News@Cisco: EMEA Financial Services News

From Desktop Video to Digital Signage, Digital Media Advances

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

The enterprise digital media market, based largely around the power of video, is growing rapidly. In 2006, 31 billion streams of video were served over the Internet in the U.S., according to comScore, Inc., a global Internet information provider, but in the month of May, 2007 alone, 60 billion video streams were served. IDC estimates that the use of enterprise video will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ...

Cisco and IBM To Transform Banking Experience

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

SAN JOSE, Calif., and ARMONK, NY - November 12, 2007 - Cisco® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced joint front office solutions that are poised to transform the retail banking experience by enhancing customer interaction and collaboration across all types of delivery channels, such as branches, contact centers and self-service kiosks. The new modular solutions integrate front and back office systems with collaboration technologies such as Voice over IP (VoIP), streaming video, Web ...

Cedacri Selects Cisco Data Center Infrastructure to Target New Customers

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:00:00 PST

MILAN, Italy, October 26, 2007 - Cisco® announced today that Cedacri, a leading information technology (IT) provider for financial institutions in Italy, has chosen a Cisco data center infrastructure to help reduce the cost of winning new customers in Milan, one of Italy's key financial centers. The Cisco technology will help Cedacri deliver expertise and services to financial institutions without the prohibitive cost of building a local data center. Banking institutions will benefit ...

Cisco Invests in Building a Collaborative Partner Ecosystem for Industry Solutions

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:00:00 PST

DUBLIN, Ireland, September 13, 2007 - As part of a continued effort to help build a collaborative and adaptive channel to accelerate customer and partner success, Cisco® today introduced the Cisco Industry Solutions Partner Network. The new Industry Solutions Partner Network will engage, enable and reward a global community of channel partners, application providers and device manufacturers to collaborate and deliver industry-specific solutions that address the business needs ...

Cisco Unified Communications Helps Charles Stanley Bring Stock Broking into the 21st Century

Thu, 31 May 2007 04:00:00 PST

Growth, business efficiency and customer service are priorities for any business in the financial services sector. And Charles Stanley, one of the largest independently-owned stockbrokers in the United Kingdom, has achieved all three thanks to a migration to Cisco® Unified Communications. The company, with 26 regional ...

Cisco Unveils New TelePresence Solutions to Connect Multiple Locations and Organizations in Real-Time Collaborative Meetings

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:00:00 PST

HANNOVER, Germany (CeBIT 2007) - March 16, 2007 - Cisco® today announced a set of new technologies that extend the capabilities of the Cisco TelePresence meeting solution to enable virtual meetings in multiple locations at one time and to provide businesses with the freedom to organize meetings with customers or partners outside the corporate firewall. Cisco is also introducing a number of solutions that will create a more collaborative meeting environment, including innovative tools ...

Millennium BCP, Portugal's Largest Bank, Establishes Platform for Growth with Cisco

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PST

LISBON, Portugal, August 9, 2006 -- Cisco Systems® today announced that Millennium BCP, the largest private financial group in Portugal, has selected Cisco's retail banking solution to transform its information and communication infrastructure to a converged voice and data Internet Protocol (IP) network. The network transformation project is central to Millennium BCP's strategic business plan, providing a highly secure, unified platform that supports the growth of online e-banking ...

Norwich Union Targets Improved Storage Data Management and Year-on-Year Savings with a Cisco Storage Area Network

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:00:00 PST

LONDON, 5 July 2006 - Norwich Union, the UK's largest insurer, is deploying a Cisco Systems storage area network (SAN) to improve storage management, increase data security and reliability and help reduce overall IT costs. The Norwich Union SAN, built using Cisco MDS 9000 Multilayer fabric switches and directors, will help the company consolidate 'islands' of storage and enable the company to deploy more than 2500 SAN ports in support of a multi-platform data centre environment. ...

Cisco Helps Third-Largest French Bank, Groupe Caisse d'Epargne, Cut Wide Area Network Infrastructure Costs by 50%

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:00:00 PST

PARIS, June 28, 2006 - Cisco Systems® today announced that Arpège, the information technology (IT) services division of France's third-largest bank, Groupe Caisse d'Epargne, is deploying a Cisco® Wide Area File Services solution across five technical centres in southern and eastern France as part of an overall Cisco Data Center Network Architecture. Cisco collaborated with Cisco Gold Certified Partner Telindus on the solution, which is expected to help the bank save 50 ...

Bancpost Increases Operational and Sales Effectiveness of Retail Branches With Cisco Unified Communications System

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 PST

BUCHAREST, Romania, April 5, 2006 - Cisco Systems® today announced that Bancpost, one of the leading retail banks in Romania, has deployed a new Unified Communications system based on the Cisco® Unified CallManager platform. This implementation, one of the most extensive Internet Protocol (IP) communications projects in the Romanian financial and banking sector, was undertaken by Bancpost to increase its operational and sales effectiveness via a converged data and voice network that ...

