The hedge fund industry has grown exponentially in the last decade and is now considered a part of the mainstream investment management arena. The recent financial markets meltdown has accentuated the need for streamlining the investment management processes along with the need to improve operational efficiency, across the trade life cycle.

It is a constant challenge for investment analytics professionals to produce accurate and meaningful investment analytics reports on fund performance. Investment analytics models, backed by technology support for complex calculations, have helped portfolio managers, performance analysts and risk managers to provide valuable insight into fund performance.

Fragmented approach to compliance and risk management has resulted in many firms to shift their focus towards integrated enterprise risk management instead of the traditional approach. The increasing dynamism and complexity of the modern business environment has put enterprise risk management high on the agenda of many companies, with the objective of earning higher return and the need to stay solvent in short and long terms.

Financial Services industry is very dynamic in nature and IT systems need to be very robust and flexible to handle changes not only statutory and regulatory in nature but also spikes in business demand. Testing the applications for both real time and offline risks, be it core banking testing or banking software testing or any other financial services related testing, is very critical to mitigate business losses at later stages. Independent QA services hence plays a vital role in defining the services road map and risk mitigation plans before the applications are finally rolled out in the market.

Business Process Outsourcing optimizes business performance to attain value creation. There has been a tremendous upsurge in the outsourcing industry in many developing countries, like India which aid in reducing costs and increasing service quality.

Since the start of the global economic crisis back in September 2008, many corporations have endured a number of challenges to meet committed top-line forecasts, maintain proper capital reserves, and invest in profitable growth strategies... Corporations that had high leverage ratios suffered the most as liquidity and working capital became a scarce resource.