NEW YORK (Nov. 1, 2010) - The Global Sourcing Forum+Expo (GSFE), the premier conference and thought leadership forum covering various facets of outsourcing and globalization will be held in New York Nov 11 – 12. Peter Nag, managing director of Financial Services at Insigma US will speak at the forum. 

Mr. Nag is a senior executive in investment banking with over 20 years of experience advising banks on their global operating models. “Expanding the Sourcing Frontier: Leveraging Knowledge Services in a Global Organization” is Mr. Nag’s keynote topic at GSFE (http://gsfe.outsource-world.com/ConferenceAtGlance.aspx#8). He will discuss moving up the value chain (how to source, manage and deliver knowledge services remotely), aligning with strategy, control, IP and regulatory considerations, as well as vendor consolidation trends in Knowledge Process Outsourcing sector. 

About Peter Nag
Peter Nag, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services at Insigma US, is a senior executive in investment banking with over 20 years of experience effecting transformation across divisions and geographies in the financial services sector. Peter brings extensive relationships and deep operational knowledge to form profitable alliances at the CXO level. An expert in program management, business process reengineering, resource optimization, KPO/BPO/ITO, expense management and business continuity, Peter works across geographies including India, China, Singapore, Australia, EMEA and Latin America. At Citigroup and Lehman Brothers, he led teams that set up global hubs across business divisions and spearheaded some of the largest business transformation and outsourcing deals. Peter chairs forums representing the financial services sector in consortiums, conferences, and investor calls worldwide. He holds an MBA and graduate degrees in management and engineering from Wharton/Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and Rensselaer (RPI), Troy, New York.

HANGZHOU (Nov 3, 2009) – The global financial crises has sped up the worldwide transfer of financial services outsourcing and provided rare opportunities for China’s development in the financial services industry. On October 19, the annual International Conference on Information Technology for Financial Services (ICITFS), jointly hosted by the Hangzhou government, Zhejiang University, State Street and Insigma Technology, took place at Zhejiang University. Guili Tong, the Deputy Mayor of Hangzhou, attended the conference and made opening remarks. 

Attending the event were more than 40 senior officers and experts of dozens of well-known international financial services and IT enterprises including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Symantec and Schooner and Broadridge. The experts came together to deliberate commercial and technological strategies for China’s financial outsourcing industry development and building an international financial service center in the tide of global industrial restructuring and financial services transfer. 

Maureen Miskovic, chief risk officer of STT, delivered the keynote speech on the risk control and management in American financial market. STT’s chief information officer, Christopher Perretta, showed STT Global Center’s successful model of best practice jointly developed by Hangzhou and Boston teams. Tianxi Wang, IBM’s Vice President of Greater China, John R. Busch, president and CEO of Schooner, and Bob Frankston, known as the father of the electronic spreadsheet, introduced the latest developments and advances in financial and IT fields such as cloud computing strategy. 

The forum also invited senior experts and scholars from the financial circle including Zaiyue Xu, vice president of China Foreign Exchange Center, Yu Li, executive dean of Shanghai Finance University International Finance Institute, and Dapeng Li, CTO of SHFE, to discuss the potential and policy trend of development of China’s financial services industry.

NEW YORK (Dec 1, 2009) – Insigma will be one of the sponsors of the Waters USA 2009 event on December 7. Waters USA 2009 is the industry forum in which CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT managers of leading investment and commercial banks, asset management firms, hedge funds and other financial institutions share ideas on how to meet the challenges presented by the heightened emphasis on technology in the financial banking arena.

Specifically, this event will focus on how leading financial firms are employing the latest technologies to enhance their efficiency and cut their operating costs, while developing bespoke products to improve customer service.

http://web.incisive-events.com/fit/2009/12/waters-usa/index.html

NEW YORK (Jan. 14, 2010) – The Global Services Conference 2010 for services buyers and global service providers, will be held January 28 – 29 in New Jersey. Peter Nag, managing director and head of Financial Services, Insigma US, is a featured speaker at the conference. 

Mr. Nag’s presentation, “Smart Sourcing to China,” will explain how global sourcing has gone mainstream and the value proposition has moved from cost arbitrage to innovation. “Although India continues to be the leader, China is a fast follower and now a part of every firm’s strategy to diversify their location footprint. Insigma with its joint venture with State Street, deep domain knowledge and successful implementation of the ‘hybrid model,’ provides a unique value proposition to firms looking to take their global sourcing initiative to the next level,” stated Mr. Nag. He will also share insights from his experience in successfully leading globalization initiatives in major investment banks and how to drive innovation. 

 http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/events/gsc2010/

About the Global Services Conference 2010
The Global Services Conference 2010 focuses on changes, learnings and best practices in the global services model. It will define the changes that are permanent, outline the phases that may be transitory, and paint a vivid picture of what would shape the future.

About Peter Nag
Peter Nag, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services at Insigma US, is a senior executive in investment banking with over 20 years of experience effecting transformation across divisions and geographies in the financial services sector. Peter brings extensive relationships and deep operational knowledge to form profitable alliances at the CXO level. An expert in program management, business process reengineering, resource optimization, KPO/BPO/ITO, expense management and business continuity, Peter works across geographies including India, China, Singapore, Australia, EMEA and Latin America. At Citigroup and Lehman Brothers, he led teams that set up global hubs across business divisions and spearheaded some of the largest business transformation and outsourcing deals. Peter chairs forums representing the financial services sector in consortiums, conferences, and investor calls worldwide. He holds an MBA and graduate degrees in management and engineering from Wharton/Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and Rensselaer (RPI), Troy, New York.