The Finance vertical has always been an imperative part of the business. It is interesting to note that this important vertical has undergone considerable evolvement in the last few decades. Not only has the finance division evolved in terms of...

Fundamental changes have swept through the IT outsourcing market. Technology is today the central piece of any business strategy. But an outsourcing partner should act as more than just a technology provider. Service providers now need to wear...

The business of wealth management has gone through enormous changes over the last 20 years, and technology has played a major role in helping to keep up with those changes. For ex­ample, there have been various models of wealth...

In my opinion, an organization’s topline is driven by sales and marketing activities; however, the bottom line depends on effectiveness of finan­cial planning. Financial consulting is often mis­read as audit consulting, accounting,...

In a traditional insurance systems project, companies spent significant time and resources acquiring software and hardware, installing the system, customizing the platform to fit their needs, building interfaces with third party providers, and...

India is one the world’s largest, greatest and most advanced societies, and yet it is also one of the largest unbanked and underbanked countries in the world. Most of India’s population doesn’t have a bank account, nor have they...

Financial Reforms: Disruptive But Shackled with Bottlenecks A recent report by the Ministry of Finance throws light on why financial innovations often get stalled in India. As per the report, ‘Indian regulators are disproportionately...

While the arrival of mobile phones in the mid-1990s’ increased India’s tele density exponentially, with the advent of smartphones, a new kind of revolution is underway. Thanks to Mobile Applications – or Apps – a mobile...

In the last few years, global business environ­ment have undergone rapid changes, quite consistently. An environment where volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are the new buzzwords and also new realities, the businesses are...

We feel that acceptance of biometrics- the application of statistical analysis to biological data is going to change the way we transact today. In the Indian context, the potential of biometrics-based transactions is immense. There is a huge...