GBST continues to expand its digital product offering
23 Oct 2018
GBST has extended its suite of products for the UK retail wealth management market with the launch of two new products: GBST Illustrate, a highly responsive illustration engine to meet GBST’s clients’ regulatory needs for producing compliant pension illustrations, and GBST Equate, a suite of interactive financial calculators supporting pensions, investments and personal finance planning.
GBST launches industry-first SaaS middle office on Amazon Web Services with voice control
16 Oct 2018
GBST has today announced the launch of Syn~TAC SaaS, an industry-first Software as a Service (SaaS) middle office platform developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services, Inc. The cloud-based offering reduces deployment and running costs, and features advanced voice control with a virtual assistant called 'Syndy'.
Appointment of New Chief Financial Officer
12 Oct 2018
GBST appoints Matthew Walton as Chief Financial Officer. Matthew has a strong background in finance leadership and transformation and has held senior finance positions in Australian financial services and information technology businesses over the past 20 years.
UK assets on GBST’s Composer® platform increase to over £100bn
06 Sep 2018
GBST has seen UK assets on its Composer® platform rise by over 50% to approximately £120bn and active accounts increase by 72% to 2,265,300 in the six months to end of June 2018. The increase in assets continues to be fuelled by the strong asset growth of GBST’s UK clients as well as the migration of books of business.
GBST to power Investec Click & Invest’s Personal Pension
07 Aug 2018
GBST will provide the Personal Pension administration technology to Investec Click & Invest’s digital offering via its award-winning Composer® back office platform. The partnership will support Click & Invest as it extends its discretionary managed online investment service to include a Personal Pension built in conjunction with GBST’s paperless integration system Composer®.
Elly Grace joins GBST’s Tax Solutions Team
31 Jul 2018
GBST appoints new Client Relationship Manager and Tax SME, a specialist in end to end client experience with expertise in tax product, analysis and distribution.
GBST and Equiniti announce strategic partnership
24 Jul 2018
GBST has formed a strategic partnership with Equiniti, the leading specialist administration and payment service provider, to provide best in class technology and outsourcing services to the market. We will work together to offer investment operations and platform technology to clients and prospective clients within the life and pensions and wealth management sectors.
The Australian Government’s Productivity Commission recently highlighted the benefits delivered to Superannuation Fund members through “tax aware” investment strategies. Utilising GBST’s patented and market leading tax solution technology, funds can manage their tax positions across all portfolios.
GBST delivers new fully customisable digital platform
27 Jun 2018
GBST has delivered a state of the art digital platform, Catalyst, for new and existing wealth management and pensions clients as part of its wider technology upgrade programme. Following significant investment in research and development, GBST’s Catalyst enables the creation of modern digital products and solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing robust GBST systems. The new digital platform will provide clients with a highly-configurable solution that offers multi-device access, can be integrated into a client’s existing website and is fully customisable to their own look and feel.
GBST supports Vitality’s Investment and Retirement proposition launch
21 Jun 2018
GBST is providing the technology behind Vitality’s new UK Investment and Retirement proposition. VitalityInvest extends Vitality’s existing life and health offering and is based on the principle of shared value - which generates economic value for all stakeholders through positive, long-term behaviour change – and aims to close the UK ‘savings gap’ through solutions that bring together investments and wellness. Vitality is part of Discovery Limited, a worldwide insurer and investment manager protecting more than eight million members in 18 countries worldwide.