With constant pressure to develop powerful yet cost-effective technology solutions, financial institutions are recognizing the economic advantages and operational benefits of investing in a high-performance IT infrastructure. Itanium®-based solutions help financial institutions to:
  • Comply with tighter regulations, including Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the U.S. Patriot Act and anti-money laundering laws (AML)
  • Automate trading by integrating the financial stream across multiple environments and systems
  • Achieve rapid computational analysis of risk and compliance requirements
  • Generate customer insights through data mining
  • Link customer service channels and enterprise applications
  • Track, record and respond to transactions across the entire enterprise
  • Manage fraud detection
  • Provide superior portfolio management
  • Deliver best of breed accounting and operations functionality

The enhanced Intel® Itanium® architecture, matched with Itanium-based solutions designed to take advantage of the inherent capabilities of the processor team up to create a perfectly-matched environment for the data-intense, always-on financial services computing landscape. With RAS features offering 99.99999 percent uptime and the ability to scale to the needs of changing business, it's no wonder why five of the top nine financial services corporations have chose Itanium-based systems as the foundation for their computing needs.

"If you're doing large-scale computing applications that will impact your business, if you need to support large numbers of users and massive data sets, if you need outstanding reliability-you need to be looking at the Itanium 2 processor." Tim Eitel, chief information officer, Raymond James Financial

As information loads continue to grow and the demand for seamless sharing of information between all levels of the financial enterprise becomes necessary, the continued power and flexibility of Itanium-based solutions will continue to provide the level of computing needed to satisfy the needs of both customers and the enterprise.