Finxpress: Beyond Towering Heights
Finxpress: Beyond Towering Heights
Finxpress: Beyond Towering Heights
FinXpress
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JULY 31, 2011
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Greetings IMT
Survival of the Finest - Survivor 3
To tell you the truth being in IMT-G for over a month now, I have seen quite a lot of events and lots of innovative strategies for marketing and creating participation for an event, by far Survivor 3 was the more unique of all, the pure gameplay and conceptualization of the event was original. Let me sum up Survivor 3 by using a Hindi clich Zara Hatke. Survivor 3 was organized as a two day event; the first round was completely online and involved solving picture puzzles and deciphering clues from within the puzzles. The first round was named Kryptex- Screw You, the name suggested something, a challenge to solve the clues and advance as many levels as possible. The round was held for a 12 hour window and teams competed to cross as many levels as they could. This ice breaker event turned out to be very popular as teams spent a sleepless night racking their heads on cryptic messages. One of the teams astonishingly passed all the 40 levels and earned a direct entry into the final round. The enthusiasm of the participants was heartening but only the top 15 teams could go through to the second round. This was held in the greatest of all arenas in IMT-G, lovingly called the Amphi by all. A General Knowledge quiz was held with the top 5 teams going into the showpiece event of Survivor 3, the Checkered Masquerade. The Checkered Masquerade was again a strategy based game; a game of live chess with people moving on a life-sized chess board. You could choose between pawn, bishop, knight, queen and rook with movements akin to that of a chess board, but there was a catch you could only get your choice if you answered the question that ensued correctly. Regardless of the permutations and combinations of chess you needed a Sherlock Holmes like agile mind to survive in this event. Although the event stretched on for a bit longer than anticipated a well-played game of chess was all we were looking for. Curse boxes and Initiative spots were added as the game progressed as well as the regular tie-breakers to hurry the exit of teams. The eventual winners Abhishek and Ankit knew that they had just survived by one move. All in all it had to be said that Survivor 3 was a well thought-out event, carrying on the legacy of Survivor 2 and we are looking forward to all the other events FinNiche has in store for us in the future. The event netted a participation of 95 people that is the highest for any intra B-school event at IMT-G. I will take your leave with the tag line of FinNiches Survivor 3 Outcast or get Outlasted.
Team FinNiche
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Company in Focus :
JP MorganA financial leader
About the Company J.P. Morgan is a global financial services firm, offering solutions to clients in more than 100 countries. It has been helping its clients to do business and manage their wealth for more than 200 years. Under its J.P Morgan and Chase brands it serves millions of customers in the United States and prominent institutional, government and commercial clients. The firm operates in financial services for consumers, asset management, private equity, financial transaction processing and small business and commercial banking. By fostering a culture that stresses the highest ethical standards in support of clients, it has risen to be one of the worlds most trusted and respected financial services institutions. Year 2010 On the financial front JP Morgan posted a record earnings of $ 17 billion in the year 2010, up by 48% from the previous year. JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) has assets of $ 2.1 trillion and, with operations in around 60 countries worldwide. In the year 2010 they have raised $1.6 trillion for businesses and consumers. They became the largest Small Business Administration Lender in the United States by doubling loan volume from 2009. $ 250 million went to small businesses looking for loans via their second review process. Their outreach counseling helped many homeowners to avoid foreclosure and they dedicated $ 3 billion to housing developments that are affordable for people in need. By supporting NPOs and public services JP Morgan raised $ 100 billion for places like schools and hospitals, also the funds went to help communities. $ 190 million were given to grants and sponsorships to NPOs. Effect of Recession The return on tangible equity, which measures how effectively a company is gaining profit based on their equity, was only 15%. Ideally this figure should be higher but the companys big losses on the mortgage market and mortgage related markets are still having an effect. Indeed, the company is consequently suffering losses annually of $ 4 billion a year after tax in this market area. In a normal environment JP Morgan would be expected to be earning from $ 22 billion to $ 24 billion a year. Recovery The company is of course helping to aid the economic recovery following global recession and has helped to hire 8000 in the United States alone, gaining market share by opening branches and offices and by hiring more bankers across the globe. In its latest venture JP Morgan and chase along with Bank Of America and Wells and Fargo have formed a venture to enable customers to move funds using a mobile number or email address. Overall JP Morgan has continued to put emphasis on its human talents for weathering the future ahead. It has a employee base of 240,000. JP Morgan has been investing in its organic growth throughout the period of 2010. It has also been focused as much as possible on helping to build quality businesses.
