Rebuilding the Franchise: Technology and Tactics for a New Era in Financial Services
 
2010 TowerGroup/CEB Annual Conference & Exhibition
  Overview   Program   Keynotes   Agenda   Registration & Pricing   Venue   Exhibit & Sponsor   Supported By   Contact Us
 
Thank You to the 2010 Conference Exhibitors and Sponsors:
 
 
 


*Gold Sponsor
  
 

Adobe helps financial services institutions differentiate themselves and drive bottom-line results by more effectively engaging agents, brokers, customers and employees. Organizations can increase customer retention by delivering high-quality, personalized experiences across a variety of channels and devices. Our solutions also help increase efficiency, shorten customer response times, and improve profit margins by automating processes that need to integrate people and information, allowing them to eliminate bottlenecks and redundant activities, while also delivering rich user experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com/financial.
 
 

*Exhibitor: Booth #14

Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering video, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.

 

*Bronze Sponsor

AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company in the United States and around the world, with operating subsidiaries providing services under the AT&T brand. AT&T is a recognized world leader in providing IP-based communications services to businesses, and a US leader in providing wireless, high-speed Internet access, voice services and directory publishing and advertising services. AT&T delivers on-demand application performance through its globally consistent, highly secure, and intelligent network computing infrastructure. AT&T’s expertly managed solutions portfolio enables companies to connect people, information, and content around the world with increased speed and certainty.

*Exhibitor: Booth #6

Since 1999, Bonaire have developed and implemented software solutions for the global investment community. Bonaire’s REVPORT™ 8.0 is the premier Revenue Management and Fee Billing suite for asset managers, wealth managers, broker/dealers, mutual funds, custodians and banks/trusts. Covering a broad range of organizational sizes, our blue-chip client base includes 10 of the world’s top-20 money managers. Products include:
  • REVPORT™ - Fee billing platform
  • PAYPORT – Receivables and collections with payment matching
  • EXPENSEPORT - Fund expense budgeting & payments management
  • EMPOWER BI - Management Information
Bonaire is based in Boston, MA, and London, UK. For more information please visit www.bonairesoft.com.
  

  

*Registration Desk Sponsor
 
  
CashEdge is the leader in Intelligent Money Movement™ services providing innovative payment solutions to financial institutions for their retail and small business banking customers. CashEdge's services include mobile and online person-to-person (P2P) payments and small business payments. CashEdge currently serves hundreds of leading financial institutions, including seven of the ten largest banks in the country. CashEdge's industry leading products include Popmoney™ for person-to-person payments; OpenNow®/FundNow® for new account opening and funding; TransferNow® for Consumers, which includes Me-to-Me Transfers and Third Party Transfers; and TransferNow® for Small Businesses, which includes Invoicing, Me-to-Me Transfers, Employee Payments and Vendor Payments. For more information, visit www.cashedge.com.
 
 
 

*Exhibitor: Booth #12
 
 

CEDAR Document Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of technologies and services that enable a comprehensive, document-based, Customer Communication Platform. At CEDAR, “Technology is not about making things simple – it’s about enabling more complexity”. CEDAR's platform integrates with enterprise core systems to enable the complexity necessary to meet the requirements of regulators and customers for personally relevant communications and increased self-serve, distributed across multiple channels. CEDAR's approach is simple - From a single technology platform, deliver everything necessary to meet the evolving communication requirements of 21st Century Customers and the stakeholders that support them. CEDAR's Technology is not – From enterprise core system data, to highly scalable integrated services, for complex customer communications, delivered by e-mail, web, mobile, text, IVR, and traditional print/post. Since 1993, CEDAR has delivered integrated solutions to meet the communications challenges of many of the Fortune 500. 
   
    

*Bronze Sponsor
  
 

A leading IT and business process services provider, CGI has approximately 26,000 professionals operating in 100+ offices worldwide. CGI’s end-to-end banking capabilities facilitate the entire credit life cycle from originations through collections and recovery. Financial institutions around the world utilize CGI's banking services and solutions, including 24 of the top 25 banks in the Americas and 17 of the top 25 European banks, to build a more cost-efficient business, minimize risks, and provide consistent customer interactions across channels and functions.
 
   

*Bronze Sponsor

ClairMail is the leading provider of mobile solutions for banking, payment and card services. ClairMail delivers a technology platform designed to help financial institutions realize the strategic potential of mobile banking and payments, drive new levels of customer trust and loyalty, facilitate cross-sell opportunities and enable near-term, measurable cost savings. Financial institutions of all sizes can now reach 100% of their customer base and proactively deliver personalized content through multi-level alerting and triple-play convergence capabilities via a central customer interface. ClairMail's platform also offers multi-channel enrollment to maximize mobile adoption and ROI, regardless of mobile device, carrier or back-end system.

