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Wall Street & Technology January 11, 2007	Leading Fund Administrators Are Building Out Their Fund Administration Services A rising number of hedge funds and fund managers to outsource middle- and back-office functions, thus allowing investment managers to focus on what they do best: turn profits for clients.
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2005 Phil Britt	Walk Before You Run First Magnus Financial's use of Trinity Partners' outsourcing services helps the bank improve lending operations by outsourcing back-office processes.
Bank Systems & Technology August 1, 2007 Nancy Feig	New Rules for Bank Outsourcing and Offshoring New deal models and business imperatives, as well as opportunities in emerging markets, are inspiring banks to reevaluate the types of outsourcing and offshoring arrangements they make.
U.S. Banker August 2008 Jim Bolton	The Strategic Case for Outsourcing Back-Office Chores It's more critical than ever that banking executives weigh further efficiencies and fresh initiatives to retain and attract customers. This is where business process outsourcing increasingly enters the picture.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Paul Allen	Many Firms Lack the Processing Infrastructure to Support Growth in Alternative Investments On Wall Street, the great demand for sources of alpha have fueled innovation in instrument development and front-office trading strategies, but automation challenges and data management problems must be addressed.
FAO Today Nov/Dec 2007 Russ Banham	Let's Give 'em Something to Cluck About WNS takes Church's Chicken's F&A offshore all the way, with results that make the restaurant retailer crow.
Wall Street & Technology December 28, 2009 Michael Lobosco	Evaluating Outsourcing Options The technology and capabilities of outsourced portfolio management systems offer functionality that is comparable to their installed counterparts. But not all outsourced solutions are created equal.
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2005 Leslie Kramer	CIO Challenge: Business Process Outsourcing As Wall Street firms reevaluate their core competencies, once-strategic business processes are now being outsourced. But deciding which processes to outsource and managing the provider relationship remain critical to success.
Bank Technology News December 2004 Jeremy Quittner	A Reversal of Fortune? What may look like a reversal of fortune for providers of outsourcing services in financial services, appears to be something of an anomaly.
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2010 Chris Costanzo	Making the Most Out of Trust Of all the processing functions that a bank performs, trust seems most ideally suited for outsourcing.
FAO Today Mar/Apr 2008 Russ Banham	Scaling New Heights Accenture's contract with BT Group lets finance and accounting outsourcing take a real seat at the strategy table -- perhaps for the first time.
Wall Street & Technology October 25, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	BPO Draws Broader Appeal Faced with ever-increasing pressure to cut costs, more investment firms are tapping business process outsourcing.
Entrepreneur July 2010 Ivy Hughes	Outsourcing: Not Just Cheaper From processing payroll to integrating IT, outsourcing certain functions can mean better talent at lower costs.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Anthony Guerra	WestLB Securities Inc. Looks to Outsource Back-Office Functions Without Giving Up Self-Clearing Status ADP will assume responsibility for WestLB Securities' back-office functions, such as clearing and custody, while allowing the firm to maintain self-clearing capability.
CIO June 13, 2011 Stephanie Overby	No. 1 Gripe with Outsourcers: Lousy Service An outsourcing survey finds CIOs need to improve vendor management.
Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Paul Allen	Hedge Fund Services Heat Up "In my view, prime brokers and [hedge] fund administrators will increasingly find themselves competing in the same space in terms of the services they can offer," says Rob Schultz, head of HSBC's alternative fund services for North America.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2008 Ginsburg & Noorlander	Investigating Outsourcing and Offshoring Research For 15 years, there have been discussions on whether or not to outsource research. You would think the issue would be resolved by now, but today we have more questions than answers.
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CIO September 1, 2005 Stephanie Overby	Backsourcing Pain JPMorgan Chase's decision to first outsource IT and then bring it back in-house stands as a cautionary tale for any CIO considering an outsourcing megadeal.
Global Services November 5, 2007 Singh & Puryear	Beyond Single Site, Single Provider As companies measure their offshore presence, they grapple with two large challenges. First, the increasing imbalance between workforce supply and demand, and second, where to site their offshore activities.
Investment Advisor July 2007 James J. Green	To Market! To Market! Ron Fiske of Pershing likes to get there quickly. Pershing is the largest clearing firm in the business, but the range of products and services it offers to all its customers goes far beyond the quotidian routine of settling trades.
Insurance & Technology December 6, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurance Outsourcing Reaches New Levels of Maturity While many insurers are still struggling with the management of offshore resources, industry leaders are crafting long-term global sourcing strategies for strategic competitive advantage.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2006	Outsourcing's Next Steps When it's best not to chase cheap labor.
