June 7 event boasts outstanding speaker line-up, interactive discussions, and annual FSOkx Excellence Awards

Manalapan, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/16/2012 -- FSO Knowledge Xchange Hosts 6th Annual Financial Services Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Forum and Excellence Awards

June 7 event boasts outstanding speaker line-up, interactive discussions, and annual FSOkx Excellence Awards

Executives from ITG Investment Research, Hudson Valley Bank, UBS Wealth Management, Lord Abbett & Co., Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo Bank, BlackRock, Citi, AIG, GE Asset Management, and First New York Securities are among the distinguished speakers at FSO Knowledge Xchange's 6th Annual Financial Services Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Summit on June 7, 2012 at the Princeton Club of New York.

During the event, FSOkx will present the FSOkx Excellence Awards to recognize firms with outstanding performance in the following areas:

- Excellence in Risk Management and Compliance
- Excellence in Business Process Management
- Excellence in Performance Measurement
- Excellence in Data Management
- Outsourcing Deal of the Year in Financial Services

"Transformation and outsourcing initiatives enable financial firms to reduce costs and increase revenues, but IT and the business must work together," said Rekha Vatsa, FSOkx CEO and Co-founder. "We're excited to bring together technology and business executives from a wide variety of financial firms to share their insights and best practices for leading their firms through their transformation journey."

Topics covered during this one-day event include risk management, governance, technology, and business convergence, strategies for managing a multi-vendor environment, global sourcing, and the role of economics in financial services transformation.

To nominate a firm for the FSOkx Excellence Awards, please visit:

http://www.fsokx.com/Awards/Awards.aspx?atid=2&CT=AL

For complete event details and registration information, please visit:

http://www.fsokx.com/Event/EventArticles.aspx?evId=30

Registration is complimentary for delegates from the banking, insurance, and capital markets industries.

About FSO Knowledge Xchange
FSO Knowledge Xchange is a global research and information hub providing insights to the banking, insurance, and capital markets industry. Senior executives rely on FSOkx for timely and accurate information that supports strategic decision-making. In addition to daily news and commentary, executive interviews, market trends analysis, and weekly bulletins, FSOkx produces independent and client-driven research, webinars, forums, and networking events. For more information, please visit http://www.fsokx.com.

Contact Details:
Christina D'souza
Media Relations
FSO Knowledge Xchange
Phone: (732) 462-3763
-mail: cdsouza@FSOkx.com

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Manalapan, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/14/2011 -- Executives from banking, insurance and capital markets firms will explore the trends, technologies and the outsourcing strategies that are shaping today's financial services industry at FSO Knowledge Xchange's 5rd Annual Financial Services Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Summit on June 9, 2011 at the Union League Club, New York City.

During the event, FSOkx will present the FSOkx Excellence Awards to recognize those firms demonstrating outstanding performance in the following areas:

• Excellence in Risk Management Solutions
• Excellence in Business Process Management Solutions
• Outsourcing Deal of the Year in the Banking Industry
• Outsourcing Deal of the Year in the Asset and Wealth Management Industry
• Outsourcing Deal of the Year in the Insurance Industry

"Transformation and outsourcing initiatives can enable financial firms to reduce costs and increase revenues, but IT and the business must work together," said Rekha Vatsa, FSOkx Executive Director and Co-founder. "We're excited to bring together technology and business executives from a wide variety of financial firms to share their insights and best practices on how they are leading their firms through their transformation journey."

Topics covered during this one-day event include risk management, governance, technology and business convergence, strategies for managing a multi-vendor environment, global sourcing, and the role of economics in financial services transformation.
For further event information and registration details, please call FSOkx at 1-732-432-3763 or visit http://www.fsokx.com/fsokx/FSITOForumUSA2011/RegistrationCodes.aspx. Registration is complimentary for professionals from banking, insurance, and capital markets firms.

To nominate a firm for the FSOkx Excellence Awards, please visit http://www.fsokx.com/FSOkx/FSOkxAwards.aspx

About FSO Knowledge Xchange
FSO Knowledge Xchange is a global B2B media and research company providing insights to the banking, insurance, and capital markets industry. Senior executives rely on FSOkx for timely and accurate information that supports strategic decision-making. In addition to daily news, commentary executive interviews, market trends analysis, and weekly bulletins, FSOkx produces independent and client-driven research, webinars, forums, and networking events. For more information, please visit http://www.fsokx.com.

