Awesome website for papers,case-studies etc.

Social Science Research Network

http://papers.ssrn.com

Enjoy

Investment Banks in India

The following list is prepared for informational purposes only. I hope to help people in India who want to work for Investment Banks. Most of the investment banks within India are headquartered in Mumbai. For a complete list of locations and other details, I suggest you to go through the company websites.


Enarr Capital

324, A to Z Estate,
Ganpatrao Kadam Marg,
Lower Parel, Mumbai- 400 013
Phone: 91-22-4035 8585
Email: admin@enarr.com
Website: www.enarr.com

O3 Capital

#3, Lavelle Road,
Bangalore-560001
Phone:+91 80 4112 9000
Email: bangalore@o3capital.com
Website: www.o3capital.com

Mape Advisory

MAPE Advisory Group Pvt. Ltd.
#211, Prestige Center Point
Cunningham Road,
Bangalore - 560 052
Phone: 91 80 22351650 / 51 / 52
Email: jacob@mapegroup.com
Website:www.mapegroup.com

India Advisory Partners

2nd Floor, Moti Mahal
J. Tata Road, Churchgate
Mumbai 400 020
Phone: +91 22 2287 6900
Email: kait@iapib.com, sridars@iapib.com
Website:www.iapib.com

YEN Consultants

93, Bajaj Bhawan
Nariman Point
Mumbai – 400 021
Phone: 91-22-32525967 / 65270361 / 32685602
Email: sandip.basu@yencon.com, sunil.shirole@yencon.com
Website:www.yenconsultants.com

IceStartups

Mr. Shankar C. Rele
9, Shankar Bhavan,
French Bridge,
Near Opera House,
Mumbai - 400 007
Phone:+91-98200 92870,+91-22-2368 6760
Email: shankarrele@icestartups.com
Website:www.icestartups.com

Singhi Advisors

903 Raheja Center,
Nariman Point
Mumbai-400023
Phone: +91 22 6634 6666
Website:www.singhi.com

Please have a look at the below link as well:
http://business.mapsofindia.com/investment-industry/top-10-investment-banks.html

Total Revenues: Treasury Management Vendors

Corporate Treasury and Cash Management

"Source:Celent Communications"

Asia Risk Technology Survey 2008

Thomson-Reuters tops the list in every category! This is not much of a surprise but being a leader in every category is certainly a big achievement. Murex was the leader in most categories last year. The survey details are avialable at this link

http://about.reuters.com/productinfo/risk/material/ReutersRiskNews_AsiaRiskTechnologySurvey2008.pdf

SWIFT in brief

The acronym stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications. S.W.I.F.T. is a co-operative society.
S.W.I.F.T. was formed when seven Major International Banks met in 1974 to discuss the limitations of Telex as a means of secure delivery of payment and confirmation information, primarily in the Treasury and Correspondent banking areas. Telex suffered from a number of limitations due to its speed, its free format, and the lack of security
The decision was taken at that time to form the society and three years later in 1977, 230 banks in 5 countries went live. New countries and users were added subsequently.

S.W.I.F.T. services

S.W.I.F.T. operates a number of services, primarily:
GPA: General Purpose Application, which only allows system messages, i.e.. messages from a user to S.W.I.F.T. and vice versa, not from one user to another
FIN: Financial Application, which is the user to user service comprising, System Messages MT0nn, User to User Messages MT1nn through 9nn and Service Messages such as Acknowledgements
Additionally, S.W.I.F.T. also provides a number of services that are charged for over and above the normal fees

Equity Index Futures Spread Trading

Spread trading has been around for ages. However the equity index spread is becoming popular only recently. Though many hedge funds use this in their strategies, it has not been a product of interest to speculators. It is a well-known fact that the equity markets of the world are correlated to a certain degree. You may see Nikkei225 drop 5% in the morning and you immediately sense it’s a bad day for the Indian market as well. You may see the DAX futures drop by 3% and you sense it is a bad day for the American markets as well.

Spread trading is beneficial in cases where you fail to have a directional sense on the market. You can have a spread between two equity index futures, which care correlated to a greater extent. If you are interested in Indian markets, you can create a spread between sensex and nifty futures. That means you need to initiate a short position in one contract and long position in another. However the number of lots in both contracts could be different. Since I am more familiar with the US equity markets, I will use the index futures of US in my examples from now on. The S&P500 and Dow futures are correlated to a large extent. This is because of the fact that all the Dow 30 stocks are also in S&P500 and also they constitute a major part of S&P500 index. You can use 5 contracts of S&P500 and 6 contracts of Dow in your trading to achieve dollar neutrality. The Spread trading of S&P500 and Dow is explained clearly on the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) website.

The other use of spread trading is to trade during the announcement of important figures. There might be news, which affects the American markets more than the European markets. Depending on this you can create a spread between an American equity index futures contact and a European equity index futures contract. This has not yielded profits all the time. Spread trading can sometimes give more loss than outrights. There is a possibility that you may suffer from loss on both legs. This usually happens when you hold your positions for a long time.


Trade responsibly. Futures trading might not be suitable for every one.

Cheers,
Njoy.