Bank Technology News June 2007 Geeta Sankappanavar	Financial Services Outsourcing: Not If, But When BPO companies now offer a way to achieve the cost and quality advantages of strategic global outsourcing without the risks of losing control of the operation and without the investment costs of setting up their own offshore centers.
Bank Technology News May 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Lessons from the Dark Side How financial services firms can avoid mistakes in overseas outsourcing.
Food Processing January 2009 Dave Fusaro	Collective Wisdom on Outsourcing Our joint survey on contracting-out production, R&D and other functions finds a lot of mixed feelings.
CIO November 14, 2012 Stephanie Overby	IT Services Get Closer to Home IT chiefs find that domestic outsourcing (as opposed to offshoring) is becoming more attractive as it delivers advantages such as agility, speed and innovation
CFO March 1, 2011 Janet Kersnar	Outsourcing Matures, Slowly To make outsourcing deals succeed, CFOs still need to ask plenty of questions -- and demand more flexibility in contracts.
Global Services October 31, 2007 Rinku Tyagi	Hedging With Technology Today hedge funds use technology as a prime tool for portfolio management. While this opens up opportunities for the sourcing of IT services, it is not easy to find providers that have an understanding of capital markets.
U.S. Banker June 2007 Lee Conrad	Weighing Customization Against 'Bank-in-a-Box' Solutions The ability to customize IT platforms could help small banks differentiate themselves, but they must be careful not to bite off more than they can chew. Partial outsourcing may do the trick.
Bank Systems & Technology March 10, 2004 Katherine Burger	Off Base on Offshore? I've covered the financial technology industry long enough to remember when outsourcing used to be called third-party processing, service bureau, or facilities management.
CFO May 1, 2007 Randy Myers	Going Away The doubts that finance executives once had about offshoring are quickly disappearing as savings and process improvements become too good to pass up.
CRM February 2, 2004 Ginger Conlon	The Great Outsourcing Debate The debate has its own benefit, that of providing information and opinion on both sides that could help companies decide what's right.
Global Services March 10, 2008 Puryear & Sinha	Look Before You Leap Into Offshoring Jumping into the pool of offshoring without analyzing the actual need for doing so can negatively affect an organization. Sometimes digging deeper and going beyond the confines of offshoring can yield better and more cost-effective results
CFO November 17, 2003 Polly Schneider Traylor	Outsourcing More work is being sent packing, often far away. To make it pay off, management must adapt.
Global Services December 2, 2008 Imrana Khan	What'll the New Year Bring for Outsourcers? Outsourcing will continue to be a lever for transformation. Adding business value will become the norm. Services providers will be pressed to drive business transformation that creates sustainable value for their customers
CFO March 1, 2008 Kate O'Sullivan	Offshoring Spreads Its Wings From East Asia to Eastern Europe, offshore outsourcing is taking off.
Wall Street & Technology June 18, 2008 Penny Crosman	Wall Street Outsourcing to New, Exotic Corners of the Globe While India still rules the world of IT offshoring, China, the Philippines, Romania, Poland, Hungary, South Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia and even Iceland are starting to attract bigger pieces of Wall Street's IT action.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Paul Allen	Reference Data to Go? In signing up for Accenture's Managed Reference Data Services (MRDS), Wachovia joins a handful of firms opting to outsource reference data operations. But reference data outsourcing does have drawbacks.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010	Knowledge-Based Outsourcing: Driving Deeper Insights Outsourcing is fairly commonplace in the world of pharma. Tracking, monitoring, and trend evaluation is not enough. Companies must now do more than assess what happened and why.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2006 Michael Leibert	Bank of New York's Growing Pains The firm's transition to a securities processing and custody bank hurt the bottom line. The third quarter also saw a seasonal slowdown in trading volumes and market volatility. Investors, take note.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006	Hybrid Outsourcing Amid shrinking margins and increasing volume, brokerages must upgrade their core back-office clearing and settlement systems to handle the growth in alternative investments such as derivatives, according to a recent report.
FAO Today Mar/Apr 2008 Lisa Ross	Department Procurement: Try Adding Procurement By outsourcing finance & accounting and procurement together, you can fan the flames of powerful synergies that will go straight to the bottom line -- while helping to improve operations.
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Insurance & Technology August 30, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurers Expand Views On What Can Be Sourced Externally Economic pressures, evolving technology and increasing comfort with partner management are combining to force insurance executives to expand their views of what can be sourced externally.
FAO Today Nov/Dec 2007 Ross & Madden	New Dynamics Emerging In the Mid-market FAO Landscape Outsourcing companies are increasingly seeking new business opportunities in what is called the "mid-market."
Global Services May 8, 2007 Imrana Khan	Compliance Inhibits F&A Outsourcing A recent study finds that the increasing compliance burden of financial execs is the biggest obstacle to finance and accounting outsourcing.