High Performance Banking


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Recommends ways for banks to improve profits and performance by competing on the basis of efficiency, integrity and excellent service rather than price




High-Performance Computing in Finance


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High-Performance Computing (HPC) delivers higher computational performance to solve problems in science, engineering and finance. There are various HPC resources available for different needs, ranging from cloud computing– that can be used without much expertise and expense – to more tailored hardware, such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or D-Wave’s quantum computer systems. High-Performance Computing in Finance is the first book that provides a state-of-the-art introduction to HPC for finance, capturing both academically and practically relevant problems.




High Performance Branch Banking


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The need to sell banking product effectively, sell at every opportunity, and sell to every customer must be front and center in all employees' minds. In High Performance Branch Banking acclaimed author and retail banking consultant Dwight Ritter presents his outline for creating and managing a successful sales-oriented bank branch, one that satisfies customers with service and product choices, while upper management is more than satisfied with production. Ritter defines the branch manager's primary duties as sales, service, planning, human resource development, and operations. The sales/service function is too important to be misunderstood or neglected. The majority of High Performance Branch Banking addresses this vital area.




The Breakthrough Banking Blueprint


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This book is an expert insider account that outlines how the top community banks in the game have been hitting the target every quarter without skipping a beat, despite recessions, big-bank buyouts, and vicious competition for deposits. It's the ultimate blueprint for an unlikely success story: Stop just surviving, and learn how to thrive.




High Performance Financial Systems


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This study outlines the framework of high performance financial systems and the parameters for financial firms operating in them. It begins with an intuitive structural model of financial intermediation, and then considers issues facing players in, and users of the financial system, with emphasis on strategic positioning alternatives facing banks and other types of financial institutions, and the principal determinants of their competitive performance. This volume also deals with a critical and controversial dimension in the design of the financial system, the relationship between the structure of financial institutions, and the linkages to ownership and the control process in industry. Using Singapore as a case study, the final two sections apply the lessons of the economics of financial system performance to the battle among financial centres.










The 7 Obsessions of High-Performance Banks


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Today's banks operate in a much different and challenging landscape than ever before. The industry is evolving as top performing organizations are differentiating themselves in an industry that is becoming highly concentrated. While operational efficiency and technology are compelling imperatives, today's banks are challenged to execute on the most critical objectives. In The 7 Obsessions of High-Performance Banks, author, coach, and former banker Vic Levesque gives today's leaders the precise tools to focus on the most important drivers of organizational performance in banking. Changes in customer demands, advancing technology, regulatory reform, and demographic preferences are all converging to redefine the competitive landscape. Today's executives need a new way of thinking about how they compete and survive to deliver the most to their owners and customers. In The 7 Obsessions of High-Performance Banks, Levesque goes beyond traditional thinking to address seven critical disciplines being practiced by some of America's top performing banks. The 7 Obsessions of High-Performance Banks offers today's leaders an integrated framework in which these disciplines interact with each other which, when aligned and applied, will give banks the ability to make a material difference in the very performance that drives value for all their constituents. The 7 Obsessions of High-Performance Banks is a must read for today's banking executives and up-and-coming leaders and anyone who wants an edge on altering the course of their organizational performance.







High-Performance Computing


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Over the past decade high performance computing has demonstrated the ability to model and predict accurately a wide range of physical properties and phenomena. Many of these have had an important impact in contributing to wealth creation and improving the quality of life through the development of new products and processes with greater efficacy, efficiency or reduced harmful side effects, and in contributing to our ability to understand and describe the world around us. Following a survey ofthe U.K.'s urgent need for a supercomputingfacility for aca demic research (see next chapter), a 256-processor T3D system from Cray Research Inc. went into operation at the University of Edinburgh in the summer of 1994. The High Performance Computing Initiative, HPCI, was established in November 1994 to support and ensure the efficient and effective exploitation of the T3D (and future gen erations of HPC systems) by a number of consortia working in the "frontier" areas of computational research. The Cray T3D, now comprising 512 processors and total of 32 CB memory, represented a very significant increase in computing power, allowing simulations to move forward on a number offronts. The three-fold aims of the HPCI may be summarised as follows; (1) to seek and maintain a world class position incomputational scienceand engineering, (2) to support and promote exploitation of HPC in industry, commerce and business, and (3) to support education and training in HPC and its application.