Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has partnered with Quercus Technology Group, enabling cloud and application optimisation services for industry leading Tier 1 electronic trading applications and Capital Markets solutions.

The partnership creates a unique offering that combines domain knowledge and subject matter expertise across fully managed, cloud agnostic environments and application specific configuration, customisation and optimisation. The resulting solution is one specifically designed to drive value through reduced time to market, minimised total cost of ownership and maximised return on investment.

Options’ Senior Vice President, Tim Yockel, says: “We’ve been providing the financial services industry with innovative technology solutions for close to three decades and have cloud-enabled hundreds of applications globally. Partnering with Quercus Technology Group takes our Managed Application offering one step further, tailoring services to enable clients to capitalise on reduced deployment time and bespoke application configuration.”

Quercus Technology Group UK’s Managing Partner, Geoff Price says: “Quercus Technology is a hybrid professional services company offering end to end strategic technology consulting within the electronic trading and vendor technology space covering the Capital Markets ecosystem. As a newly founded firm, we are delighted to announce our global partnership with Options as a key next step in our strategy. By partnering with Options, we can deliver on many exciting projects to enhance deployment methods from development to production environments right through to complete infrastructure transformations.”