Copal Amba

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Copal Amba was formed when Moody’s acquired Copal Partners in 2011 and Copal Partners acquired Amba Research in 2013, creating a combined entity called Copal Amba. Both Copal Partners and Amba Research had separately been ranked #1 by the Black Book of Outsourcing.

Copal Amba provides offshore research and analytics services to the global financial and corporate sectors. These services include investment banking analytics, investment research services across multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and credit, and quantitative research, market research, risk analytics, and business support in areas such as sales and marketing support, regulatory compliance support, and procurement support. The company counts amongst its clients leading bulge-bracket financial institutions, Fortune 100 corporations, mid-tier companies, boutique investment banks, and funds. As of February 2014, it had 2,900 employees of whom 2,600 were analysts.

The firm has delivery centers in Gurgaon, Bangalore, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, Prague and Westchester. It also has commercial offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Dubai. Copal Amba's Costa Rica office has been ranked 9th in Costa Rica and 48th in Central America and the Caribbean in the 2014 Great Place to Work® Central America and the Caribbean Survey. This is for the fourth consecutive year Copal Amba has been ranked by GPTW as a best place to work.

History

Copal Partners was founded in 2002 by Rishi Khosla. An entrepreneur, he could foresee that major investment banks would want to reduce their cost of research by outsourcing. Joel Perlman, LSE classmate of Rishi Khosla and an ex-McKinsey consultant, joined the company. Erstwhile Copal Partners was started with seed money of £40,000.

  • In 2008 Copal Partners acquired exëvo, a market research company
  • In late 2008, Copal Partners formed a joint venture with EthosData, a provider of virtual data room services
  • In late 2011, the Moody’s Corporation, a NYSE listed credit ratings and financial information company part of the Berkshire Hathaway Group, acquired a majority stake in erstwhile Copal Partners
  • In 2013, Copal Partners acquired Amba Research, thus creating Copal Amba

Client Segments

Copal Amba provides services to 6 sectors:

  • Investment Banks
  • Brokerages
  • Asset Managers
  • Private Banks
  • Corporates and Consulting
  • Commercial Banks

Services Provided

Copal Amba offers the following services:

  • Investment Banking
  • Equity Research
  • Fixed Income and Credit Research
  • Research Production
  • Quantitative Services
  • Market Research
  • Analytics
  • Strategy Services
  • Commercial Lending Support
  • Business Support
  • Training Services

Operating Offices

Copal Amba has offices around the world in the following locations:

  • Beijing, China
  • San José, Costa Rica
  • Prague, Czech Republic
  • Hong Kong, HK
  • Bangalore, India
  • Gurgaon, India
  • Singapore
  • Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Dubai, UAE
  • London, UK
  • New York, USA
  • West Chester, USA

Corporate Social Responsibility

Copal supports philanthropic work in Asia offering charity research. Copal Amba CSR initiatives are selected based on the changing needs of each local community. Copal Amba runs community trusts like 'Sparsh' and 'Spreading Smiles' wherein employees are encouraged to play leading roles and actively participate in various social projects.