Asset management

Enabling the future of asset management with specialist expertise across wealth management, combined with digital engineering excellence.

Embracing transformation in asset management at speed

Financial institutions are facing a challenging environment. Recent events have seen an acceleration in changes to the way we work and how our customers want to interact. Cloud technologies and operating models allow for customization at scale, with more automation and efficiency – but making the change from legacy systems brings risk and can disrupt compliance.

The incorporation of environmental, social & governance (ESG) reporting into the investment process is a high and current priority for all asset managers that requires comprehensive oversight and management of data across the entire organization.

While broader regulatory compliance and reporting is non-negotiable, clients are choosing who they work and invest with based on brand trust, resilience, sustainability and reliance.

Agile, modern technology for game-changing asset management

To stay competitive, businesses are replacing expensive on-premises software with “cloud-ready” operating models for more efficiency, more effective automations and to protect margins.

AI and innovative technology are being deployed to deliver agility, scale and cope with increasing commercial pressures, regulatory compliance and reporting.

Asset managers are looking at ways they can reduce costs, transform legacy applications and reduce their data center footprint. On-premises systems and databases utilize a lot of hardware, storage and require highly specialized personnel. This – combined with typically high license costs – makes the case for cloud transformation to achieve cost reductions, operational efficiency and competitive advantage.

This must be driven at high speed and with a team that understands the fundamentals of delivering compliant asset management solutions and the technology that sits behind them.

GFT: Asset management

A leader in technology

GFT is globally recognized as a leader in asset management technology with precision engineering and delivery.Our team of industry experts, many of whom have overseen technology practices in asset management, work with the most renowned wealth management organizations in the world.

Quality solutions quickly

GFT has developed a modern engineering practice that has successfully transformed clients’ IT and ways of working, enabled true self-sufficiency and de-risked delivery. We have the DevOps capability and accelerators to deliver quality solutions quickly.

Premier partnerships

GFT has premier partnerships with all major cloud vendors and an Eco Partner program which offers our clients cutting-edge technology.

Scale up or down on demand

GFT has a strong track record in cloud, data engineering and reporting that underpins our propositions combined with our size, global reach and practice capability ensures we can scale up or down on demand in line with our clients’ needs.

Embrace modernization and innovate now

GFT delivers the future of asset management for some of the most prominent brands in the world as well as the newest, disruptive entrants. We have helped our clients to deliver solutions that take advantage of AI and emerging technology.

As a result of our work, our clients have managed to embrace modernization, efficiency and cost-reduction, enabling them to move to digital ways of working, including greater automation and process optimization.

GFT is recognized by its clients and partners as the sector specialist when it comes to innovative asset management solutions. We provide consulting services that are specific to the sector and lead major transformation projects.

Discover your competitive edge

We are often asked to modify a standard “off-the-shelf” deployment and make it fit a competitive, global banking business’s markets in a variety of use cases. These include:

Cloud adoption – How to accelerate self-sufficiency and de-risk delivery
Migration to Azure – How to boost efficiency, productivity and ROI, and hugely reduce costs
Regulatory reporting – How to implement policy and track performance, to free up time to focus on your business IT strategy
ESG disclosures – How to manage required data and build workflows to source the right underlying data to comply with disclosure rules
Master data management – How to instill and ensure trust in your data to build fast and scalable workflows
KYC and client onboarding – How to manage increasing costs and increasing compliance requirements, with real-time monitoring and detection processes
Anti-money laundering – How to manage AML compliance and personal data protection legislation by delivering a secured data science and AI infrastructure

If you need to accelerate performance and ROI for your teams and customers, it’s time to consider how you will drive your organization’s technology potential.

Success stories

A revolutionary app-based bank that puts ...

Mox is an app-based bank that makes managing money simpler and intuitive, by empowering customers with financial knowledge and providing a ‘one-stop shop’ for all their banking services and lifestyle rewards. This includes goal-oriented spending, shopping calculators and numberless bank cards.

With Standard Chartered as its backer, Mox was established to disrupt the Hong Kong banking market. GFT was chosen as its technical partner and the aim was to revolutionize personal banking with a mobile-only bank operating on AWS cloud.

DekaBank replatforms with GFT

GFT is modernising DekaBank's Cobol-based host application by re-platforming it onto a modern, cloud-enabled infrastructure and enabling the benefits of modern technologies, environments and architectures.

GFT is modernizing DekaBank’s Cobol-based host application by re-platforming it onto a modern, cloud-enabled infrastructure and enabling the benefits of modern technologies, environments and architectures.