Contact Details:
Rekha Vatsa
Executive Director
FSO Knowledge Xchange
Phone: (732) 462-3763
E-mail rvatsa@FSOkx.com

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CHicago, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/03/2011 -- Unprecedented changes in the IT industry have emerged as a key to success for financial institutions. These organizations need to identify and manage technological challenges in order to drive and sustain innovation and growth. In order to answer these issues FSO Knowledge Exchange has organized the "Next Generation IT Strategies and Operating Models in the Financial Services Industry Forum", Conference & Expo.

The Event will be a one-day conference which will discuss IT strategies that management should consider for its company's growth. Latest Trends in Cloud Computing, Insights on Predictive Analytics, Mobile Commerce and RFID Technology will be the key areas of interest. The event will put together a holistic picture of industry trends on emerging technologies, along with panel discussions intended to further share knowledge on the subject.

When: March 10th, 2011

Where: The University Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Speakers: Leading Industry Analysts and Executives will grace the podium

Contact: To register please call at 1-732-462-3763 or alternatively can check out the event details at http://www.fsokx.com/fsokx/NGInFinancialServices2011/Introduction.aspx

About FSO Knowledge Xchange
FSO Knowledge Xchange is a global media and research organization, providing relevant and timely content pertaining to financial services domains. FSO Knowledge Xchange's web portal www.FSOkx.com features the latest news and views, events, case studies, white papers, analyst viewpoints, thought leadership articles and an extensive directory of financial services outsourcing firms and solution providers by domain and sub-domain categories. FSO's weekly e-newsletter and quarterly magazine provides authoritative, strategic, actionable insight and decision support to the financial services decision- makers within Operations, Technology, Risk Management, Compliance and Outsourcing domains.

FSO Knowledge Xchange, conducts targeted surveys to capture buyer pain points and needs, as well as publishes research papers to augment the knowledge of its industry wide member community of top level decision makers. Periodic webinars provide snapshots of surveys, along with an overview of market trends. Q&A sessions with executives, which are published through a range of media channels, provide opinions and cutting-edge insights while leveraging their specific area of expertise within the financial services industry. FSO Knowledge Xchange organizes market-leading networking events, focused forums, summits and conferences. These events and focused forums cover a wide range of topics with regard to financial services organizations for senior decision makers at exclusive locations around the world.

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The FSOkx 6 th Annual Asset Management Industry Outsourcing Forum held on December 8 th, 2010 at the Princeton club was a rousing success.

New York City, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/16/2010 -- Featuring a strong line-up of industry leaders as panelists, it attracted 195 registered attendees, overwhelmingly from buy side client firms. As is the consistent theme of FSOkx knowledge events, the agenda was packed with substantive information sharing and lively debate. The speakers and panelists --spearheaded by John Bottega, Arindam Mukhopadhyay, Christine Knott, Guy Fiumarelli, Sanjay Vatsa, Peter Spenser, Kevin Mahn, Joe Rossi, George Martinez, Paul F. Fahey, Denise Valentine and others---- provided valuable and timely insights on some of the most topical, 'hottest" issues for the Asset Management sector: the impact of the Dodd Frank Act, best practices in Risk Management and Data Governance.

There were also energetic discussions on next generation technology platforms and outsourcing models with participants offering high value management frameworks and examples of what worked and what was not successful with their own outsourcing initiatives. The event was also marked by the release of the FSOkx research and advisory calendar for 2011. In that context, FSOkx CEO Rekha Vatsa and Research Director, Dr. Shubhro Sen introduced an in-depth survey of Asset Management Outsourcing Trends. They shared some of the intriguing results from a similar survey of Asset managers from 2007-2009.

All FSOkx members and research subscribers are eligible to receive the results of these and other benchmarking surveys. In addition, all eligible industry participants who complete the 2010 survey will receive a copy of the results and survey report. If you are interested in receiving this valuable data, please contact Rekha Vatsa at research@fsokx.com.or call (732)-462-3763.

The upcoming FSOkx event is the Next Generation IT Strategies and Operating Models in Financial Services Industry: Conference and Expo which will be held in Mid March in Chicago, Illinois.

