Books I read recently

1. Done Deals (Venture Capitalists Tell their stories.
2. Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
3. The Big Short by Michael Lewis (He introduces Scion Capital and Burry who is my inspiration these days and I keep working hard to find undervalued stocks. I feel it is worth the effort to track down undervalued stocks. But they take a lot of patience in giving the returns)

Shorex forum in Singapore

Professional Event Coordination (The Wiley Event Management Series)Hello All you wealth managers or fund managers who are interested in a great Wealth management forum in Singapore on April 28th and 29th 2009. For more details visit

http://www.shorexsingapore.com/

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