Headstrong Hosting Trading Platforms Focused Webinar to Address Challenges and Inefficiencies Associated with Off the Counter (OTC) Trade Lifecycle Processing

Reston, VA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 03, 2011

Headstrong, the leading global IT consultancy specializing in capital markets, is conducting a webinar focused on Trading Platforms. Aimed at confronting the inherent challenges of OTC Trade Lifecycle processing, The webinar “Trading Platforms – Build vs. Buy,” will discuss its processing inefficiencies, infrastructure and communication bottlenecks, risk management and counterparty exposures. The webinar will also highlight the need for integrated solutions which can handle the end-to-end process, valuation and risk management in the OTC Derivatives market.
In addition to the above mentioned issues, the webinar will focus on the:

   •      Challenges in the processing of OTC Derivatives in the constantly changing market
   •     Pros and cons of building an in-house system, versus acquiring and customizing off-the-shelf systems from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

Where:    You can register for the webinar by clicking here or visiting Headstrong’s website – http://www.headstrong.com and clicking on the Media, and then the Events tabs.

When:        Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 11:00 am -12:00 pm EST

Who (Speakers):     Neeraj Gupta, Global Head- Trading Platform, Headstrong
Nerraj leads the global pre-sales and delivery of the trading platforms business at Headstrong and holds 17 years of experience. In this capacity, he is responsible for delivery and pre-sales of projects and programs, in managed services mode, around platforms including Summit, Kondor+, Sophis, Fidessa and others.

Rajeev Jain, Practice Lead, Headstrong
Rajeev is responsible for program executions in consulting, technology and operations space. He possesses 14 years of experience in Capital Markets and investment banking IT and more than 6 years of experience in program execution on the Calypso Trading Platform.

Amit Chauhan, Practice Lead, Headstrong
As Practice Lead for the Summit Trading Platform at Headstrong, Amit is responsible for managing Summit-based projects in consulting and technology areas for various investment banks across the globe. Amit has 11 years of experience spanning over a wide range of functions including Trade capture, market and static data, risk management functions across the exchange and OTC derivatives.

About Headstrong
Headstrong is a global consulting and IT services company with a specialized focus in financial services. With three decades of domain expertise, Headstrong is the world’s leading offshore outsourcing company for the capital markets and securities industry.

Headstrong delivers targeted domain solutions and a full complement of services, from strategy and business consulting to technology and operations, using multi-shore resources and global project management tools, methods and standards. Headstrong maintains operations in seven countries, including offshore centers in India and Manila, with more than 3,500 employees globally.

“Headstrong” is a registered trademark of Headstrong Corporation in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

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