IMI Forums Partners With FSTC

Analysts In Media is pleased to announce a successful partnership with the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) and IMI Forums. IMI (Informed Market Intelligence), a division of Analysts In Media, is an established Forum of Choice, chartered with creating and producing distinctive and boutique-style specialist Forums. IMI adds value to the overall IT industry by responsible advocacy and representation of end user streams of demand and service provider business solutions. The partnership with FSTC further enhances the objectives of IMI Forums by providing a platform for leading industry analysts to share insights and expertise on Emerging and Traditional technologies and Best Business Perspectives, Strategies and Technologies with practitioners.

This partnership comes in the wake of IMI Forums’ most recent event, an information technology service management (ITSM) forum, which was held over a three day period in Austin, TX and featured delegates from Fortune 1000 companies. Amir Nikaein, Founder and Co-President of Analysts In Media expressed his thoughts on the partnership, “This is exciting news for the financial services industry because FSTC does great work with organizations by providing a collaborative process to industry infrastructure issues. With the participation of FSTC, we can ensure that those in attendance at the financial services forum have an enjoyable and educational experience.”

In March of 2008, IMI Forums will be hosting their Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) forum in Palm Harbor, FL. In attendance will be senior level executives from leading financial organizations. Nikaein went on to discuss what the partnership means for the event, "Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from FSTC’s expert analysts on ways in which they can collaborate on aspects of their business operations."

Later in 2008, IMI Forums will also be hosting a Retail and Manufacturing forum.

About BFSI

Banking and Financial institutions, regardless of size, serve a common mission: to create value for customers and share holders.

To create this value and continue to sustain and deliver on high demand and expectations, Financial Institutions MUST invest in new technology and architecture. Organizations, within and adjacent to the banking industries, need to create and deploy new business models that extend beyond traditional partnerships and alliances and generate new value propositions and revenue from forecasted advanced technology experts.

Informed Market Intelligence (IMI) in collaboration with FSTC and leading industry analysts, has created a forum that enables senior executives from within the banking, financial services and the insurance industry, to meet with and evaluate, those customized solutions, services and partners that will manage the execution of business and technology strategies.

During the three day technology exchange, participants will be able to discus new initiatives and solutions with leading financial experts and institutions, keen on developing new systems, ideas and proposals.

About FSTC

FSTC sponsors noncompetitive collaborative research and development of interbank technical projects affecting the entire financial services industry. Its mission is to help members collaborate on technical and business aspects of technologies so that they may rapidly bring innovations in service and quality closer to the marketplace and to their customers, while competing upon a bedrock of sound, sharedtechnology fundamentals. FSTC manages a collaborative design and development space in which technology companies, research organizations, and financial institutions come together to address product development barriers.

FSTC can take up a challenge from vision and concept through business case, on to specification, design, and development, then to pilot, proof-of-concept, and evaluation, then finally to the marketplace. FSTC also evaluates current technologies with an eye toward documenting the risk and opportunity for use and improvement. www.fstc.org

About Analysts In Media

AIM Inc. headquartered in New York, NY, is a leading global provider of high quality, comprehensive information resource for the professional and enthusiast markets. Through progressive research, surveys and client case studies from visionaries and leaders in the industry, AIM provides access to its validated knowledge via targeted multi-media channels, publications, events and online services. In addition to presenting best of breed solutions to end-users, AIM provides a platform for institutions and practitioners to discuss and highlight the issues and challenges faced by the industry today, while providing a glimpse into the cutting edge technologies being researched and readied for tomorrow and the future.