TOKYO – August 29, 2018 – Simplex Inc., one of Asia’s leading financial services technology firms, announced today that it has become the first Japanese AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partners to acquire the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency status.
Simplex has demonstrated, through the process of status application, that it possesses deep AWS expertise and skills over security, performance, and reliability of their solutions. Simplex also demonstrated that it has always delivered effective solutions for critical issues pertains to the industry, such as risk management, core systems implementations, data management, navigating compliance requirements, and establishing governance models. By obtaining the AWS Financial Services Competency status, Simplex could promise its technical proficiency and customer success, through delivering solutions seamlessly on AWS related areas.
“Simplex is a major trading software platform player in Asia. Simplex is proud to be one of the first APN partners to achieve AWS Financial Services Competency status,” said Simplex CEO Hideki Kaneko. “Our team is always focusing at helping customers in the financial services industry achieve their business goals by leveraging the agility of AWS.”
AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.
Simplex provides a next-generation, cloud-enabled trading and risk management solution, named GenesisEIP, to bridge the gap between traders, quants, risk managers and IT. The solution enables quick delivery and focuses on time to market, enabling solutions to be deployed in days instead of months.
About Simplex Inc.
Established in 1997, Simplex Inc. provides consulting, system development, maintenance and operations to some of the largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies in Asia. With more than 20 consecutive years of profitability, Simplex has served more than 50 clients. The company is headquartered in Tokyo with offices in San Francisco and New York. Simplex employs more than 700 financial and software engineers and has invested significant capital to build a next-generation software solution for the financial services industry.