UniCredit Romania Prepares for Rapid Growth with Cisco Unified Communications System

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 PST

BUCHAREST, Romania, April 4, 2006 - Cisco Systems® today announced that UniCredit Romania, part of UniCredit Group, a leader in banking in Central and Eastern Europe, has deployed, at its new headquarters in Bucharest, a new business voice and data communications system built completely on Cisco® technology. The system provides centrally-managed, high-availability data and voice services for staff at UniCredit Romania's headquarters and 50 branch offices throughout the ...

Leading Financial Institution Selects Kashya and Cisco For Deployment of Intelligent Fabric Infrastructure

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PST

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 30, 2005 - Kashya, the leading supplier of data protection solutions for disaster recovery, announced today that it's KBX5000 Data Protection Appliance for the Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap Service (SANTap) had been successfully evaluated for deployment at the Nationwide Building Society, one of the UK's largest financial institutions. Nationwide is the largest building society in the world, and the second-largest savings provider and fourth-largest mortgage ...

Standard Life Enhances Customer Service, Reduces Costs, and Improves Competitiveness with Advanced Technologies

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:00:00 PST

ARMONK, NY and SAN JOSE, Calif., November 22, 2005 - IBM and Cisco Systems has completed a three year deployment of a state-of-the-art Internet Protocol (IP) Communications (IPC) network at Standard Life, one of the world's leading assurance companies headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. The five-year managed services contract, with two years left to run, which includes an advanced IP network and contact centre, has helped the company improve competitiveness and optimise operational ...

Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) Selects Cisco Integrated Services Router to Support Branch Transformation Process

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PST

BUCHAREST, Romania - November 16, 2005 - Cisco Systems today announced that the Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) has selected a new communication solution based on the Cisco Integrated Services Routers in order to enhance its branch network infrastructure. The bank is deploying a state of the art infrastructure in its branches nationwide, with integrated security to address industry compliance and help build a long term competitive advantage in the Romanian financial services market. ...

Allianz Hungary Estimates $100,000-a-year Saving with Cisco Data Centre Network Architecture

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PST

GARTNER IT EXPO, Cannes, & Budapest, Hungary, November 7, 2005 - Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), announced today that its optical and storage area networking (SAN) technologies will help Allianz Hungary extend its business continuity infrastructure, reduce operational risk and address industry compliance guidelines. Allianz, Hungary's largest insurance company with three million customers, estimates it will save more than $100,000 a year by deploying the Cisco technology instead of ...

BHF-BANK is 2000th Worldwide Customer to Deploy Cisco MDS 9000-based Storage Area Network

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:00 PST

GITEX, Dubai, Sept. 26th, 2005: Cisco Systems today announced that BHF-BANK in Germany is the 2000th customer worldwide to deploy a multiprotocol storage area network (SAN) since the introduction of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent directors and fabric switches in December, 2002. The Frankfurt-am-Main based German private bank is deploying the Cisco MDS 9509 director to underpin its business continuity infrastructure between data centres in Frankfurt. BHF-BANK ...

Research Confirms Cisco 'Branch of the Future' Concept Helps Banks Cut Costs, Improve Security

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 03:00:00 PST

September 9, 2005 By Jason Deign, News@Cisco Research by the business information company Datamonitor indicates that European bank branches can derive significant benefits from the use of converged Internet Protocol networks. Datamonitor's white paper Network synergies in branch renewal, commissioned by Cisco Systems®, says that banks could save money and improve service in areas such as marketing and security. Banks throughout ...

Cisco Sponsors Chief Information Security Officer Executive Summit to Encourage Dialogue as Security Leads the Corporate Agenda

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:00:00 PST

GENEVA, June 13th, 2005 - Cisco Systems® today announced that, building on the success of last year's inaugural MIS Training Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Executive Summit, it will once more act as lead sponsor for the event. The summit, on June 16 and 17, 2005, will feature presentations from Cisco security experts alongside a number of the world's leading information technology (IT) security chiefs. Topics at the event, which is also being sponsored by BT, BSI ...

Research Demonstrates How Internet Technology May Help Banks Make Queuing Rewarding For Customers

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:45:00 PST

LONDON, March 1, 2005 - Cisco Systems® announced today that moves to introduce Internet Protocol (IP) networks into bank branches could soon be helping to cut queues and even make them more rewarding, according to research from Datamonitor. The analyst firm has singled out marketing, and specifically the delivery of plasma-screen based 'infotainment' to waiting customers, as one of two major areas where banks - and their customers - can benefit from branch renewal programs. The other is ...

Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) chooses the Cisco Business Ready Data Centre solution

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:15:00 PST

MILAN, Italy, January 10, 2005 - Cisco Systems® today announced that banking group Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), the oldest banking institute worldwide, will use Cisco's Business Ready Data Centre framework to create a network architecture, which will help reduce operational costs, improve flexibility and enhance business agility. MPS will consolidate and interconnect storage resources at its two regional data centres in Italy using Cisco Systems integrated data center ...