What's New

Acquisition of Z/Yen Limited

Z/Yen Limited is a leading provider of market intelligence to the Financial Services industry. Z/Yen Limited provides market intelligence to help organizations make better choices. Investment banks, investment managers and industry suppliers have all benefited from making more informed choices supported by market intelligence and advice supplied by Z/Yen Limited. Z/Yen Limited can assist in decision making processes through the application of benchmarking, market data analysis, and market research.

Z/Yen Limited has a unique insight into the performance of operations and IT groups in all aspects of financial services. Z/Yen Limited's staff are experienced operations and IT professionals and understand how both quantitative and qualitative information gathering can be used to support decision making and therefore improve performance, retain clients, maintain control and increase bottom line profit.

Since 2000, Z/Yen Limited's work in Financial Services has enabled the development of a unique and highly detailed database of operational cost and performance data derived from 30 major banks and 200 investment managers.

The Z/Yen Cost per Trade and the Z/Yen Operational Performance Benchmark have become the industry standard.

In 2006, Z/Yen Limited undertook the following cross-market projects:
Cost per Trade Benchmarking (CPT), European Securities, US Securities, Global FX & Money Markets, Global OTC Derivatives, Operational Performance of Brokers (OPB), Securities – European Clients, Securities – US Clients, Securities – Asian Clients, OTC Derivatives – Global Clients, Foreign Exchange – Global Clients, Listed Derivatives – Global Clients, Investment Manager Operational Performance, Best Practice Settlement & Custody Fees, Corporate Actions, Brokerage Costs
For more information on Z/Yen, visit www.zyen.com or call Jeremy Smith on +44 20 7562 9562.

New studies

Australia - Commercial Real Estate Survey
The McLagan Partners Commercial Real Estate Survey will provide a complete overview of compensation practices within the commercial real estate sector in Australia. McLagan Partners also runs the survey in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan.

US - Private Client Quarterly Financial Benchmark Report
The Private Client Quarterly Financial Benchmark Report provides compensation managers and financial officers at private banks and brokerage firms with quarterly compensation and performance trend updates. This trend data provides up-to-date feedback on industry performance as well as compensation funding so that firms can calibrate appropriate compensation funding levels and set business performance goals.

US - Benefits Survey
McLagan Partners’ Benefits Survey provides the most current market intelligence on benefits plan design and competitive cost data for the financial services industry. The survey provides key market benchmark data related to: prevalence of plan type and policies, elements of plan design, cost of individual benefit programs as a percentage of payroll, employee contribution costs and copays, employee participation rates and employer contribution rates.

US - Consumer, Retail and Small Business Banking Compensation Survey Program
This is unique, integrated compensation and productivity study has been designed to provide detailed information regarding competitive pay levels and practices in the Consumer and Small Business Banking sectors. With coverage of Retail Banking, Auto Finance, Education Lending, Home Equity Finance, and Small Business Banking, this comprehensive survey program contains three components including Compensation Levels Benchmarking, Market Pay Practices, and a Productivity Analysis.

US - Correspondent Banking/Warehouse Lending Compensation Survey Program
The Correspondent Banking/Warehouse Lending survey program covers management and professional staff, in the Correspondent division of a Commercial Bank and the Warehouse Lending division of a Mortgage Bank, focused on lending to a financial institution customers. The results from this survey are reported in three distinct sections based on the type of firm: Commercial Banks (Correspondent), Mortgage Banks (Warehouse Lending) and Commercial and Mortgage Banks combined.

UK - Credit Card 2007
The Credit Card Survey is a comprehensive survey programme designed to capture year-to-year changes in compensation practices and track specialisations that support key functions within the UK credit card industry. With expanded participation in 2007, this survey focuses on front and middle office functions including Sales & Relationship Management, Customer Marketing, Decision Science, Risk Management, and multiple unique Operations Centre roles. The complete survey programme consists of compensation level benchmarking and industry pay practices.

Aircraft Finance Compensation Survey Program
McLagan's Aircraft Finance Survey Program covers aircraft financing activities for corporate commercial and private customers. This global survey covers over 50 revenue and support positions within three functions. The results from the survey are reported in four distinct sections: corporate transactions, commercial transactions, private transactions and all transaction types combined.