For more information on the event's agenda and speakers, please visit,
http://www.fsokx.com/fsokx/AssetManagementIndustryForum2010/Agenda.aspx

About FSO Knowledge Xchange
FSO Knowledge Xchange is a global media and research organization, providing relevant and timely content pertaining to financial services domains. FSO Knowledge Xchange's web portal www.FSOkx.com features the latest news and views, events, case studies, white papers, analyst viewpoints, thought leadership articles and an extensive directory of financial services outsourcing firms and solution providers by domain and sub-domain categories. FSO's weekly e-newsletter and quarterly magazine provides authoritative, strategic, actionable insight and decision support to the financial services decision- makers within Operations, Technology, Risk Management, Compliance and Outsourcing domains.

FSO Knowledge Xchange, conducts targeted surveys to capture buyer pain points and needs, as well as publishes research papers to augment the knowledge of its industry wide member community of top level decision makers. Periodic webinars provide snapshots of surveys, along with an overview of market trends. Q&A sessions with executives, which are published through a range of media channels, provide opinions and cutting-edge insights while leveraging their specific area of expertise within the financial services industry. FSO Knowledge Xchange organizes market-leading networking events, focused forums, summits and conferences. These events and focused forums cover a wide range of topics with regard to financial services organizations for senior decision makers at exclusive locations around the world.

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New York City, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/01/2010 -- FSOkx is receiving an overwhelming industry response for its forthcoming event, 6th Annual Asset Management Industry Outsourcing Forum to be held on December 8, 2010 at The Princeton Club of New York, New York. It will be a premier one-day event that will help asset managers eliminate inefficiency and effectively minimize operational costs while managing assets.

Senior executives from leading organizations such as Bank of America, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, Deloitte, ING Investment Management LLC, Merrill Lynch, UBS Global Asset Management, Wells Fargo and many more have already registered for the event.

Besides an opportunity to network with top industry professionals and decision makers, the Asset Management Industry Outsourcing Forum will offer an ideal platform for asset managers to gain insights and leverage expert perspectives on the most topical trends in the asset management landscape such as compliance, risk management, operations and technology innovation opportunities.

Kevin D. Mahn, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer from Hennion & Walsh will deliver the keynote address. Other insightful discussions will be led by financial services executives from Morgan Stanley, Citi Markets & Banking, Northern Trust, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, Cambrian Consulting, Freddie Mac and many more.

For complete event details and registration information, please visit,
http://www.fsokx.com/fsokx/AssetManagementIndustryForum2010/Introduction.aspx

About FSO Knowledge Xchange
FSO Knowledge Xchange is a global media and research organization, providing relevant and timely content pertaining to financial services domains. FSO Knowledge Xchange's web portal, www.FSOkx.com, features the latest news and views, events, case studies, white papers, analyst viewpoints, thought leadership articles and an extensive directory of financial services outsourcing firms and solution providers by domain and sub-domain categories. FSOs weekly e-newsletter and quarterly magazine provides authoritative, strategic, actionable insight and decision support to financial services decision makers within Operations, Technology, Risk Management, Compliance, HR, Finance and Accounting and Outsourcing domains. More….

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New York City, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/15/2010 -- FSO Knowledge Xchange announces the 6th Annual Asset Management Industry Outsourcing Forum on December 8, 2010 to be held at The Princeton Club of New York, New York. For the past six years FSOkx has been organizing a one-day event to update Financial Service executives with the latest trends in the Asset Management Industry, to help them better strategize their future endeavors. Event attendees will acquire workable insights on topics related to transparency, risk, technology, outsourcing, customer confidence and latest trends in a recovering economy of the Asset Management Industry.

Financial institutions majorly strive to eliminate inefficiency and optimize operational costs while effectively managing their assets. The FSOkx forum offers an ideal platform to discuss subjects related to the latest Asset Management Industry trends along with the opportunity for individual networking.

The attendees at the Event would include top notch executives from the Financial Service industry with speakers from institutions including Morgan Stanley, Citi Markets & Banking, Northern Trust, BNY Mellon Asset servicing, Hennion & Walsh ,Freddie Mac among others . The Executive Director of FSO Knowledge Xchange, Rekha Vatsa said, "the Asset Management Industry Outsourcing Forum will investigate and provide a deep understanding of the positives and negatives of emerging investment models, management strategies and latest technologies of the Industry".

