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Bankers as Buyers(tm) is a collection of research, observations and articles about what technology, solutions and services bankers will buy in 2009 and the changing financial industry landscape. The full 2009 Bankers As Buyers study can be downloaded at: http://www.williammills.com/images/pdfs/bab%202009%20final.pdf This blog entry is about 1,200 words...down from the full report's 40 pages. According to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (June 2008 data) and Credit Union National Association (November 2008 data), the depository institution landscape is as follows: Commercial Banks 7,146 Savings Banks 1,238 Credit Unions 8,064 Total 16,448 For the FDIC bank profile, see: http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Overall, Financial Insights is predicting a reduction in IT spending for North American banking. This will mark the first time Financial Insights has forecast negative growth for the industry since before the company and its predecessor firm started forecasting ...

If you market technology or related services to the mortgage or real estate market, you should note that there is one less news outlet. News from October Research -- Real Estate Technology News folded into Title Report and Valuation Review this month As of Jan. 1, the online content for Real Estate Technology News is being integrated into several of our other premier publications. Building on the wealth of stories written over the past seven years, the October Research editorial staff will continue to provide critical technology news and analysis for each of our markets. We encourage you to visit our other publication Web sites to access our First in Class coverage of the real estate and settlement services industries: Valuation Review (www.valuationreview.com) Title Report (www.thetitlereport.com)

Available for download at: http://www.williammills.com/images/pdfs/bab%202009%20final.pdf Please feel free to share the information with your friends and business associates. This year's study runs 40 pages -- I will have a summary version in a few weeks for you as well. Best regards, Scott Mills, APR