BearingPoint Unplugged Podcasts

Business process transformation in automotive finance

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:35:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay, director of Global Field Marketing, speaks with Bob Johnson, a manager in BearingPoint’s Financial Services lending and leasing practice.

Bob just Co-authored a paper with Bryan Ignozzi on "Business process transformation in automotive finance”. The paper and podcast cover issues such as:

Why was the Automotive Finance area ripe for transformation?
Why is it hard for any Automotive Finance companies to transform?
“Cracking the code” in Automotive Finance?
Describing the process
Advice for people just starting out

For more information on corporate real estate please visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/autofinance

Corporate Real Estate: Improving Return on Assets

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Mon, 30 July 2007 14:35:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay, director of Global Field Marketing, speaks with Xavier Menendez, a managing director in the BearingPoint’s Real Estate and Capital Asset solutions group.

The group just completed a paper on "Corporate Real Estate: Improving Return on Assets”. The paper and podcast cover issues such as:

Why is corporate real estate so overlooked as an asset to be optimized?
Why is it hard for companies to get on top of?
What are the benefits of cracking the code for Corporate Real Estate?
Describing the process
Advice for people just starting out

For more information on corporate real estate please visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/CRE

Offshoring Risk Management

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Fri, 08 June 2007 14:45:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay, director of Global Field Marketing, speaks with Sandeep Vishnu, a managing director and leader of the Financial Services Enterprise Risk Management practice of BearingPoint.

Sandeep and his team just authored a paper on "Managing risk to improve offshoring results”. The paper and podcast cover issues such as:

Why is Risk Management often overlooked when it comes to offshoring?
What makes this hard for companies to get on top of?
What are the benefits of cracking the code of Offshoring Risk Management?
Advice to people who are just starting out.

For more information on offshoring risks please visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/offshorerisk

Omnibus Accounts

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Fri, 1 June 2007 15:25:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing and speaks with Janet Hanson, a managing director in BearingPoint’s Financial Services practice.

Janet authored a paper on "The Future of Mutual Fund Omnibus Accounts”. The paper and podcast cover issues such as:

Why is the concern over Omnibus Accounts today?
How does the regulatory environment in Financial Services today play into this?
What is the Future of Omnibus accounts?
Recommendations for firms?

For more information on the future of Omnibus accounts please visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/omnibus

Client Data Remediation

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Fri, 1 June 2007 09:45:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Ari Marcus, a Managing Director in BearingPoint’s Financial Services practice.

Ari just authored a paper on "Automating Client Data Remediation to Improve Risk Management”. In this podcats Ari discusses:

Why is automating client data so important to financial services organizations?
Do you really think it is worth the effort?
What 3 words would you use to describe the process?
Having done it, what advice would you give to people just starting out?

For more informatiton on client data remediation visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/CDI

Capturing Current State Architecture

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:30:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing, speaks with Raj Rajendran, a senior architect in BearingPoint’s Financial Services practice.

Raj just authored a paper on "Capturing Current State Architecture in Financial Services Organizations”.

In the paper Raj discusses:

Why capturing a current state architecture important to financial services organizations?
Do you really think it is worth it?
What 3 words would you use to describe the process?
Having done it, what advice would you give to people just starting out?

For more information and to read the paper visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/CSA

Enterprise Entitlements Management

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Wed, 2 May 2007 11:30:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing, speaks with Alex Berson a Director of Information & Identity Management for BearingPoint's Financial Services group.

Alex just authored a paper on "Enterprise Entitlements Management: Who should see what?”

Can you help to define what Enterprise Entitlements are?
Are there key obstacles to getting started?
Where's the landmines or "Pitfalls" in such an approach?

For more information and to read the paper visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/entitlements

Banking Channel Optimization

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:30:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Peter Nikonovich a Managing Director in the Retail Banking Practice at BearingPoint.

Peter just authored a paper on "Banking Channel Optimization: Rationalizing the Customer Experience".

The paper and this podcast dicsuss:

What do you mean by channel optimization?
What are the critical elements of getting a channel optimization strategy done?
How do you go about it and what are the pitfalls in such an approach?