For complete event details and registration information visit: http://www.fsokx.com/fsokx/AssetManagementIndustryForum2010/Introduction.aspx

About FSO Knowledge Xchange:
FSO Knowledge Xchange is a global media and research organization, providing relevant and timely content pertaining to financial services domains. FSO Knowledge Xchange's web portal www.FSOkx.com features the latest news and views, events, case studies, white papers, analyst viewpoints, thought leadership articles and an extensive directory of financial services outsourcing firms and solution providers by domain and sub-domain categories. FSO's weekly e-newsletter and quarterly magazine provides authoritative, strategic, actionable insight and decision support to the financial services decision- makers within Operations, Technology, Risk Management, Compliance and Outsourcing domains.

FSO Knowledge Xchange, conducts targeted surveys to capture buyer pain points and needs, as well as publishes research papers to augment the knowledge of its industry wide member community of top level decision makers. Periodic webinars provide snapshots of surveys, along with an overview of market trends. Q&A sessions with executives, which are published through a range of media channels, provide opinions and cutting-edge insights while leveraging their specific area of expertise within the financial services industry. FSO Knowledge Xchange organizes market-leading networking events, focused forums, summits and conferences. These events and focused forums cover a wide range of topics with regard to financial services organizations for senior decision makers at exclusive locations around the world.

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New York City, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/28/2010 -- FSO Knowledge Xchange (FSOkx), a global media and research organization, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Business Process Management and Technology Innovation Forum and Expo on October 7th, 2010 at Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. This well-attended and lively informative forum which included a variety of keynote addresses, enterprise case studies and panel discussions. Networking opportunities to engage key decision makers in the financial services industry with thought leaders were valuable and well-received.

Distinguished speakers from top organizations such as Wipro Technologies, Appian, Oakbrook Solutions, Citigroup, McKinsey & Company, IBM, Capital One, BNY Mellon, BNP Paribus, Capco, Webster Bank, PNC and more, sparked discussions around the most recent industry trends focused on technology, operations, performance measurement, transformation, strategy, re-engineering, risk and compliance. A record number of attendees from buy-side companies demonstrate the industrys appreciation for FSOkxs content and capability to bring together industry experts to this knowledge-sharing platform.

Session topics focused on the increasing need for Continuous Process Improvement and the significance of process-based operating models and BPM platforms. The discussion also covered industry perspectives on operational risk management, how financial services firms are strategizing their spending towards process re-engineering initiatives and much more.

The next FSO Knowledge Xchange event is the 6th Annual Asset Management Industry Outsourcing Forum, which will be held on December 8, 2010 in New York, NY.

For more information on the event agenda and speakers, please visit,
http://www.fsokx.com/FSOkx/AssetManagementIndustryForum2010/Agenda.aspx.

About FSOkx
FSO Knowledge Xchange is a global media and research organization, providing relevant and timely content pertaining to financial services domains. FSO Knowledge Xchange's web portal, www.FSOkx.com, features the latest news and views, events, case studies, white papers, analyst viewpoints, thought leadership articles and an extensive directory of financial services outsourcing firms and solution providers by domain and sub-domain categories. FSOs weekly e-newsletter and quarterly magazine provides authoritative, strategic, actionable insight and decision support to financial services decision makers within Operations, Technology, Risk Management, Compliance, HR, Finance and Accounting and Outsourcing domains.

FSO Knowledge Xchange, conducts targeted surveys to capture buyer pain points and needs, as well as publication of research papers to augment the knowledge of its industry wide member community of top level decision makers. Periodic webinars provide snapshots of surveys, along with an overview of market trends. Q&A sessions with executives, which are published through a range of media channels, provide opinions and cutting-edge insights while leveraging their specific area of expertise within the financial services industry. FSO Knowledge Xchange (http://www.FSOkx.com) organizes market-leading networking events, focused forums, summits and conferences. These events and focused forums cover a wide range of topics with regard to financial services organizations for senior decision makers at exclusive locations around the world.

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4th Annual Financial Services Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Forum Concludes Risk management, innovation, shared services, economic recovery among key topics

Manalapan, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/28/2010 -- FSO Knowledge Xchange (FSOkx), a global media and research organization, announced the successful completion of the 4th Annual Financial Services Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Forum held June 15th, 2010 at The Princeton Club in New York. This knowledge-sharing platform brought together senior decision makers from the banking, insurance, and capital markets industries.

The distinguished speakers included industry practioners, analysts, consultants, academics, and service providers from global industry players such as Wachovia, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, Deutsche Bank, Citi Markets & Banking, Deloitte Consulting LLP, New York University Stern School of Business, Canopach, and NelsonHall.

