SunGard has won Wealth & Finance International’s 2015 Alternative Investment Award for its XSP solution in the “Best Equities Broker/Dealer - USA” category. These awards recognize and pay tribute to groundbreaking, forward-thinking and client-friendly businesses across a wide spectrum of global industries and sectors. Winners were chosen based on a combination of online voting among alternative investment professionals and in-house research on each nominee’s innovation and performance.

SunGard specializes in providing a complete suite of corporate actions offerings for the financial services industry, including its enterprise-scalable XSP v5 processing platform, XSPrisa and XSPosure software as a service (SaaS) offerings, managed services and business process as a service (BPaaS) solutions. SunGard’s solutions help firms safeguard against unforeseen risk exposures and meet diverse market requirements while helping them more effectively serve their clients and reduce operational overhead.

Over the last year, SunGard launched XSPosure, a cloud-based risk dashboard that helps provide an intuitive, dynamic and visual representation of a firm’s corporate actions risk exposure; and Corporate Actions BPaaS offering firms a global, central repository of cleansed corporate actions data for consumption within corporate actions processing applications such as XSP. SunGard XSP has also maintained the SWIFT Certified Application Corporate Actions label every year since 2005.

“The 2015 Alternative Investment Awards pay tribute to the best of the best and only the most groundbreaking, forward thinking and client-friendly businesses.Chosen by alternative investment professionals, it recognizes companies like SunGard, which have done truly amazing things to change the financial landscape and the way we look at investing.” - Peter Rujgev, awards coordinator, Wealth & Finance International

“We’re pleased with the recognition SunGard continues to receive for our ongoing investments in our corporate actions processing offerings. SunGard’s innovations in cloud-based risk management, data services and global messaging standards help firms control costs, leverage sustainable models to operate more efficiently and scale for growth while addressing the increasing complexity and volume of corporate actions events. As broker/dealers and other financial institutions seek continued growth, the XSP suite of solutions will help them more effectively serve the investment community while reducing operational overhead through solutions such as our managed services offerings.” - Brendan P. Farrell, Jr., executive vice president and general manager, XSP, SunGard