GlobeOp Financial Services has opened a third office in Mumbai, India. GlobeOp provides financial technology, middle- and back-office administration and risk reporting services to hedge funds and asset management firms.
GlobeOp is the largest hedge fund administrator in India: more than 900 of the company’s 1,500 employees worldwide are based in the country, as are three of the company’s eight offices.
The new 42,900 sq. ft. software development and hedge fund administrative support facility can seat an additional 650 employees, and increases total GlobeOp office space in Mumbai to 96,010 sq. ft.
“Our India team and operations have played a key role in GlobeOp’s growth to-date and are a central element of our long-term strategy and ability to serve customers better,” says Hans Hufschmid, the chairman and CEO of GlobeOp. “We opened our first GlobeOp facility in Mumbai in 2003 with 20 employees. Since then, we’ve continuously made significant investments here in people and infrastructure. It is part of our dual strategy of ambitious growth and providing our clients, through our resources on three continents, with the flexibility to operate ‘virtual’ offices and manage funds from anywhere in the world. The steady growth in client demand in terms of volume and diversity of services provided by our India facilities in these past three years reflects positively on the expertise and dedication of our highly skilled, financially experienced professionals.”
“In three years, we have grown to become the largest team in GlobeOp’s international network,” adds Nandini Sankar Piparaiya, the chief operating officer and president of GlobeOp’s India operations. “We have also differentiated ourselves from the more basic back office and business processing companies located in India by playing a key role in GlobeOp’s business continuity and product innovation strategy. In addition to being unique in the hedge fund sector in India, our product development and financial services are designed for global hedge funds that rank among the most complex clients in the financial sector. Today approximately 70% of our 200 product development professionals worldwide are based in India. Several of the new portfolio tracking, reconciliation, valuation and performance products GlobeOp is bringing to market by the end of this year have been completely developed and strenuously field-tested here in India.”