New prospects for corporate customers: banks that lead use Web 2.0 to optimize the financial supply chain.(Tech topics)

From: ABA Banking Journal | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Bielski, Lauren | Copyright information

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In cash management services, banks invested heavily in the web to better serve corporate and middle market customers. Although they spent a lot of money in the period between 2002 and 2005, notes Maggie Scarborough, research manager of corporate banking at Financial Insights, Framingham, Mass., most didn't receive commensurate revenues.

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