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StartUp in Focus :
AdoRoi Marketing
The greatest challenge for any producer, trader or service provider is to sell his product or service. Marketing is a mix of all those activities which make a consumer buy your product or service. With increasing competition, there is much more need to trim cost, so the job of a marketing manager becomes all the more difficult. He needs to justify his marketing spends. When designing a marketing budget the first thing that comes to mind is how much can I earn by incurring the cost? I.e. the ROI or returns, which constitutes the basic premise of the budget. The next is the choice of media. Innovation and technology has provided innumerable media choices, the decision of choosing an ideal media also becomes complex in the absence of proper performance measurement tools. There is always a quest for innovative and efficient new tools that can enrich the customer engagement and provide more promising methods of converting leads into customers. This is where they come in. AdoRoi Marketing Science, which merges the benefit of online and offline media and equips the marketer with a precise performance measuring tool. Who Are they? Pioneers in providing innovative solutions for performance measurement of Advertisement across media. What do they do? They have various tools which generates, distribute, track and nurture leads in real time. How they do it? AdoRoiDesk is a web based desktop application which is provided as SAAS application for your sales, marketing, dealers and channel partner networks. Who uses/requires their solution? Their solution will help Brand managers/media planers/sales and marketing heads to effectively manage their ad spend and generate higher ROI across media i.e. print, TV, radio, and online & mobile. AdoRoi is a solution to advertisers for measuring the ROI of all media types on a single platform which makes the performance of conventional ads comparable to performance of online ads in real time. While doing so it provides very effective lead distribution system to shorten the sales cycle using the current sales network. AdoRoi uses MobileWeb Convergence platform, using dynamic web data compaction, optimization and simultaneous delivery of geo-consumer centric data over multi-modal platforms such as Mobile SMS, IVR , DTH, USSD, GPRS-WEB, etc. AdoRoi is a complete end2end C2B2B marketing solution. AdoRoi can be used across several industries by the sales and marketing heads to optimize marketing spends at the same time generate higher ROI across media. Their product besides immensely benefiting the sales and marketing department also offers benefits throughout your organization and beyond. Key features include Ad-tracking Engine AdoRoi Multichannel Ad-tracking Engine is product that helps you effectively link performance to advertising for TV, radio, print, outdoors and online distribution channels Lead Nurturing AdoRoi lead nurturing platform helps you to capture, distribute, track and nurture leads effectively leading to lower costs, higher conversions and increased ROI.... An innovative product of NetPrice Services Private Limited it has been founded by S.P.Jain FMB Alumnus & SYB Batch01 participant Mitesh L Thakker with a dedicated team of people at 2 Locations (Mumbai & Chennai).
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The Indian rupee rose by 28 paise to a nearly three-year high of Rs. 43.90 this week. It was also found that the currencies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan (yen) have been rising against the USD. The reason for this is the inefficiency of the U.S in managing debts and sustained dollar selling by exporters and some banks. The result is that the funds are expected to rise due to higher interest rates as compared with the U.S.
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board. Anshu Jain becomes the first non-European to head up Deutsche Bank. He will actually run the bank, while Jurgen Fitschen, who handles DB's German operations will handle the political and corporate schmoozing. Anshu Jain's appointment as Deutsche Bank's co-CEO ends the boundary debate. To be based in Frankfurt, Jain will run trading operations in London and New York and set long-term strategy. Jain is expected to shake up the status quo by imposing a performance driven culture in the staid German banking sector.
With market regulator Sebi changing the rules of the take over game, corporate predators could find it easier to target hundreds of companies. The minimum holding requirement to
teleservices (TTSL) operates CDMA under the brand Tata Indicom and GSM under the Tata Docomo brand. Four regional heads will be in charge of the unified structure which will in turn have between them 15 mobility business units. Although this restructuring may improve efficiencies, it could end up making the job positions redundant. It is estimated that atleast 8000 job positions will be culled by the end of the year.
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India moved up 3 notches from eight to fifth in 2009, thanks partly to the sustained 9%-plus growth in the years preceding the global financial crises that saw countrys share in global GDP rise to 5.4% in 2010 from 4.6% in 2000.
Tour operator Cox & Kings has entered into an agreement to acquire London Stock Exchangelisted education & activity travel group Holidaybreak for around 312 million in an all cash transaction. Cox & Kings has
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) outlined several measures including online verification and clearance of the name of the company being incorporated, online submission of statutory forms, and issuing digital certificates of incorporation. The simplified process of online incorporation of companies will
The commission had envisaged the private sector to contribute only 19% of new capacities at the beginning of the 11th Plan, but revised the figure to 30% in 2010. It now expects the private sector to contribute most of the 60% of the new capacities in the 12th Plan (2012-17).
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Solve it Now!
Set A
Match the punchline
1)Tata group 2)Reliance Industries 3)Apollo Hospitals 4)BHEL 5)Amway a)Brightening lives powering projects b)Better ideas better life c)Improving the quality of life d)Growth of Life e)Rotterdam
Set C
Fill in the blank in this Nike ad
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