 

*Exhibitor: Booth #8

Founded in 1875 to provide solutions to financial institutions, Davis + Henderson is a leading provider of Credit Lifecycle Management solutions for the retail lending, small business lending, commercial lending and equipment finance industries.Using innovative technologies and solutions, Davis + Henderson works with industry leading clients in the United States and Canada to help them drive efficiency, improve business growth and increase their overall business profitability with practical solutions for immediate and sustainable results. For more information about Davis + Henderson’s comprehensive set of credit lifecycle management solutions, please visit: www.dhltd.com.
 
 





 
*Exhibitor: Booth #1
Dorado Corporation provides intelligent software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture to the financial services industry. The company offers on-demand solutions for managing and tracking complex integrations and data-intensive transactions. Dorado’s marquee ChannelMaster(TM) loan origination system enables FSIs to digitize, automate and centrally monitor the consumer lending process from lead through post-close. With the benefits of cloud computing – increased functionality with minimal capital costs, flexible configurations, rapid deployment and agile performance – Dorado’s customers also gain competitive advantage via workflow enhancements, better control over the product mix, and built-in compliance. FSIs using Dorado’s solutions include tier one banks, leading regional institutions, and rapidly growing entities in the U.S. and Canada. 
 
  

  

*Exhibitor: Booth #4
Dovenmuehle Mortgage is the largest and oldest subservicing company in the United States. Dovenmuehle subservices 350,000 residential and commercial mortgage loans for more than 250 financial institutions nationwide. Clients include banks, thrifts, credit unions, insurance companies, mortgage bankers and state and local housing finance agencies. Dovenmuehle provides private label subservicing with on-line access to all portfolio information, complete product and investor support and significant cost savings compared to servicing loans internally.  Dovenmuehle ensures full compliance with all federal, state and mortgage agency loan servicing requirements including collections and default administration. For more information, call David Allison at (847) 550-7550.
 
 

*Gold Sponsor

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in areas that impact and redefine their core businesses.  HCL focuses on ‘transformational outsourcing’, driven through innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO  in various industry verticals including financial services. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employee First’ which empowers our 62,000 transformers to create real value for customers. HCL is a $5 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. For more information, please visit www.hcl.in.
 
  

*Bronze Sponsor

Invest Hong Kong is the official government agency tasked with attracting and retaining foreign businesses in Hong Kong.  We provide a wide range of customized services free of charge, and they include guidance on the process of setting up the business, market and sector information, assistance with regulatory agencies, licensing, free publicity on the establishment of your business, recruiting office staff, networking opportunities directed towards potential clients, advice on work visas, and more as the business may require.
 
   

 
*Bronze Sponsor
Kony Solutions provides the mobile applications platform with Write Once, Run Everywhere technology that delivers mobile presence and commerce for consumer-facing enterprises. Delivering on the vision of one mobile platform, many mobile applications, multiple channels on all types of mobile devices, the Kony Mobile Application Platform uses a single-code base to develop mobile applications that run faster, smarter and with lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., the company also provides pre-built vertical applications, which are customizable and ready to be deployed, hosted, and managed via Kony 360 services. Visit www.konysolutions.com for more information.
 
 

*Exhibitor: Booth #18

Mark Logic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases. Mark Logic is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information, visit www.marklogic.com.

 

*Wi-Fi Sponsor
*Bronze Sponsor
 
  

The financial services industry is currently facing unprecedented challenges with economic uncertainty, mega-mergers, decreasing margins, global competition, and an increasing regulatory environment. However, history suggests that times of economic uncertainty also offer exceptional opportunities for financial services companies to look past near-term difficulties and plan strategically for the future. It’s more important than ever to understand and deepen customer relationships, while maintaining a path toward long-term profitability. Microsoft and its partners offer technology solutions that help financial services companies achieve a competitive edge by empowering people to turn data into insight, reduce costs through collaboration, transform ideas into action, and convert change into opportunity. These solutions are based on deep financial services expertise and provide the foundation for solving the most complex business challenges. At the same time, these solutions offer familiar and easy-to-use technology, which lowers training burdens, increases adoption,and produces improved results in overall efficiency and collaboration.
 
 

*Gold Sponsor
*Exhibitor: Booth #15
MphasiS is a leading Applications, Infrastructure, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services provider. The company delivers real improvement in business processes globally through a combination of technology knowhow, domain and process expertise. MphasiS brings to their clients a credible and experienced global leadership team driving service delivery through the next generation global delivery model. With currently over 35,000 people, MphasiS is recognized in the market place as a Financial Services, Technology and Business Process Services provider.

