Celent Securities & Investments Newsletter, November 2010

23 November 2010

New York, NY, USA

From the Senior Vice President

I wanted to share a couple of important announcements. We recently welcomed two new analysts to our team: Analyst Alexander Camargo, who is based in New York, and Senior Analyst Phillip Silitschanu, based in our Boston office. We are proud to have these additions to our Securities & Investments team.

At Celent, we're bringing new tools to help our clients make informed technology decisions. As a refinement to our ABCD Vendor View research, we've introduced the XCelent Awards, which you can see an example of in our recent report, Client Reporting Tools, by Isabella Fonseca and Alexander Camargo.

Please contact Nick Bockh at nbockh@celent.com or +46.8.650.4401 if you have any questions about the XCelent Awards or if you would like to schedule an introductory call with one of our new analysts.

Best regards,

Mayiz Habbal, PhD
Securities & Investments Group

Celent Launches XCelent Awards

Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting firm, announces the launch of its new ABCD Vendor View and XCelent Awards honoring vendor excellence.

Celent's XCelent Awards will help financial institutions and technology providers stay abreast of industry trends by evaluating the shifting vendor marketplace and awarding technology best practices. Celent's ABCD Vendor View presents a comparative view that visually represents at a glance the relative positions of each vendor in four dimensions: Advanced technology, Breadth of functionality, Customer base, and Depth of client services. The XCelent Awards will honor top performing vendors in each of the four letter categories:

XCelent Technology for the A dvanced Technology score
XCelent Functionality for the Breadth of Functionality score
XCelent Customer Base for the Customer Base score
XCelent Service for the Depth of Service score

The full press release is available here.

Chart of the Month

From the Celent report Electonic Trading in Asia-Pacific: A Market by Market Update on the Dynamic Region

Celent Published Reports

Structural Changes in the European Asset Management Industry: The Rise of the Multi-Boutique Model

Client Reporting Tools

UCITS IV: Implications for the Asset Management Industry in Europe

Wealth Management in Asia: The Road to Recovery

Electronic Trading in Asia-Pacific: A Market by Market Update on the Dynamic Region

Technology in an Uncertain FX World

Assessing Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Derivatives Markets

Benchmarking Indian Banks: Size, Growth, Efficiency, and Risk Management