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Polaris eyes emerging mkt post LaserSoft takeover

The company expects to be very competitive from technology and pricing aspect

Akanksha Prasad

Friday, October 16, 2009

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BANGALORE, INDIA: With the acquisition of Laser Soft, Polaris Software Lab Limited is aggressively eyeing at fulfilling its core banking portfolio, competing with established players like Infosys (Finacle) and I-flex(Flexcube). It expects to grab more market share in the Indian and emerging market.

Speaking to CIOL, R Srikanth, executive vice president and chief financial officer said, "Our products like the Global Universal Banking (GUB) covers the western world and global banks. We have been in strong position in terms of modular banking, but were lagging in core banking."

LaserSoft, he added, is doing extremely well in the domestic/ Indian market.

"Like, the entire core-banking of Corporation Bank runs on Laser Soft platform, also the Catholic Syrian Bank. Laser Soft products will compliment our products and not only help us enhance the core-banking portfolio, but also help establish strong foothold in the domestic market, which we can take to other emerging markets as well."

Taking about the present market he elaborated, "We would now compete directly with two companies in India with respect to core banking installation, like Infosys (Finacle) and I-flex (Flexcube). Therefore in terms of market positing, we would be counted among top three companies with equally smart solutions."

Furthermore, the company would now be very competitive from technology and also the pricing aspect, he said.

Resonating the vision, Srikanth added that the acquisition is in line with its stated Polaris 3.0 vision of achieving market leadership in financial technology through focus on account expansion and intellect expansion. This might also come through other strategic acquisition as well, based on the market trends and growth prospects.

The entire process of integration is expected to take 14-15 months, meanwhile LaserSoft will continue as an independent firm.

Post the integration, B. Suresh Kamath, present CMD of LaserSoft will be roped in the management level, where he would be handling the core-banking responsibility with major focus on the LaserSoft portfolio.

The Chennai-based financial technology company has announced to acquire 100 per cent of Laser Soft Infosystems Ltd in an all cash deal for about Rs. 52 crores ($11 million).

Laser Soft was established in 1986 with specializing in serving the unique needs of India and emerging markets.

The company has proven solutions in core banking, trade finance, treasury, cash management, mutual funds and loans serving over 50 customers including leading banks such as Corporation Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Mashreq bank, Catholic Syrian Bank, Andhra Bank, EXIM Bank of Tanzania and KEP Trust, Kosovo.

The solutions are benchmarked and recognized for sites having more than 20 million accounts, winning Best Technology Awards consistently for its ability to deliver high-performance banking at the lowest total cost of ownership.

"Together we will bring a robust and complementary solution-set that is uniquely suitable for emerging markets and will support our market proliferation plan," Srikanth is confident.

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=div30063 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>Andren said on 11/11/2009 5:27:50 PM: </span><br/>Who are the fools commenting so much???<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='showModal(30063,ctl00_ContentPage_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to Andren </div>

Andren said on 11/11/2009 5:27:50 PM:
Who are the fools commenting so much???

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@andren said on 11/13/2009 2:58:44 PM:
And who is this andren posting a comment to ask who is commenting and futher more cannot see the names mentioned? lol

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rekha said on 10/22/2009 9:41:37 PM:
look at the list of the banks that it have gained over these years, state bank of india, ICICI bank, chatholic syrian, corporation, andhra. i wonder where was this compnay hidden so far, and what made it get acquired for such a small amount

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prabhakar said on 10/20/2009 11:25:07 PM:
who knew that one day polaris and lasersoft will be part of headline. who knew about lasersoft, but today it might be as famous as polaris.

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sumit said on 10/18/2009 4:12:15 PM:
who suppots the SBI internet banking. IT is really bad.

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tejasvini said on 10/18/2009 4:10:08 PM:
polaris is an indian compnay. i hoght they are yet another MNCs

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abhiraj said on 10/18/2009 4:09:06 PM:
yeah, and i heard that canaras bank has some issues with the i-flex system.

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=div28631 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>raghav said on 10/18/2009 4:08:07 PM: </span><br/>you know axis bank uses finalce, and canara bank uses flexcube. now polaris knows who to attack :)<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='showModal(28631,ctl00_ContentPage_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to raghav </div>

raghav said on 10/18/2009 4:08:07 PM:
you know axis bank uses finalce, and canara bank uses flexcube. now polaris knows who to attack :)

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=div28639 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>Venkat said on 10/18/2009 10:17:41 PM: </span><br/>Polaris move has been intelligent to get into the Indian Banking space. Finacle and IFLEX have proved their mettle in global and Indian Markets. It will take time and investment for Polaris to give finacle and Iflex a real fight. Also they will need to decide their startegy if they will continue to go to market with Probanker of Laser soft or will merge with their core systems.<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='showModal(28639,ctl00_ContentPage_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to Venkat </div>

Venkat said on 10/18/2009 10:17:41 PM:
Polaris move has been intelligent to get into the Indian Banking space. Finacle and IFLEX have proved their mettle in global and Indian Markets. It will take time and investment for Polaris to give finacle and Iflex a real fight. Also they will need to decide their startegy if they will continue to go to market with Probanker of Laser soft or will merge with their core systems.

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abhiraj said on 10/18/2009 11:52:51 PM:
oh thats true, but look at laser soft, a small start-up a 40 cr company, but handing good accountsblike corporation bank and catholic syrian.

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=div29560 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>seema said on 10/20/2009 11:32:18 PM: </span><br/>hey, i want to know about HDFC and Bank of Baroda. both of them have good internet banking facility, who supports them?<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='showModal(29560,ctl00_ContentPage_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to seema </div>

seema said on 10/20/2009 11:32:18 PM:
hey, i want to know about HDFC and Bank of Baroda. both of them have good internet banking facility, who supports them?

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Samant said on 11/8/2009 9:28:57 PM:
Bank Of Baroda runs on Infosys-Finacle

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