAPTER 5 THE FUTURE DECODED
- Introduction
- Key findings
- The European financial services BCP/DR market
- The European BCP/DR in highlighted markets
- Backup & restore and availability services & products markets
- The BCP/DR market by line of business
- Financial markets
- Retail banking & insurance
- Conclusions
- BCP/DR by line of business and country
CHAPTER 6 ACTION POINTS
- Introduction
- Financial services institutions must recognize IT risk as a part of operational risk
and act to identify, understand and reduce it
- Both financial services institutions and systems integrators must be aware of the
resilience implications of increased integration and STP between applications
- Terrorism as a risk element must be proportioned in the context of risk to business
processes and IT systems
- Financial services institutions must ensure that their business continuity plans do
not fall into the hardware trap at the expense of making proper investments in
software and operational structure planning
- Vendors approaching the business continuity market must develop offerings that
are capable of combining the professional services-based BCP capability with a
product offering capable of delivering true business continuity
CHAPTER 7 APPENDIX
- Definitions
- Line of business definitions
- Market definitions
- Abbreviations and terminology
- Forecasts and assumptions
- Complementary research
- SPP writing team
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