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The current quarter growth was driven by healthy growth in top client and banking, mainly led by the mortgage business. Going forward, the company expects top client contribution to reach pre-Covid levels by the next two quarters (from current 16.2% to at least 20.3% by Q4FY21E). In addition, FSL has seen healthy client wins (~15) in the quarter of which nine were in banking (especially mortgage). This, coupled with healthy wins in the previous quarter, improving UK BFS and ramp up of existing clients will drive mortgage business. A key driver of mortgage business (as per FSL) is...

Results beat; Guidance and Commentary gives comfort Firstsource (FSL) reported above expectation results, with a sequential revenue de-growth of 4.3% in CC terms (DART estm: 6.0% decline) due to positive surprise in BFSI Vertical (up 13.9% QoQ in $ terms) and OPM improvement of about 20bps...

The current quarter was impacted by lower volumes from top client. However, FSL expects contribution of top client to gradually improve from 13.7% of topline in Q1FY21 to 20.3% in Q4FY21E. Also, the company is seeing traction in its mortgage business (led by new home sales and may see better growth if delinquencies increases) and improvement in healthcare business. Further, six new logo wins in BFS, new logo win in media & communication, traction in UK retail & BFS and improvement in payer business is expected to drive revenues. In addition, FSL's strategy of...

Amongst the recent launches, partnerships & deal wins, it has launched pioneering platform-based service for Post- Closing' operations for a top mortgage lender an anchor client. In addition has signed on one of the world's leading card issuers for Digital Collections offering. In the Retail and Commercial banking arena, FSL is strategically partnering with top UK-based banks, enabling them to rapidly adapt to changing consumer preferences. More recently, have been playing a key role in...

During FY20 Vipul Khanna was appointed as CEO, prior to joining FSL, Vipul was the Executive Vice President & Global Head of Cognizant Digital Operations. CEO in his first address highlighted the strategic initiatives taken by the organization of ratcheting up investments in sales (Got-to-market; new capabilities), account management (business adjacencies) and solution development capabilities across sectors (Utilities and Technology Content Management) to further consolidate company's market position. This includes its newly launched Digitally empowered...

Results below estm; Guides steep cut in Q1 and Recovery Q2 onwards Firstsource (FSL) reported below expectation results, with a sequential revenue growth of 0.6% in CC terms (our estimate was 1.5%) due to weakness in healthcare segment (COVID impact - USD6mn) and OPM decline of about 40bps QoQ at 10.8% (our estimate was 11.2%). Healthcare segment de-grew by 1.3% QoQ as Providers clients faced decline in government funding in Feb and reduced number of elective surgeries and Payers volume got impacted as it witnessed lesser filling...

Revenues in the quarter were impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The company has indicated at supply side issues and client specific challenges impacting Q4FY20 revenues. In the near term, FSL expects pressure in healthcare business (due to lower elective surgeries & pricing pressure), challenges in top client (due to slowdown in UK economy) and seasonality in collections. Hence, we expect revenues to decline 10% QoQ in Q1FY21E with margins falling 200 bps. Going forward, we expect a gradual recovery in the collection business (led by higher origination business and higher...

The spread of Covid-19 has led to lockdowns in many countries globally and could have adverse economic implications. In addition, the recent fall in crude prices could also have an adverse impact of fiscal health of oil producing countries. As a result, IT companies, which have considerable exposure to verticals such as oil, energy & utilities; banking & capital markets; manufacturing and travel & transport could see an adverse impact from the ongoing crisis. Companies like Wipro, Infosys in large cap and MindTree, NIIT Tech, Sonata software, Cyient, Accelya Solutions among...

Firstsource reported a strong quarter with operating revenue witnessing growth of 7.5% QoQ. Growth was driven by the mortgage business (19% of revenue, 34.4% QoQ growth) and collections business (10% of revenue, 4.5% growth). Top customer (19.5% of revenue) also witnessed healthy revival in growth with 5.9% sequential growth after consistent pressure in last few quarters. As per the management, some amount of stability has started to come in the top client with ramp up in smaller projects within the client. Going forward, the management cited strong seasonality to play in...

Growth to be driven by collection, mortgage & digital Growth in the quarter was led by US mortgage business and momentum in some large clients in BFSI. As indicated by the management, growth visibility pertains to at least next two quarters in the mortgage business. In addition to this, BFSI, collection business and healthcare provider are expected to be one of the main drivers of growth going into FY20E. Accelerating digital revenues (~10.5% of revenue in Q1FY20 vs. 9% in FY19) and the company's internal target of reaching 13-15% of revenues in FY20E...