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SunGard Acquires XcitekSolutionsPlus, LLC
January 7, 2013 — Wayne, PA
SunGard has acquired XcitekSolutionsPlus, LLC (XSP), a leading provider of end-to-end, automated corporate actions solutions. The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard’s financial results.
XSP offers a range of deployed, hosted and SaaS-based solutions that help automate the corporate actions processing lifecycle, including data sourcing and cleansing, position monitoring, notification and response and entitlement processing.
XSP will become part of SunGard’s capital markets business. XSP’s current chief executive, Brendan P. Farrell, Jr., will continue to lead the XSP team, reporting to John Grimaldi, head of the North American securities business for SunGard.
“This acquisition is an exciting step in the growth of XSP. XSP is already considered a leading provider of automated corporate actions processing solutions.* Becoming part of SunGard will help us grow our global footprint and further enhance the breadth of our offering,” said Brendan P. Farrell, Jr., chief executive officer at XSP.
John Grimaldi, executive vice president for SunGard’s North American securities business unit, said, “Corporate actions processing is fundamental to the successful operations of most financial services firms, including sell-side traders, custodians, asset managers, hedge funds and wealth managers. These firms are at the heart of SunGard’s business. The acquisition of XSP will help us deliver specialist corporate actions expertise and solutions to these core customers, and enhance our offering to our securities processing, accounting and servicing customers.”
*Source: Aite Group, December 2010
About SunGard’s XSP
SunGard’s XSP provides solutions and services for global corporate actions processing. Accredited with the SWIFTReady Corporate Actions Label, the XSP solution suite offers a range of deployed, hosted and SaaS-based solutions that help automate the corporate actions processing lifecycle, including data sourcing and cleansing, position monitoring, notification and response, and entitlement processing. The suite includes the XSP v5 platform for large multi-tenant enterprises, XSPrisa, a SaaS-based solution for small to medium enterprises and XSP GO!, a suite of customizable user interface components that includes mobile applications. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com/xsp.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and is ranked 480 on the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com.
Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, XcitekSolutionsPlus, XSP, XSPrisa and XSP GO! are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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