24 July 2018
GBST, provider of wealth administration software through its Composer® platform, and Equiniti, the leading specialist administration and payment service provider, have formed a strategic partnership to provide best in class technology and outsourcing services to the market.
The two firms will work together to offer investment operations and platform technology to clients and prospective clients within the life and pensions and wealth management sectors.The partnership agreement follows the successful implementation and ongoing provision of services to joint client Retirement Advantage. Here Equiniti provides outsourced business solutions covering customer services, technology and change activity, including management of the underlying systems, while GBST provides the retirement platform for SIPPs and annuities, closely integrated into Retirement Advantage’s other technology and digital platforms.
David Simpson, Head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at GBST, commented: “As a specialist technology company in the wealth and life and pensions sectors, we are seeing increasing demand for outsourcing of both technology and people, with the aim of improving operating efficiency and reducing servicing costs.
Through our joint client Retirement Advantage, we already have a proven relationship with Equiniti and have each developed a strong understanding and familiarity with how the other firm operates. Equiniti’s staff are trained in our software from a customer processing perspective and its technology focus means it can also host and manage future upgrades of Composer®. We believe forming a strategic partnership is a logical next step in offering future mutual clients similar joined up services.”
Enrique Sacau, Head of Financial Services at Equiniti, added: “We see more and more that clients want to re-invent themselves and run their operations and technology cost base more efficiently. At the same time, we believe that life and pensions and wealth companies are ready for an alternative to the traditional, often overstretched, business process outsourcers operating in these markets.
Our combined life and pensions and wealth business unit offers a broad reach of outsourcing services which, we believe, is unique from one single provider. By partnering with GBST, which powers a number of the fastest growing propositions in the UK and offers, in our view, the best in class modern, modular retirement and investment platform available, we can offer a compelling comprehensive outsourcing proposition to this growing market.
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Mark Locke, Communications Director
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About GBST
GBST (ASX: GBT), provides global technology services to the financial services industry, addressing our clients’ constant needs for innovation, competitiveness and responsive IT that truly enables business. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, GBST has offices throughout Australia, London, Hong Kong and New York as well as operations in Paris and Singapore.
About GBST Composer®
GBST Composer® is a full service global software platform for Platforms, Wraps, Unit Trusts, ISAs, OEICs, SIPPs, and Pensions. Designed as a single, client centric application, Composer® is a complete, intuitive and flexible solution. Its architecture meets the demanding requirements of platform providers and fund managers by providing business rule driven functionality to support legislative change, flexible administration procedures and innovative product design.
About Equiniti
Equiniti Group(EQN: LSE)is a multinational specialist outsourcer delivering technology-enabled solutions to some of the world’s best-known brands and UK’s largest public-sector organisations. Equiniti is one of the largest providers of specialist pension administration and payment services and technology in the UK, working with schemes in the public and private sectors with complex defined benefit, defined contribution and hybrid pension arrangements as well as UK based life companies. Equiniti supports over 9 million pension scheme members and pays 3.5 million pensioners and annuitants over £31 billion into the UK and overseas.
To find out more, visit www.equiniti.com
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