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For the best in financial sector technology
25 March 2010, Lancaster London Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, London


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Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, is a global leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with the world's most connected IP network to deliver award-winning communications,
IT, information security and network solutions.We securely connect today's extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers, partners, suppliers
and employees - enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency and help preserve the environment.

Many of the world's largest businesses and governments - including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational institutions - rely on our professional and managed services and network technologies to accelerate their business. Find out more at www.verizonbusiness.com/uk


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Banks and brokers operate in one of the most competitive and highly regulated business environments of any industry. Not only are organisations within this industry subject to intense global competition, but also they are always vying to carve out impenetrable niches of business and consumer products and services.

Agility, speed, determination, accountability, and dependability are frequently the chief success factors by which they are measured. There is little room for error in executing strategies aimed at striking the perfect balance between achieving goals of revenue growth, customer retention, and improved service levels with the mandates of shareholder accountability and regulatory compliance. Therefore, a sound approach to content management is essential for organisations looking to thrive in the dynamic and volatile financial services market.

With Open Text solutions, financial service providers can rapidly deploy content-centric business solutions that increase efficiencies, improve customer service levels, mitigate risk, accelerate product development cycles, streamline deal-related processes, and generate competitive advantage.


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In a world of giant generalists and niche specialists, FIS offers the best of both – the breadth of products and depth of knowledge to overcome any challenge, and the scale and focus to handle the most complex projects with expertise and outstanding customer service. As the world’s number one technology provider to the financial industry, we offer local sensibility on a global scale.

FIS provides best-in-class technology solutions to 40 of the top 50 global banks. We are a market leader in most major categories of financial information services, including card and core processing, loyalty, electronic bill payment, and many others.

The thing that really sets FIS apart: our people – a 30,000 strong team around the world whose collective drive and customer service mentality means that we never settle for second best for ourselves and our clients.

FIS. Never Compromise.

For more information about any of our products and services, visit www.fisglobal.com


As part of EMC Corporation, the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions, EMC Consulting provides strategic guidance and technology expertise to help organizations exploit information to its maximum potential. With worldwide expertise across organizations’ business, applications and infrastructure, as well as deep industry understanding, EMC Consulting guides and delivers revolutionary thinking to help clients realize their ambitions in an information economy. EMC Consulting drives execution for its clients, including more than half of the Global Fortune 500 companies, to transform information into actionable strategies and tangible business results. More information about EMC Consulting can be found at www.EMC.com/consulting


Established in 1985, CyberTech is the worldwide leading manufacturer of voice recording solutions that are FSA regulatory compliant and conform to PCI DSS.

The company’s dominant position in the Financial Services recording and Compliance sector has been achieved - and is constantly strengthened - by working closely with our customers, with the aim to provide resilient solutions that meet and exceed their specific requirements. With the customer always in mind, CyberTech supports every implementation with consistently high quality of service round the clock and in all corners of the world.

CyberTech’s solid performance has been winning the trust of many national and international financial institutions of all sizes that now depend daily on CyberTech to meet their increasingly challenging communication recording needs.

www.cybertech-int.co.uk


About Ricoh UK

Ricoh is a global document solutions company at the forefront of print innovation. As the UK's leading provider of office and production print solutions, we help organisations to maximise the effectiveness of their communications.

Our managed print services help companies to achieve greater efficiency from their print procurement strategy by equipping IT directors and CIOs with the ability to control and manage a document strategy that meets risk management, sustainability and cost reduction objectives.

Bespoke software or legacy systems can be integrated to help optimise a fleet and our commitment to neutralising our carbon footprint means our clients' document strategy will have a minimal environmental impact.

To find out more visit www.ricoh.co.uk


BT in Financial Services


BT’s users include the world’s largest banks, brokers, insurance companies, investment managers and exchanges throughout over 170 countries.  It delivers communications-based services that address the needs of organisations across the wholesale, corporate and retail banking, financial markets, insurance and payments sectors to increase their operational efficiency and agility and to help to improve customer service. 

BT enables the largest, secure networked financial community in the world to carry out its business reliably and fast, using integrated voice, data and video to communicate within and between thousands of institutions and access applications from hundreds of providers internationally.

to find out view www.bt.com/gbfm


VocaLink is a specialist payments partner to banks, their corporate customers and government departments.

We design and deliver smarter domestic and international automated payments systems, and smarter ATM switching solutions.  

Our switching platform connects over 60,000 ATMs, the world’s busiest network, while our payments platform processes over 500 million payments per month.
 
