swarmpoint

SwarmPoint LLC helps people run their businesses more effectively. SwarmPoint combines practical experience of operating business processes with a sound base of organizational and technical understanding. This combination causes implementable proactive actions to be proposed and effective structures and systems put in place allowing the organization to meet its goals. ... | More » |

NEW YORK

TECH Meetup

A monthly event where startups demo to New York's tech community (technologists, investors, entrepreneurs etc) ... | More » |

Web 2.0 Meetup

NextWeb meets once per month to view and discuss the latest Internet technology, including Web 2.0, Social Networking, ... | More » |

STANDARDS

MDA

Model Driven Architecture

These specifications will lead the industry towards interoperable, reusable, portable software components and data models based on standard models. ... | More » |

FpML

Financial Products Markup Language

rich XML format for the communication of SWAP trades for execution, valuation, settlement and reporting. ... | More » |

REDUCE COSTS

Reduce costs and benefit from transitions

After mergers, acquisitions and restructurings we help you maximize the savings and benefits through effective understanding of business functions, operational processes and systems.

PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Business Process Management (BPM) through Process Mapping is a management technique which looks at business activities as a series of processes handling items of work. In understanding business activities as a series of processes it becomes possible to ... | More » |

INDUSTRY VERTICALS

SwarmPoint's consultancy services server the following industry verticals:

Capital Markets

Prime Brokerage
Hedge Funds
Equity Markets
Fixed Income
Asset Management

Functions

Securities lending
Order management
Execution systems
Swaps and other derivatives
Client reporting
Payment systems
Cash management

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SWARMPOINT BLOG

Regulation of Financial Services

Finance

After any serious hurt there is a call for immediate action in the political sphere. People look to politicians to protect them, and politicians are happy to encourage the notion. This rush to action overlooks the fact that even the management of the investment banks hadn't understood the situation in time to avert their own losses. They are all very capable, highly functioning individuals but wer ... | More » |

Consumer spending is continuing to shift to eCommerce

US eCommerce for Q4 2008 was down by 4.9%, as compared to Q4' 07, according to the Department of Commerce or 3.5% according to comScore. The comScore number excludes the significant online travel sector. Q1-Q3 had shown consistent growth (11%, 13% and 6%) leaving the year as a whole with a 6% growth for non travel and 9% for travel. Travel makes up 28% of consumer online sales. The fact that ... | More » |

Cloud Computing Space

A map of players in the cloud computing space here. ... | More » |

ORGANIZATIONS

BiPM

A rich set of resources

BiPM operate a bulletin board with a number of resources for anybody involved with Business Intelligence or Performance Management tools and practices ... | More » |

ASBC

The American Small Business Coallition

With emphasis on the growth and development of small companies, our mission is to provide Government and Industry with a trusted collaborative resource by which productive business relationships are formed resulting in quality engagements that contribute to the successful achievement of the mission goals and objectives of the agencies of the United States Government. ... | More » |

PROJECT TYPES

STRATEGY

Strategy Review
Roadmaps
Product Strategy
Strategy Workshops

PERFORMANCE

Business process mapping and metrics
Business intelligence and dashboards
Project management and audits
System documentation and assessment

CHANGE

Transition Planning

Acquisition and restructuring,
Legacy replacement,
Vendor reselection

Outsourcing assessment and governance
Proposals which quantify business benefits
Enterprise vendor or major system selection
Due dilligence for acquisition or investment
Business process integration