Mumbai, 21st March 2007 – Epitome Global Sevices has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the “Cool Vendors in IT Sourcing and Services, 2007” Analyst: Frances Karamouzis, Date: 8 March 2007 report by Gartner, Inc.

Epitome Global Sevices was listed in the Gartner Report. Epitome provides services to “Small to midsize hedge fund managers, mutual fund managers and other asset managers. The industry is plagued with challenges: regulatory environment oversight, lack of quality, and key breakdowns in the process chain of pricing portfolios, which Epitome provides a framework for managing”.

Epitome also caters to “Midsize investment banks and securities firms. With regulatory changes forcing increased compliance, there is limited capacity in the U.S. and Europe with cost-effective resources to perform mundane functions in the areas of compliance and basic risk management”.

Epitome combines intellectual capital along with extensive functional and process knowledge to support complex financial services processes offshore, from India. It focuses on three areas: Complex quantitative analytics research for hedge funds, Risk management and compliance settlement, Fund accounting administration.

Target customers include hedge funds, small to midsize asset managers, private equity firms, and midsize and regional investment banks/securities firms in Europe, the U.S. and Asia/Pacific.