The Impact of Information Technology on the UK Financial Sector
I have studied that in business, information technology can be used if effective in a strategic way in order to gain a competitive advantage and this can be seen in the UK financial services. In such an industry it can be said to be one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing sectors of the economy. Such a rate of change and growth has created a prolific environment for the innovation of information technology. The application of information technology has had a qualitative impact by changing the mode of operation in the financial sector, modifying the range of services provided and linking together geographically isolated financial hubs into a global financial community in order
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The function of IT has been one very important way in which financial services firms have sought to contain their costs. For example, in commercial banking the application of successive generations of computerisation since the early 1960’s has dramatically reduced the size of ‘back-office’ staffing, while the growth of expensive paper-based systems for money transmission (cheque and credit clearing systems) has been curtailed by the development of paperless computerised payment systems such as
BACS (Bankers Automated Clearing System) in the UK and the development of EFTPoS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale) systems.
The role of information technology has grown and changed continuously in the banking sector. The banking industry has used IT to enable increases in the volume of transactions as well as the development of new products; applications have ranged from back-office (check and accounts) processing, mortgage and loan application processing, and the electronic funds transfer to more strategic innovations such
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Given the magnitude of the banking industry's investments in IT over the last two decades, large increases in productivity might have been expected. One reason these have not appeared in measures of productivity is that such measures in the banking industry remain highly problematic. A second reason for the lack of large increases in measured productivity is that early applications of IT proved to be costly and cumbersome. Software and equipment had to be updated and replaced frequently. A great array of new products constantly called for new software and communication capabilities. Cost control and productivity tracking systems lagged behind the new technologies in a rapidly changing marketplace. The result was that tangible paybacks from IT investment were delayed.
Since its development in the 60’s information technology has been a major support for such a dynamic change and growth in UK financial sector and it also is central to their strategic and operational success. However the introduction and adaptation of
There has been considerable changes in the regulation of financial markets in the UK and other countries. Why is this? Financial markets tend to be more highly regulated than other markets. Explain why.
...personal benefit in the forms of military advancement, architecture, art, entertainment, and technical books. Nonetheless, courts’ patronage to inventors, architects, artists, engineers, printers, and others helped shape the physical world (buildings, machines, etc.) as well as the psychological world(geometric perspective, ideas in printed works like empiricism and Protestantism, etc.) of the time. The thoughts and feelings of the people who thought of the technologies and innovations played a role in what ideas materialized. The Renaissance illustrates well how both the interests of the people and how the context in which technological development occurs shape the types of technologies that are developed and how they are put to use.
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The Medici family was able to make their achievement in the Renaissance because they had tremendous power. The source of the Medici’s power and influence was their great riches. During the period before the Renaissance, known as the Middle ages, the Church’s influence was to have a humble and simple life. Throughout that course in time, money and grandness did not count but the inherited noble title that people were born with; people were born into a fate and were stuck in it for life. There were no opportunities to climb up the ladder of power. In contrast, during the Renaissance, wealthy families like the Medici’s were able to flaunt their wealth and get attention for it. It became praiseworthy to beautify art, their palaces and possessions as an expression of humanism. Art, philosophy, wealth and grandness were the most important part of life. Wealth drove the Medici’s and other prominent people in Florence at the time. Obtaining wealth was the ultimate goal. A person’s level of wealth determined their political power and social success. “. . . The magnificence that has come to be associated with Florence in the ages of Loranzo [de medici] is attributed largely to the moral transformation from which ostentatious display w...
This wealth made patronage of the arts and the growth of Renaissance culture possible. In turn patronage was a way of demonstrating one’s wealth and power. Wealthy families constantly tried to outdo each other with the extravagance of their commissions, with self-advertisement a key feature of Renaissance patronage. This is epitomised by Masaccio (1401-1428), in ‘The Holy Trinity’ fresco (1425) in the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence. In it, the patrons, Lorenzo Lenzi and his wife, kneel in front of St John the Baptist, Mary, Christ and God.
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One of the largest ‘revolutions’ in Italian art was the period of collaboration and innovation in Florence at the start of the Renaissance. During the late 1400’s, the wealthy Medici banking dynasty were already major catalysts for the Renaissance, using their wealth and influence to teach and fund new artists, and to inspire new advances in the art world. While the family wasn’t frivolous with their money, they tended to have very good eyes for talent and weren’t afraid to be generous when they saw potential. Prominent artists such as Michelangelo, Donatello, Alberti, and Ghiberti, to list a few, were patronized by the Medici family, giving these men the financial and political support to develop as artists and create art that fulfilled their artistic vision. In addition, each of these artists had moderate to massive contributions to the evolution of Renaissance art, in sculpture, painting, metalwork, and
EFFECT OF THE NEW DIVERSITY IN PATRONS HAVE ON ARTS IN THE 15 – 18 CENTURIES (RENAISSANCE ERA)
Many of us today have things in our culture that we appreciate without thinking about where they have come from. The things we enjoy so much could be from another culture, and even another place in time. This document will explore the influence of Italian Renaissance art on today's civilization, which has greatly changed the art of today.
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Advances in technology have changed businesses dramatically, in particular the communication and information technology that are conducted in firms, which changed the appearance and pace of businesses over the past few decades. ICT in particular, has evolved a lot over the past 30 years; important information can be stored in computers rather than being in drawers enabling information to be transferred at a greater volume and speed (Guy, 2009). ICT has also expanded various forms of telecommunications and workload conducted in businesses, internet examples of this include: e-mails can be used to communicate with others...