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Upskills teams up with Alveo to help APAC financial services firms tackle market data management and analytics challenges

Singapore, 19 April 2021 – Upskills, a leading Murex consultant and innovator for the financial markets, and Alveo have announced a new partnership to help the Asia-Pacific financial services industry address today’s market data aggregation, quality management and analytics challenges. The partnership combines Upskills’ human capital and APAC market expertise with Alveo’s data quality management expertise to deliver solutions to not only Murex users, but to all financial market participants across Asia.

Current market data and analytics requirements addressed by the partnership include improving the data quality of reference data, valuation data and risk factor data fed into Murex and other trading and risk systems.

The partnership will also enable business user self-service through easy data access, closing the gap between data management and analytics, helping to control the cost of market data and providing users with better features to understand data quality and automating the end-to-end data acquisition, verification and distribution process. In addition to meeting these immediate objectives, the two companies have a long-term focus on working together to create a more efficient and resilient financial data capability for the future.

Thong Tran, CEO of Upskills said: “We help banks and financial organizations to deliver projects efficiently and reduce time to market. Our service offerings cover the entire lifecycle of financial technology transformation projects: be it a greenfield implementation, an extension or an upgrade. We are delighted to partner with Alveo and put its award-winning technology to use to help our customers meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.”

Mark Hepsworth, CEO of Alveo said: “We are pleased to partner with a firm of Upskills’ capabilities and reach. At Alveo, we focus on innovating the entire market data management process for financial services including, for example, market risk, valuation, finance, analytics and scenario analysis requirements. We look forward to collaborating with Upskills from our Singapore office to service both new and existing customers across Asia.”

About Alveo

Alveo is the leader in market data integration and analytics solutions for financial services. Focused on optimizing data flows for business user self-service, we provide cloud-native data aggregation and data quality management that enables clients to easily access trusted data while maximizing their data ROI.

Through our managed services, we ensure that clients can smoothly onboard, prepare and validate data for use in operations, trading, investment management, pricing, risk, reporting and machine learning.

We service a global client base and our award-winning technology provides easy integration into business user workflows and a proven platform for advanced analytics. Through combining deep domain expertise with the latest open-source technologies, we help financial institutions ensure high-quality data, optimize market data cost and maximize productivity.

For more information see https://www.alveotech.com

About Upskills

Upskills is a financial consultancy company, who has managed to work with many notable companies in the investment banking sectors as well as many financial institutions.

We have extensive expertise in front to back office, cash derivatives and capital markets to ensure that all of the projects Upskills spearheads are smart, business-wise, and efficient solutions.

As an official Murex partner and certified Murex integrator, we present a complete array of services on Mx.3 and MxG2000 platforms covering: System implementation, migration and upgrades as well as support, development, and architecture consulting.

Upskills has many years of experience in financial market software, our team of experienced consultants will be driving your projects to success

www.upskills.com