 


*Exhibitor: Booth #9

Pershing LLC (member FINRA, NYSE, SIPC) is a leading global provider of financial business solutions to more than 1,150 institutional and retail financial organizations and independent registered investment advisors. Located in 20 offices worldwide, Pershing and its affiliates are committed to providing dependable operational support, robust trading services, flexible technology, an expansive array of investment solutions, practice management programs and service excellence. Pershing is a member of every major U.S. securities exchange, and its international affiliates are members of the Deutsche Borse, the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. Pershing LLC is a BNY Mellon company. www.pershing.com.

  

*Exhibitor: Booth #11

Softtek is a global provider of IT and business process solutions (BPO) with close to 6,000 associates across 30 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Softtek provides value through reducing the complexity of IT services management, optimizing costs, complying with business regulations, and supporting the globalization of IT and BPO operations. Softtek delivers unique solutions for the financial services industry through its on-site, on-shore and trademarked Global Nearshore™ service delivery models, and operations from one or more of its nine delivery centers in Mexico, China, Brazil, Argentina and Spain. Creator and leader of the Near Shore® Industry, Softtek is the largest private service provider in Latin America. Visit www.softtek.com for more information.

 

*Bronze Sponsor
 

SoundBite Communications is a leading provider of on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communications solutions designed to transform the way organizations communicate throughout the customer lifecycle to build trusted, lifelong and profitable relationships. Clients can leverage SoundBite’s proactive customer communications offering and expertise in designing, executing and optimizing communications strategies to engage in relevant customer interactions that deliver long-term business value. Visit SoundBite.com for more information.

 
  



*Exhibitor: Booth #5
Sybase offers highly secure, high-availability software solutions that meet the trading industry’s needs for intensive transaction processing, advanced analytics and modeling. These solutions capitalize on cutting-edge technological advances, such as real-time risk analysis (Sybase RAP – The Trading Edition) and complex-event processing (Sybase CEP), to allow financial services firms to gain a competitive edge in capital markets. Today, Sybase customers include a number of the world's largest financial institutions. And every day, tens of millions of Wall Street trades run on Sybase technology. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com/fsi.
 
 

 
*Exhibitor: Booth #7
For more than 30 years, leaders in Banking, Card Services, Communications and Technology have been relying on SYKES to care for their most valued resource – their customers. It’s a job that requires focus, consistency and operational excellence, and is assured by SYKES's Science of Service®, making it a benchmark for customer care. That’s why 85 percent of SYKES's clients move more and more of their customer contact work to SYKES - for a better customer experience.
  
 

*Exhibitor: Booth #10
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions, and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery ModelTM, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. As part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 140,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 42 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $6 billion for the 2009 fiscal year. For more information, visit www.tcs.com.
 
 

*Silver Sponsor

 

Tellme lets people say what they want and get it. A Microsoft speech innovation, Tellme makes it easier to find information, connect with people, and enhance business processes. By combining Internet data with a powerful speech interface, Tellme's voice services platform improves automation and customer service performance for businesses across 2 billion+ calls every year. Visit www.tellme.com for more information.
  
 

*Gold Sponsor

Wipro Technologies (NYSE: WIT, www.wipro.com) is a leading global provider of consulting, IT Services, outsourced R&D, infrastructure outsourcing and business process services, delivering technology-driven business solutions that meet the strategic objectives of our clients. With over 25 years in the information technology business, Wipro is one of the pioneers in the remote delivery of services, and has constantly innovated to provide a comprehensive range of integrated services. Wipro has a dedicated business unit for our financial services clients to help them manage risk, comply with regulations, enhance product features, and manage transformational challenges while driving efficiency, cost savings, faster time-to-market and improved service levels. With over 10000 consultants, our Finance Solutions practice is currently servicing more than 90 large clients across the globe. Wipro has built proven capabilities in developing and implementing solutions for each of the Banking, Capital Markets, and Insurance industries. Wipro has experience working across the entire range of market participants in the financial industry. 
 
  

 

*Exhibitor: Booth #13
Zoot provides credit decisioning and loan origination solutions for large and innovative financial services institutions. Zoot offers its clients the flexibility to tailor their solutions to support their unique business strategies. This approach gives business users total control of rules, processes, and policies across the enterprise allowing for rapid changes as market conditions fluctuate. For nearly 20 years, Zoot has partnered with innovative lenders to move the industry forward through new approaches. Visit www.zootweb.com or call +1.406.556.7555 for more information.