2007 Analysis & Opinion Briefs

28 A & O Briefs were published during 2007 (listed from the most recent to oldest). Click on the title to read a summary of each A & O Brief. Each subscriber client receives the complete A & O Brief via email.

• How Bad Can It (the Subprime Meltdown) Get?
• Fiserv and Fidelity Divest “Non-core banking” business units
• Countrywide Lays an Egg - Is It Broken, Rotten, or Deviled?
• Cheers or Tears As Commerce Takes TD's Money?
• ACI Fills a (Payments) Hole in IBM's Banking Partner Base
• Countrywide Layoffs Indicative of Mortgage Market Pain
• Did Bank of America Pull a Warren Buffett?
• Has the Subprime Meltdown Created a New Credit Crunch Paradigm?
• Wal-Mart Will Hedge Its Bet on Banking
• Mortgage REITs: Going Once, Going Twice....Gone?
• Fiserv Opens Its Wallet and Grabs CheckFree
• B of A Wins LaSalle, Time For Consortium's Plan B
• Subprime Pains Lead to New Rules and Lower Volume
• Dutch AG Offers Thoughtful Opinion on B of A - LaSalle Deal
• Wal-Mart Wades Into Banking Its Underbanked Customers
• Citi Needs Time and a Miracle to Reach "New Frontier"
• Wachovia + A. G. Edwards Raises Retail Brokers Stakes; but Payoff is Risk
• Retail Upgrade at Citi Would Make Some Vendor's Day
• M&I Spins Metavante Onto the Dance Floor
• B of A Makes a Move for ABN AMRO's LaSalle Bank
• CheckFree's Cloudy Future: B of A Has Billpay Options
• Barclays' ABN AMRO Deal Has Company: Is 3 a Crowd or a Winner?

• Fiserv Adds NetEconomy to Its Portfolio

• Wal-Mart Will Still Find a Way to Skin the Cat

• BBVA raises its US bet

• CheckFree buys Corillian

• Is subprime a sinkhole?