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Prudential cracks Egg sell-off
News UK insurance firm Prudential has agreed to sell Egg, its online bank. Prudential announced on Monday morning that it has accepted an offer of £575m for Egg from Citigroup, the US financial services giant.
[January 29, 2007, 12:35]
Prudential may axe 520 IT jobs
News Financial services group Prudential may cut more than 500 UK-based IT jobs as part of a wider programme of offshoring and outsourcing. PruTech, the business unit of Prudential that delivers its IT services, may axe up to 520 jobs as Prudential...
[March 19, 2007, 16:25]
Case Study: Tangram Ensures Prudential's IT Assets
White Papers Keeping track of thousands of computers and multiple IT systems was not a high priority at the Prudential Insurance Company of America in the mid-1990s. The company made no great push to restore order to the relative chaos until a Y2K vendor...
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Wipro Case Study: Prudential plc
White Papers Prudential, a financial services company faced the challenge was to realign product centric systems and create a customer-centric platform across the organization. The solution was One Customer Database (OCDB), a central repository of customer...
[March 2, 2009, 23:55]
VMware Insures Improved Customer Service for Prudential
White Papers Prudential UK is part of the Prudential group and provides a range of financial products and services including annuities, corporate and individual pensions, savings and investment products to around seven million customers.
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
Apple G5 chips 'in short supply'
News Financial firm Prudential Equity Group reported this week that the availability of G5 processors for Apple could be "worse than anticipated", according to a report on Forbes. We now believe that IBM may be having difficulty meeting its revised...
[August 18, 2004, 18:00]
Egg floatation? Warm reception from analysts
News It is thought the Prudential may try to cash-in on current enthusiasm for Internet stocks illustrated by Freeserve's market evaluation last week. Lance Close, senior analyst at Mintel research, believes this could be an unwise move for Prudential.
[July 30, 1999, 16:57]
UK financial organisations offer Firefox support
News A spokesman from life and pension provider Prudential said that it was adding partial support for Firefox next year. We are reviewing the accessibility and usability of PruMail with the intention of improving the user experience and making it...
[November 16, 2005, 15:00]
SAP rules out a hosted future
News The executives' comments contradict a Prudential Financial report released on Thursday. The report, written by Prudential analyst Brent Thill, says SAP is readying a subscription software service that would be SAP's direct answer to Salesforce.com.
[April 15, 2005, 14:45]
Tech industry cheers Bush pick for DoJ
News Ashcroft also earned accolades from Prudential Securities analyst James Lucier, who issued a report saying the former Missouri attorney general would "restore investor confidence, post the dot-com crash".
[January 5, 2001, 8:46]
Pioneering Internet bank to float
News Prudential, Britain's biggest life insurance group, announced that it will offer a minority stake in its online bank subsidiary later this year. Prudential said Egg customers who signed up before 22 February will be able to participate in the...
[February 23, 2000, 14:36]
Analyst downgrades Microsoft on PC worries
News Prudential Securities analyst Douglas J Crook downgraded his estimates on Microsoft Wednesday, citing more ominous news about PC sales. Crook penned his report after Prudential researchers visited computer manufacturers in Taiwan, South Korea and...
[December 13, 2000, 14:58]
Egg hit by 'security alert'
News Users of Egg, the Internet banking arm of insurance giant Prudential, were hit with a "security alert" Friday, complete with a large message flashing onto their screens. Users were told that digital codes protecting the site were not valid.
[October 25, 1999, 15:25]
AOL invests $100m in Amazon
News It would seem to me in the big-picture scheme of things that Amazon needs AOL and vice versa," said Katherine Styponias, an analyst at Prudential Securities. Prudential's Styponias said she has been paying a lot of attention to AOL's advertising...
[July 24, 2001, 9:14]
The Day Ahead: NetZero has cash, no outlook
News Ralph J Acampora, Prudential Securities technical analysis guru, sure has a lot of one-liners for a guy that reads charts all day. Acampora, who was speaking at the Prudential Volpe Technology conference in New York Wednesday, is part tarot card...
[November 2, 2000, 12:06]
HP merger opponent gains support
News In a research note issued late Wednesday, Prudential Securities analyst Kimberly Alexy wrote that she recently met with Hewlett and agrees with some of his criticism of the proposed $22bn (£15bn) acquisition of Compaq Computer.
[February 21, 2002, 8:46]
Egg enables cheques-by-email
News Email is on the way to making letter-writing obsolete, and now Egg, the Internet bank launched by the Prudential, is launching a service that aims to do the same with the venerable chequebook. A service launched this week, Egg Pay, will let Egg...
[April 22, 2002, 14:38]
Downgrades hit AMD shares
News Prudential Securities cut AMD from a "strong buy" rating to "accumulate" while Banc of America Securities slashed it from a "strong buy" recommendation to a "market perform. Advanced Micro Devices shares fell 1 13/16, or 6 percent, to 28 11/16...
[September 13, 2000, 18:21]
Halifax moves into Internet banking fray
News It follows Internet banking offerings from insurance company Prudential and the Co-operative Bank. The Halifax is the latest bank to embrace the Internet with the launch of an online banking and sharedealing service Tuesday.
[October 6, 1999, 14:15]
Egg accidentally mails out credit card details
News Egg, a division of Prudential, has confessed to this blunder but claims that it does not represent a breach of its computer security measures. Online banking service Egg has admitted sending at least one of its customers their personal credit card...
[November 18, 1999, 16:30]