For more information please visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/channeloptimize

Rules Testing

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:30:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Steve Kolden Manager in the FS Technology Group, Lane Martin Senior Consultant from the FS Payments practice and Marc Sunga a Senior Consultant in the FS Technology Group.

This experienced team just authored a paper on " Using Automated Rules Testing to Improve Lending Decisions".

The podcast discusses:

Benefits behind using an automated approach to rules testing
Benefits lending clients can realize by using this type of testing process
Using a rules based approach to testing in your environment

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/rulestesting

Sarbanes-Oxley Controls

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:40:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Louis Anon a Senior Manager in BearingPoint's Financial Services group.

Louis just authored a paper on "Integrating Sarbanes-Oxley Controls into your Corporate Governance Framework".

The podcast discusses:

What is meant by a corporate governance framework
Why it is important to integrate sox controls into your framework
How do you integrate sox controls and what are the pitfalls in such an approach

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/soxcontrols

Payments Strategy

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Tues, 16 Jan 2007 10:00:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks Chris Hadorn a managing director of BearingPoint's Financial Services group heading the Payments practices.

Chris is the author of a new paper on "Creating a New Payments Strategy for the new Banking World".

The podcast discusses:

Factors affecting the payments landscape
Understanding the needs of a banks customers
Pitfalls of payments strategies

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/payments

Enterprise Risk Portfolio Management

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 4:00:00 PM EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Sandeep Vishnu a Managing Director of BearingPoint's Risk Management team and Roberto Setola Director in BearingPoint's Risk practice.

Sandeep and Roberto just co-authored a paper called " Brake Cruise or Accelerate?: using Enterprise Risk Portfolio Management to Navigate Regulatory Uncertainty".

The podcast discusses:

What people should do as a result of challenges to Basel II by large scale banks and congress.
What constitutes uncertainty?
How should Financial Institutions navigate through uncertainty?

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/ABCofRisk

Enterprise Data Management

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:00:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Ari Marcus, the Managing Director of BearingPoint’s Financial Services Group, focused on enterprise data management.

Ari is the author of a new paper on delivering business value through enterprise data management.

The podcast discusses:

Ways in which you can create value with data?
The various components to an integrated approach to data management?
Landmines and pitfalls of undergoing an integrated approach to data management.

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/edm

Large Scale Testing

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:10:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Paul Ringmacher managing director in BearingPoint's Financial Services Technology group and Paul Sommerin a senior manager in the Financial Services Technology group.

Paul and Paul just released a new paper profiling the Large Scale testing work BearingPoint completed at a major US Mortgage lender

The podcast discusses:

What were the primary pain points that the solution addresses for this client?
Key obstacles to implementing the solution
Typical results provided by the solution
An example of a large scale testing engagement

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/fstechnology

21st Century Canadian Financial Institution

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:09:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Chris Owen managing director of BearingPoint's Financial Services group in Canada. Chris just authored a new research report on the Canadian Financial services marketplace called "Challenges at Home, Opportunities Abroad: Can Canadian Banks Thrive in the 21st Century?"

The podcats discusses, The biggest changes that are likely to effect the Canadian Financial Services Institutions? and the biggest obstacles for institutions in realizing these changes?

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/21stcentcanadianbanks

Enterprise Governance

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:07:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Louis Anon a Senior Manager in BearingPoint's Financial Services group. Louis just authored a paper on "The New Paradigm in Enterprise Governance"

The podcast discusses:

What is Governance - is it just policies and procedures?
Why it is a problem for companies
Suggest approach companies should take?
Pitfalls to such an approach?

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/governance

Offshore Vendor Security

paul.dunay@bearingpoint.com (Paul Dunay) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:05:00 EST

Your host Paul Dunay Director of Global Field Marketing speaks with Hitesh Anklesaria a Senior Manager in BearingPoint's Infrastructure solutions group as well as a CISSP, CISA. Hitesh authored a paper called "Just how secure is your offshore vendors?" and completed a data security assessment for a major Financial services client.

The podcast discusses:

How BearingPoint did a data security assessment
Findings and outcome of the assessments
Applications and pitfalls of the assement approach.

For more information visit http://www.bearingpoint.com/offshoresecurity