What Drives Merger Integration? BearingPoint Financial Services Experts Reveal What Your Organization Needs to Know

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With several major mergers coming together in today’s marketplace, BearingPoint, one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, announced today the availability of a three-part podcast series titled “What is Driving Merger Integration?,” outlining the ins and outs of merger integration.

BearingPoint’s podcasts dissect how and where organizations can improve their integration processes from a technology, global markets and banking perspective respectively, and serve to answer listeners’ primary questions about best practices for integrating organizations before, during and after a merger.

• The first podcast in the series, “What is Driving Merger Integration: A Technology Perspective,” showcases managing director of BearingPoint’s CIO Advisory Practice Julien Courbe. Julien’s insights span numerous best-of-breed recommendations, including the imperative need to enroll the business in all aspects of technology decisions during today’s lightning-speed mergers, where the two must work in aligned partnership to drive cost savings and efficiency.
• The second podcast features BearingPoint senior vice president of Global Capital Markets Peter Horowitz. “What is Driving Merger Integration: A Global Markets Perspective” highlights the importance of aligning and maintaining company values and vision, and prioritizing client, product and service segmentation appropriately to move toward the future of the business.
• The final podcast in the series, “What is Driving Merger Integration: A Banking Perspective,” features Frank Mackris, vice president of BearingPoint’s Banking practice. Frank speaks to the increasing complexity of today’s mergers, and stresses the need for decision makers to seize opportunities to create new cultures, blend leadership and advance technologies to move forward with the best of everything from each organization.

This podcast series is free and available now on the company’s New Thinking blog. To shed additional light on this timely topic, BearingPoint has also developed a corresponding merger integration Q&A where the experts further elaborate on their ideas.

BearingPoint regularly produces podcasts and expert content media that focus on various topics, themes and strategies within the financial services industry. Every day, BearingPoint’s consultants work with clients to overcome a wide array of business challenges with creativity and insight.

Quote, Attributable to Paul McDonnell, BearingPoint’s Financial Services Practice Leader

“With today’s unprecedented economic climate as the backdrop to our latest podcast series, BearingPoint’s Financial Services division tackles the big questions about merger integration from a three-pronged approach. In the spirit of our topic, the technology, global markets and banking best practice discussions from our experts work together to offer decision makers a comprehensive look at what they can and should be doing when it comes to integration today.”

About BearingPoint, Inc.

BearingPoint, Inc. (OTCBB:BGPTE) is one of the world's largest providers of management and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide. Based in McLean, Va., the firm has approximately 15,000 employees focusing on the Public Services, Commercial Services and Financial Services industries. BearingPoint professionals have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help clients achieve their goals, and working closely with them to get the job done. Our service offerings are designed to help our clients generate revenue, increase cost-effectiveness, manage regulatory compliance, integrate information and transition to “next-generation” technology. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.BearingPoint.com.

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