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Virtusa Deepens its BFSI Testing Capabilities with Polaris Acquisition
Jul 08, 2016, by Dominique RaviartEarlier this year Virtusa acquired Polaris, now rebranded as VirtusaPolaris. Polaris was a mid-sized (~$300m revenue) ADM pure-play (it had spun off its Intellect software product unit in 2014) specializing in BFSI sectors (95% of revenues, NelsonHall estimate), in particular treasury and capital markets (~52% of revenues in Q4 FY 2016, the period ending March 31, 2016), corporate banking (~19%) a[...]
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Securities Services Vendors Face Strong Headwinds as Downward Revenue Pressure Set to Accelerate in 2015
Feb 05, 2015, by Andy EfstathiouQ4 2014 results from the top five U.S. headquartered securities services firms indicate that revenue growth for securities and custody services is slowing down. The two largest global custodians, BNY Mellon and State Street, along with Citibank, reported revenue decline in calendar year Q4 2014. The figures below show change in securities services revenue versus the prior quarter (q/q[...]
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LATAM CMS BPO Market: Next Big Wave Forms Around Higher-End Support
Dec 17, 2013, by NelsonHall AnalystLatin America has become an increasingly popular destination for the customer management services (CMS) BPO industry in recent years, outperforming the global CMS market. Will this continue? NelsonHall expects the global CMS BPO market to grow at 3.7% CAAGR through to 2016 with Latin America growing at more than twice that. So what is driving that growth? Much of the growth from this region is [...]
