RFA
An Official AYU Partner

Service

RFA provides award winning managed IT services to clients across the alternative investment sector. With a first contact resolution ethos, RFA meets the exacting requirements of financial services clients and provides best-in-class IT response times.

RFA’s managed services allow clients to access a virtual team of highly skilled, experienced IT professionals, to make sure they get the best advice and guidance, sharing responsibility for IT, de-risking the IT function and reducing dependencies on a single individual or small IT team. RFA’s managed services clients enjoy monthly, fixed cost IT services (with no minimum term contract) to allow budgetary planning and range from board level, strategic advice and guidance, and risk management support through to the minutiae of running an IT department.

Platform

RFA is a cloud solutions provider experienced at combining public cloud, RFA’s private cloud and client-owned IT infrastructure, with its goal always being to achieve the best outcome for its clients. 

The RFA financial cloud platform provides clients with on-demand, secure, hosted infrastructure enabling: 

• A cloud-first, cloud-everything approach for emerging managers 

• Established firms to transition infrastructure and management expenses from large capital investments to a more cost effective and predictable operating expense- focussed model 

• Firms to take advantage of the commoditisation of storage and computing offered by the public cloud 

Security

Cybersecurity has never felt more important to our clients; high risk firms who have a requirement to ensure robust cybersecurity and compliance. RFA provides clients with a multi-layered cybersecurity portfolio, to ensure that clients’ valuable digital assets are protected across the network and any application. From intrusion detection to cloud protection and access, encryption and authentication solutions, RFA secures its clients’ data from edge to core.
RFA’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service, which operates from a Securities Operations Centre (SOC) uses a combination of tools, some of which employ artificial intelligence capabilities and engineers’ “eyes on” to continuously monitor and assess customers’ networks, raising alerts and putting in place preventative measures to stop cyber breaches before they begin. 

RFA offers compliance archiving and monitoring, including for Bloomberg Messenger and documented cybersecurity governance and risk assessment processes which provide a foundation for effective technology solutions. 

Business

Managed Data Services 

For alternative investment managers looking to better harness the power of their data, RFA’s global Managed Data Services help empower your company to data mine investment and deal making decisions and ultimately improve profit margins across the board. 

Virtual CTO and CIO Services 

For clients requiring board level IT expertise, RFA offers an outsourced CTO service, which encompasses technology strategy, governance, risk management and vendor management services. Clients benefit from a structured and strategic approach to contract negotiation, technology optimisation and de-risking operations, delivered by a team of the best trained ex-CTOs, CIOs and COOs.