London-based Hedge Fund Manager Occitan Capital Partners has selected Options IT as its technology infrastructure provider.

Set up in Q4 of 2010 by Thomas de Garidel-Thoron and Hervé Gallo, Occitan Capital Partners provides fundamental long/short investing across the entire spectrum of pure equity products, specifically through the cash, volatility and dividends markets.

Occitan has selected the Options PIPE Core, one of three financial technology infrastructure services available on the Options PIPE platform, which is a fully managed and optimised global technology infrastructure and network connectivity environment providing on-demand, private cloud technology solutions to more than 120 investment banks, proprietary trading shops, brokerages, and traditional and alternative asset management firms globally.

“The changing market environment over the past few years significantly increased the level of operational sophistication fund managers must demonstrate to investors and regulators alike,” says Sophie Thieux-Billiard, COO at Occitan Capital Partners. “Working with providers like Options IT, enabled us to quickly implement a robust and secure business infrastructure with much greater efficiency than if we had set out to build it ourselves.”