Maitland, a South African fund administrator, has launched its new investor servicing, Retirement and Life products, with the help of Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing.

Jim Clark, Head of Transfer Agency Services at Maitland, said: “This is the first step on the journey to offer our clients a multi-product, multi-currency, multi-domicile platform to support their distribution and investor servicing.”

Maitland is now able to provide investor record-keeping services for South African pension funds, annuities, endowment and certain types of discretionary portfolios.

“This is the first critical delivery of the revitalization program for of our Transfer Agency business and it is wonderful that we can now service Retirement and Life products, a complement to our long-standing capabilities for unit trusts,” said Clark.

Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing was successfully deployed at Maitland as part of the revitalisation program of their Global Transfer Agency business, enabling the launch of a new product line.

Chet Kamat, Senior Vice President, Oracle Financial Services, said: “Today’s consumers are demanding better and more sophisticated investment options, and FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing is designed to bring agility and scalability to the asset management and transfer agency businesses by providing them a best in class, easy to configure and manage platform.”

“We have been active in this market segment for over a decade with a number of top tier customers across the globe and it is of great importance that we were able to onboard Maitland to our platform in record time,” he added.