Daniel North, Chief Economist of Euler Hermes ACI, delivered the keynote address. Although North was optimistic about economic recovery and predicted GDP growth of 3 percent over the next few years, he warned that inflation is likely in 2011 and beyond and will significantly impact monetary and fiscal policy, consumer prices, interest rates, and deficits.

Steven Beard, President of event platinum sponsor Xchanging, described the benefits of shared services such as labor arbitrage, aggregation, process optimization, and services simplification. Value generation is attributable to maturity level of shared services within the organization, explained Beard.

Rekha Vatsa, FSOkx CEO, concluded the event by announcing the winners of the 2010 FSOkx Excellence Awards. For more information on the winners, please click: FSOkx Announces Winners of the 2010 FSOkx Excellence Awards II Press Release Hyperlink II

For more information on the event agenda and speakers, please visit http://fsokx.com/FSOkx/FSITOForum2010/Agenda.aspx

Podcasts of the event will be available on http://www.fsox.com.

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BNY Mellon, Investor Analytics, and iPipeline Honored for Outstanding Achievements in Financial Industry Transformation

Manalapan, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/23/2010 -- FSO Knowledge Xchange (FSOkx), a global media and research organization, announced the winners of the 2010 FSOkx Excellence Awards during its 4th Annual Financial Services Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Forum held in New York on June 15, 2010.

FSOkx presented awards in three categories:
• Outsourcing Deal of the Year Award: BNY Mellon (Boston, MA) for its partnership with a large investment bank.
• Excellence in Risk Management and Compliance Award: Investor Analytics (Berkeley Heights, NJ) for its portfolio and risk management services for the investment management industry.
• Technology Innovation in Financial Services Transformation Award: iPipeline (Exton, PA) for its on-demand sales distribution software for the insurance and financial services industry.

To select the winners from a highly competitive field of nominees, FSOkx and an independent panel of judges reviewed a variety of criteria, including client benefits and performance, market share, features/functions, level of innovation, uniqueness, sustainability, expansion strategies, and revenues.

Both winners and nominees showcased excellence in many areas that are levers for revenue growth and positive business outcomes, including cost reduction, increased transparency, efficiency, risk management and compliance, improved service quality, and new operating models.

The nominees were:
• Excellence in Risk Management and Compliance Award
1. SAS
2. Algorithmics
3. Investor Analytics (Winner)
4. Linedata Services
5. Thomson Reuters

• Technology Innovation in Financial Services Transformation Award
1. EMC
2. Fiserv
3. Citi Private Bank
4. iPipeline (Winner)
5. Computer Sciences Corporation

• Outsourcing Deal of the Year Award
1. BNY Mellon (Winner)
2. Fidelity National Information Services (FIS)
3. Computer Sciences Corporation
4. IBM Corporation
5. Atos Origin

"During an exceedingly challenging time for the financial services industry, BNY Mellon, Investor Analytics, and iPipeline continue to provide innovative and client-focused solutions to the market that are transforming our industry," remarked , FSOkx CEO. "My heartfelt congratulations to our winners and sincere thanks to all our nominees for demonstrating both the resilience and brilliance of the financial services industry."

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FSOkx, a unique media and research initiative, hosts various events that produces and promotes leading summits and conferences on all aspects of financial industry for senior decision makers at exclusive locations around the world.

New York City, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/10/2010 -- FSOkx recently hosted 2nd annual investment management industry event, "Investment Management Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Forum" on April 20th, 2010. FSOkx is pleased to announce the success of the event in spite of severe disruptions in Europe-bound flights due to volcanic ash.

The event comprised insightful sessions by investment management industry decision-makers that represented worldwide players such as BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, State Street Global Advisors, L&T Infotech, UBS and Investment Solutions Consultants LLP to name a few.

The discussions were aimed to unearth the current state of the investment management industry and future growth opportunities. The event turned out to be an outstanding knowledge platform to share industry viewpoints around next generation investment products and solutions including operational technologies. Institutional and retail investor challenges, investment research and analytics outsourcing, risk management, and transformations in middle and back office operations were some of the discussion areas that captured participant attention.

For more information on the event agenda, please visit
http://www.fsokx.com/FSOkx/IMITOSForumLondon2010/Agenda.aspx

Podcasts of the event will shortly be made available on the FSOkx website.

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