Simona Macellari

Research Manager, European Practice

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Simona Macellari is a research manager for Financial Insight's European Capital Markets practice, specializing in Pan European research and advisory projects for capital markets, wealth management, and insurance.

Industry Expertise

Macellari has extensive experience on issues related to the global securities markets; offline and online insurance, banking, and trading; channel management; and customer relationship management. Her career has touched technology trends in retail and institutional asset management, with particular emphasis on front-, middle-, and back-office applications, wealth management technology, trading and advisor-focused platforms and tools, and regulatory compliance. Given her experience, Macellari is often involved in consulting projects supporting financial institutions to align their IT strategies with business requirements as well as with IT vendors to understand the financial services specific technology demand and to fine-tune their offering.

Background

Macellari comes to Financial Insights after working as a manager for Practice Finance within IDC's consulting division. She has developed a deep and broad experience with high technology companies and financial services, having taken an active role as project leader in many consulting engagements that have supported strategic decisions of clients in the financial services sector. Before joining IDC, Macellari worked as a strategic marketing consultant for several IT companies in Italy, where she identified and conducted acquisitions of companies in South America and the Far East, and she worked as a broker in London.

Education and Industry Affiliations

Macellari has spoken at several industry conferences and she is also a frequent lecturer at the Bocconi University of Milan about electronic banking and finance.

She holds a university degree in law, majoring in economic law, from the University of Perugia; an MBA in information systems from SDA Bocconi in Milan; and a post degree diploma in export-trade. She attended post degree courses at the University College of London. In addition, Macellari is a qualified barrister in Italy.

Research Authored by Simona Macellari

Global Capital Markets 2Q06 Update: From Bird Flu to Iraq — An Unsettling Quarter
Randy Grossman, Jin-Chul (Gene) Kim, Andrew Liegel, Deborah Williams, Li-May Chew, Simona Macellari, Peter Farley
July, 2006 - Doc # FIN202593      Quarterly Update
This Financial Insights update looks at the key events of the previous three months that have affected the global capital markets. 2Q06 has seen a contraction in many world equity markets as the impac...

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European eTrading: Forecast and Analysis, 2006-2010
Simona Macellari
April, 2006 - Doc # FI02N      Marketplace
This Financial Insights document analyzes online trading accounts in Western Europe and their evolution over the next five years, examining the dynamics of major European countries and the adoption of...

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European Capital Markets 4Q05 Update: In the End There Can Be Only One?
Simona Macellari
February, 2006 - Doc # FIN1729      Quarterly Update
This Financial Insights quarterly update presents an overview of European developments in the capital markets during the quarter ending in December 2005, which can impact technological decisions. The ...

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Top 10 Strategic Initiatives for 2006: Insurance Industry Must Pick Up the Pace
Barry Rabkin, Li-May Chew, Patricia Howell, Simona Macellari
January, 2006 - Doc # FIN1725      Looking Ahead
This Financial Insights report provides an analysis of the 2006 top 10 strategic IT initiatives for the insurance industry. We have incorporated perspectives from our analysts in North America, Europe...

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Global Capital Markets 4Q05 Update: A Solid Finish to 2005
Randy Grossman, Damon Kovelsky, Jin-Chul (Gene) Kim, Deborah Williams, Simona Macellari, Li-May Chew, Andrew Liegel
January, 2006 - Doc # FIN1719      Quarterly Update
This Financial Insights update looks at the key events of the previous three months that have affected the global capital markets. 4Q05 has seen continued strong growth in world economies and stock ma...

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European Capital Markets 3Q05 Update: Consolidation Fever Is Heating Up
Simona Macellari
November, 2005 - Doc # FIN1686      Quarterly Update
This Financial Insights quarterly update presents an overview of European developments in the capital markets during the quarter ending September 2005, which can impact technological decisions.

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European Capital Markets, 2005: The Year in Review
Simona Macellari
November, 2005 - Doc # FIN1687      Market Overview
This Financial Insights study looks back to the top 10 European capital market initiatives for 2005, identified last January, to assess how those issues have evolved as we enter the last months of the...

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Underwriting Income Equation: Is Investment in IT Claim Management the Solution?
Simona Macellari
October, 2005 - Doc # FIN1546      Report
The global collapse of the equity markets has completely reshuffled the cards on the table for European insurance companies. Now that they cannot relie on gains from securities investments, they need ...

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Global Capital Markets 3Q05 Update: Merging Rules, Storms, and Oil
Damon Kovelsky, Vicky Polyakov, Deborah Williams, Randy Grossman, Jin-Chul (Gene) Kim, Li-May Chew, Simona Macellari
October, 2005 - Doc # FIN1674      Quarterly Update
This Financial Insights quarterly update presents coverage of the capital markets sector in the third quarter of 2005. This coverage includes current market conditions, trends, business initiatives, n...

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eTrading After the Gold Rush, Chapter 1: eTrading Is Dead, Long Live eTrading!
Simona Macellari
October, 2005 - Doc # FIN1666      Market Overview
This Financial Insights study examines how the etrading industry responded to the changes brought on by the dot-com crash in order to highlight how the technological platform has evolved to be aligned...

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