Research and Analytics

HCL has a vast experience of professionals involved in delivering technology and operations services in research and analytics space across equities, fixed income, FX, securitized products and indices. Our technology solutions cover all aspects of research, including content management, analytics, pricing and portfolio analysis. Content management solutions include solutions for research report authoring, workflow management, subscription management, distribution and research portals. The analytics applications include solutions for quantitative index calculations, modeling and forecasting techniques.

Service Offerings

• Technology solutions across research value chain spanning data gathering, analysis and modeling, authoring, review and distribution of research
• Technology solution for developing and maintaining research portals
• Technology solutions across the analytics space, including index creation, index valuation and maintenance and quantitative analysis techniques

Highlights

• Experience in development and maintenance of solutions across the research value chain; from report authoring, through workflow management, subscription management, to distribution of research products. This is supplemented by InvesIT^TM, an HCL product, which is a comprehensive suite for the entire research process, starting from authoring, till distribution
• Expertise in analytics, developing and maintaining applications of different levels of complexity. Some include valuation models for automation of stock selection and enhance portfolio management, index calculation and maintenance based on different underlying instruments including bonds, swaps, commodities, FRA, MBS, equities and ABS
• Center of Excellence in the area of enterprise content management which has expertise in using various products like Documentum, File Net

Case Studies

• Reduced Time to Market of research products and Improved research efficiency by developing Global Research Content Management system for a global investment bank
• Improved stock selection & enhanced portfolio management for a leading financial services provider by building a web enabled cash flow based valuation system
• Development of an End to End Research portal that resulted in a Robust search engine to retrieve documents on critical criteria