Mar 16, 2016, by Andy Efstathiou
Financial institutions are seeking to deepen their operational capital in order to drive down cost of operations, increasing fixed cost and reducing variable cost (non-linear cost reduction). Here we look at two examples of how institutions are achieving this by partnering with third party operations vendors.
Capital Markets Client with Broadridge
In this example, Broadridge is providing a p[...]
Mar 14, 2016, by John Willmott
The utilities sector is an important one for HCL. The company has worked with ~100 utilities and currently has 25 active utilities clients, with its utilities revenue primarily from the U.S., U.K., and Australia.
To focus further on this sector, HCL has enhanced its capability to offer end-to-end and BPaaS-based services through a number of partnerships and is now going to market targeting[...]
Feb 11, 2016, by Andy Efstathiou
Much has been written about FinTech in banking. However, the focus has been on functionality enablement and consumer experience, with little insight into what the limits of FinTech benefits might be (and how that would shape an implementation strategy) or how banks can enable a roadmap that drives process improvement. Here I address both of these questions.
What are the reasonable goals of FinT[...]
Oct 14, 2015, by Andy Efstathiou
The most important development in U.S. banking BPS in the last five years has just been announced (it may still not pass the U.S. Congress, but this analyst believes that too much pressure will be applied by industry for Congress to block it).
The announcement is that the signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have reached an agreement on the terms of the trade agreement and will no[...]
Oct 14, 2015, by Andy Efstathiou
NelsonHall has just published a market assessment on Analytics and Reporting (A&R) BPS in banking and capital markets (BFS). This is an emerging BPS market with few significant competitors, and adoption from only a few institutions who are tier 1 banks in mature markets. There are many vendors of point A&R solutions, but no standard or dominant vendor has emerged to manage the process valu[...]
Sep 17, 2015, by John Willmott
HCL began its robotics program in late 2013. Since then HCL has invested ~$1.5m in robotics, (ToscanaBot Automation Framework), via its HCL ToscanaBot center of excellence, which currently employs a team of ~25 personnel and is planned to grow to 50+ personnel by 2016. HCL estimates that its robotics practice currently has an FTE impact of around 2,000 with this expected to grow to ~8,000 FTE impa[...]
Jul 16, 2015, by John Willmott
In 2012 Genpact was starting to get behind the curve. Many of its competitors had caught up with the need for process framework methodologies and it was struggling to combine its IT assets with its business process services business. In addition, despite its focus on process excellence, Genpact sometimes lacked depth of domain expertise with the result that its execution was variable across accoun[...]
Jul 14, 2015, by Andy Efstathiou
I recently attended Genpact’s industry analyst and advisor conference, at which the vendor described its approach to success in a time of rapid change for enterprise operations delivery. It believes that most enterprises are ‘cemented’ in the wrong place due to challenges with legacy processes underpinned by legacy technology, and that enterprises unable to adapt quickly will die[...]
May 13, 2015, by Andy Efstathiou
Today’s capital markets industry is severely capital constrained, and this is likely to get worse over the next few years. Internal deployments of new or improved solutions will become harder to resource (both in terms of cash and manpower), and managed services will be the preferred way to improve operations. Furthermore, managed services that offer to improve process and/or vendor manageme[...]
Apr 28, 2015, by Andy Efstathiou
Capgemini announced today its intention to acquire IGATE. Capgemini is offering $48 per share, or $4.04bn, a premium of ~5% over current IGATE share price. IGATE had debt at end 2014 of $686m and cash on hand of $192m. This offer gives IGATE an enterprise value of ~$4.53bn. Capgemini is thus paying a massive 15.5 x 2014 earnings ($292m) and nearly 3.6 x 2014 revenues.
The acquisition [...]
Mar 26, 2015, by Andy Efstathiou
Banks have been struggling to adapt to changing, expensive regulations, and 2015 and 2016 will see further implementation requirements requiring large investments to achieve compliance. Here is a review of some of the more important ones and a look at the implications for bank operations strategy.
Key regulations taking effect over the coming months are:
EMV (Chip-based payment cards) for[...]
Feb 05, 2015, by NelsonHall Analyst
By Amy Gurchensky, Liz Rennie and Gary Bragar
With total HRO service growth in the high single digits in 2014, service providers are growing both organically and inorganically to meet clients’ needs. The primary reasons for M&A and partnerships across HRO service lines were to enhance service delivery capability (60%) and support geographic expansion (40%). Here we take a closer look [...]
Feb 05, 2015, by Andy Efstathiou
Q4 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[...]
Jan 19, 2015, by Gary Bragar
By Amy Gurchensky, Liz Rennie, Gary Bragar
2014 was a busy year for HRO with ~60 partnerships, mergers and acquisitions combined. We now take a look at what to expect in 2015 and beyond for each HRO service line, including service offerings, market developments, and growth.
MPHRO driven by continued shift to cloud-based platforms
The Multi-Process HRO (MPHRO) market will grow with a mi[...]
Nov 06, 2014, by John Willmott
This blog is the first of seven in a series looking at six disruptive forces and their implications for BPO. Some of these are widely talked about, others less so. This first blog sets the scene and looks at the impact of robotics. Subsequent blogs will consider the implications of:
Analytics becoming all-pervasive and increasingly predictive
Labor arbitrage is dead – long live l[...]
Jan 29, 2014, by NelsonHall Analyst
Earlier this month Capita confirmed that it had won back the London congestion charging contract from IBM. The contract with TfL is for £145m for five years starting from November 2015, with an additional five-year extension option. The scope of the new contract has expanded to include traffic enforcement notice processing for penalty charge notices for bus lane and yellow box junc[...]
Jan 09, 2014, by NelsonHall Analyst
NelsonHall recently attended a briefing by the Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG) about the new Crown Commercial Service (CCS). This has replaced Government Procurement Service (GPS) and is to become the most comprehensive government procurement services provider in Europe. It is to address the market in a more coherent fashion by organizing into domains and segments but operating as[...]
Dec 17, 2013, by Gary Bragar
Per NelsonHall’s blog of December 12, 2013 was a healthy year for HRO, with overall contract activity up ~37%. We now take a look at what we can expect in 2014 by HRO service line.
MPHRO
We predict the Global MPHRO market will grow at mid-single digits CAAGR through 2017
The Shared Service Transformation segment will continue to grow mainly as a result of contract expansions and ren[...]