Banking & Finance

The past few years have seen extraordinary levels of upheaval across all financial markets and it has yet to calm down. The crisis that began in the sub-prime mortgage market and spread rapidly across the globe has affected markets worldwide. The crisis, and its impact, has brought major changes to business models, business processes and regulation for virtually all financial services companies.

The banking industry in particular has had to downsize and improve their operating systems to work more efficiently and cost-effectively. 1E has served many financial organizations to reach such objectives through deploying Efficient IT solutions. Not only have they made significant savings and are able to run their IT processes more efficiently, the have also improved their green credentials.

HSBC

HSBC Technology & Services (HTS) needed a solution to enable global roll-out of the Windows Operating System, software packages and ongoing patch updates. HTS chose Nomad from 1E and uses the solution for 99% of all software deployments and patch updates to HSBC’s fleet of desktop and laptop machines. In 2009 alone, HSBC was able to facilitate the deployment of over 33 million software distribution packages globally without the need for costly desktop management servers and software in every location.

1E has a significant presence in both banking and finance, including customers like Banco Popular, HSBC, ING Investment Management, Kiwibank, Merrill Lynch, Nomura, Schroder and Wells Fargo who all rely on 1E to help them to significantly lower costs and reduce their CO2 emissions. Our industry leading solutions focus on improving IT efficiency by identifying and reducing costs and waste in hardware, software, energy and time.

Kiwibank deploys NightWatchman® and will save up to NZ$24,570 in energy costs, reduce energy use by 163,800 kWh and reduce CO2 emissions by 32 tonnes in the first year.

Spanish retail bank Grupo Banco Popular deployed Nomad to distribute and manage software updates, helping them to improve contact with branches and improve customer service, lower IT expenditure and deliver faster, more resilient, network performance without impacting email and other important branch traffic.