A Legacy of Strengths

The CAMS competitive edge and service proposition is manifest in its track record of delivering performance excellence and consistent stakeholder value for the past three decades.

What drives our leadership position is our core of deep-rooted strengths, which we have steadfastly nurtured and in which we continue to make strategic investments. These strengths, which we are continually augmenting, have led to the emergence of CAMS as a trusted, credible, distinctive, transparent and dependable brand of choice in the domains of our presence.

Our Strengths

Experienced Management, Board & Marquee Shareholders

With 28 years of average work experience, our key management personnel are providing far-sighted strategic guidance to the Company. The diverse sectoral experience that the management team brings to the table, across a wide gamut of financial services, are leading CAMS’ innovation-focussed business and service orientation. Our Board of Directors collectively possess an effective mix of skills and attributes with significant business, operational, technology, finance, insurance, legal and investment experience in a diverse range of industries.

The Marquee Shareholders and their shareholding include Great Terrain HDFC and HDFC Bank enabling us to effectively implement corporate governance standards.

Shareholding pattern as on March 31, 2021

Professionally Qualified Leadership

The expertise of our professionally qualified leadership lends business excellence to the Company, across functions. Our large resource pool with domain expertise gives us with the capacity and capability to align our strategic approach to the evolving needs of diverse clients.

Integrated Business Model

Our diversified portfolio of technology-enabled services, along with our pan- India physical network, constitutes the foundation of our integrated business model. By leveraging our technology-driven financial infrastructure, it helps clients save on investments in the development of such services, which can be a time-consuming and disruptive proposition. Our streamlined systems and processes give us the agility required to adapt to the specialised needs of our clients quickly and effortlessly.

Long-standing Client Relationships

Our engagement model as a service solution partner rather than service provider with complete alignment to our clients’ growth and strategy and consistent delivery of our services and solutions that is backed by competencies, business insight and innovation has helped us build long-standing relationship with our clients.

The average term of our relationship with our ten largest Mutual Fund clients is 20 years.

Technology-led Services Innovation

Armed with a dynamically evolving technological and digital infrastructure, we are continuously enhancing our service efficiencies. We have, over the years, developed strong proprietary platforms rooted in capability, functionality, integration and scalability. Our proprietary platforms are built to absorb growth in the number of investors, assets and trading volumes. We are continuously investing in augmenting our technology edge to enhance customer experience and boost business growth and bolster our competitive technology advantage.

From handling over 98 million transactions in the FY15, we handled over 323 million transactions in FY21.

Strong People Foundation

Our People are a key propeller of our strategic approach, and remain critical to our expansion and growth plans in a competitive and transforming market landscape. The Company carries the largest workforce with the specialised niche domain knowledge of Mutual Fund services and has consistently focussed on strengthening our People edge through targeted initiatives, aimed at their skill development and training. With a thrust on developing a seamless leadership pipeline, we provide our employees with career progression opportunities at every stage of their association with the Company.

Stringent Quality & Compliances

Serving as a SEBI-regulated entity, CAMS brings high standards of governance and oversight to its operations. Led by our focus on being a trusted provider of services to our clients and other stakeholders, we remain committed to ensuring sustained emphasis on regulatory compliances. Our compliance culture extends across our comprehensive Risk Management framework, systems and processes, as well as our Environment, Safety and Governance (ESG) philosophy.

The Promise of Safety

We have in place robust corporate governance systems designed to ensure ethics, transparency and safety in all our dealings. We remain focussed on ensuring regulatory oversight and cyber security for our clients and stakeholders. We continuously monitor our systems and processes, and endeavour to not only benchmark them against Indian competitors but also incorporate industry best practices and technological advancements in our operations. Data confidentiality and data security are in-built in our service proposition. We also continue to automate processes and enhance our systems and risk management to try to ensure that all our obligations and regulatory requirements are fulfilled on a timely basis and without error.

Our ISMS practices are very stringent and we are an ISO 27001:2013 certified company, enabling us to ensure total data security at all times.