Having pioneered electronic payments for over 40 years many major organisations have come to rely on our services.   

Our Real-time Payments Platform is the central infrastructure for the UK’s Faster Payments Service, whilst we’ve partnered with BGC, Sweden’s leading payments provider, who now outsource the majority of Sweden’s domestic payments to us.

We are proud of our service delivery record.
  Our platforms operate on never-fail technology to
ensure total reliability and availability 24 hours a day allowing us to meet our customer needs.  

In short, our smarter payments capabilities offer reach throughout SEPA and beyond.


Thinksoft Global Services Ltd. is a specialist in Financial Software Testing with offices in several major financial capitals of the world. Thinksoft is India's only listed co. (NSE/BSE) which specialises in helping Global Financial sector firms to significantly improve the quality of their applications, software and systems. Our revenues have been growing at a CAGR of 49% in the last 5 years and we have been ranked among Deloitte TechFast500 Asiapac for 3 years in a row: 2006, 2007 and 2008. Our clients are situated in 23 countries across the globe which includes global financial organisations, Fortune 500 banks and major insurance companies.

Thinksoft is only into Software testing and that too exclusively for financial organisations across the world. This helps the clients to:

  • Realize Business Ready software implementations
  • Benefit from Best practices in Structured Testing
  • Save on Software Product Life Cycle Costs
  • Achieve Faster Time to Market

Thinksoft covers the entire gamut of 'Assurance-covering 'Requirements Services', 'Testing' and User support. Thinksoft sets up and manages the 'Global Testing Centers of Excellence' for several of its clients by leveraging its Offshore test centres in Chennai (India). For more information contact us at info@thinksoftglobal.com


URL: www.thinksoftglobal.com


About DataFlux
DataFlux enables business agility and IT efficiency by providing innovative data management technology and services that transform data into a strategic asset. A wholly owned subsidiary of SAS (www.sas.com), DataFlux helps organisations manage critical aspects of data through unified technologies and expertise that provide the benefits of data quality, data integration and master data management (MDM). To learn more visit www.dataflux.com.

DataFlux and all other DataFlux Corporation LLC product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of, or licensed to, DataFlux Corporation LLC in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other
brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.


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The National Outsourcing Association is the UK’s only outsourcing trade body. Advocating best practice, the NOA represents outsourcing end users, such as financial institutions, vendors and other companies which support outsourcing, such as legal firms, and consultancies. The vast quantity of information that the NOA has collected, referred to as the BOOK (the Body Of Outsourcing Knowledge), is delivered to outsourcing professionals through a number of channels including educational events, research papers, the sourcingfocus.com community portal and the NOA’s dedicated professional training courses.


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(ISC)²® is the globally recognized Gold Standard for certifying information security professionals. (ISC)² has certified over 65,000 information security professionals in 135 countries. Based in Palm Harbor, Florida, USA, with offices in Washington, D.C., London, Hong Kong and Tokyo, (ISC)² issues the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP® ) and related concentrations, Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLPCM), Certification and Accreditation Professional (CAP®), and Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP®) credentials to those meeting necessary competency requirements. (ISC)² certifications are among the first information technology credentials to meet the stringent requirements of ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard 17024, a global benchmark for assessing and certifying personnel. For more information, www.isc2.org

 


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About Software AG
Software AG is the world’s largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on our solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services – achieving new levels of business flexibility.
Our leading product portfolio includes solutions for high performance data management, developing and modernizing applications, enabling service-oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining our technology with industry expertise and best practices experience, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses – faster.

Software AG has 40 years of global IT experience and over 3,500 employees serving customers in 70 countries.
Software AG – Get There Faster

 

 


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About Red Vista

Red Vista & Powercube form part of the Mavin Group, which has been established to provide cohesion between our brands. Red Vista, Powercube & Professional Evolution.

As individual companies our brands are widely recognizable within their specific areas of expertise and have become renowned for achieving high levels of professional excellence through technology innovation, bespoke delivery models and proactive customer relations.

Many clients choose to encompass combined services, solutions and skill sets from across the group.  Our ability to work closely with clients as a single team, supporting the same important core values and proactive, efficient nature throughout, transcends the more common and in-flexible engagement models often associated with complex ICT infrastructure projects.  A Co operative approach if you like.

The Mavin Groups strategic objective of leveraging a key differential by “raising the bar” for deliverable standards within the business-to-business market place, has seen record growth within Commercial, Defense and Public sectors alike.

www.mavingroup.co.uk

 


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