Impact of Shifting economics and dollar fluctuation on top outsourcing companies - Synopsis 
The impact of shifting economics, especially dollar fluctuation, is expected to have a telling impact on the outsourcing industry. The falling USD has eliminated part of the cost advantage provided by outsourcing destinations.

Asset Management Middle Office Outsourcing Trends
Asset management companies have reaped the benefits of outsourcing back-office functions since the 1990s. Moving a step ahead, the companies are now adding the middle office functions like trade operations and reconciliations to their outsourced services portfolio.

ITO Strategy and Trends in Financial Services - Synopsis
Outsourcing of IT functions is in a transition mode. An expected slowdown in the IT spends of large American companies, emergence of new outsourcing destinations and the rise of Europe as the new outsourcing epicenter has forced a change in the IT landscape.

FAO trends in Financial Services Synopsis
According to industry estimates, the global FAO market is expected to be more than USD 45 billion in 2008. In other words, the benefits of outsourcing finance and accounting functions is increasingly making sense to firms globally.

Equity Research Outsourcing Trends Synopsis
From merely executing non-core tasks to executing processes with advanced analytical and technical skills, outsourcing has moved up the value chain. Financial services firms are gradually seeing more value in outsourcing their knowledge processes, spawning the rise of Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO).

Bank Reconciliation Outsourcing trends
In the recent past, financial services firms have increasingly taken to the outsourcing model for a variety of reasons. Calls for greater operational efficiency and better customer services have led firms to offload non-core processes from their operational ambit.

Research and Analytics outsourcing trends - Synopsis
In the past few years, financial services firms have increasingly turned to outsourcing to combat a fiercely competitive marketplace and increasing customer demands.

HR Outsourcing in Financial Services
HR outsourcing has become a common offshoot of BPO industry and is no longer a buzzword for financial companies.

Insurance Outsourcing trends and analysis
Within last few years, outsourcing in the insurance sector has picked up speed. Diminishing margins, cost savings, increased competitive pressures, and multiplying claims disbursement are some of the reasons cited by insurance companies looking at outsourcing various operations.

Outsourcing vendor ratings across various specializations
At a time when data theft, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and attrition dominate every discussion on outsourcing, finding the right vendor is a big challenge for financial services firms.

Wealth Management Outsourcing
Outsourcing has long been considered as a major cost-saving driver for many IT operations. The Financial Services industry, including banks and other financial institutions, has used outsourcing to slash their overheads. Wealth management has not escaped this phenomenon.