10/01/2013  Excelian’s Graduate Programme 2013 begins

Excelian’s January graduate started this week with 13 talented graduates on board. After a rigorous three stage selection process, thirteen successful graduates from some of the most elite universities across the UK and Europe, start an intensive twelve week learning and development programme. The programme is split into modules designed to enable graduates to develop their technical, business and consultancy skills required for a career at Excelian. For more details on Excelian’s graduate programmes please visit the link below  

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22/10/2012  Excelian’s Continued Expansion Leads to New Board Appointments

As part of Excelian’s continued global expansion, the Excelian Board has announced several key appointments and changes at Executive level. With more than three hundred staff and revenues approaching thirty million pounds per annum, the expansion and re-structuring at Board level is reflective of the company’s continued success.  

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26/09/2012  Excelian Host HPC Workshop with IBM

Excelian and IBM co-hosted an exclusive breakfast briefing today at the Tower of London DoubleTree Hilton, which looked at the the latest high performance computing trends.  

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15/08/2012  Learn New Ways to Build and Test High-Performance Parallel Applications

Are you interested in the deployment of Hadoop MapReduce or other types of distributed grid workloads? If so, then you’ll be delighted to hear that IBM and Excelian are talking about new ways to build and test high-performance environments in an upcoming webinar on the 30th of August at 3.00 PM.  

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10/08/2012  Excelian Completes Flagship Upgrade for Lloyds Banking Group

Excelian announces the successful move onto the latest Murex Limits Controller (MLC) platform for Lloyds Banking Group (LBG).  

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12/07/2012  Excelian is recognised by the Sunday Times International Track 200

We are very proud to have been ranked 110th in the Sunday Times International Track 200.  

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28/06/2012  Excelian attended the Microsoft Cloud Day which took place on Friday the 22nd of June in Fulham Broadway, London.

The opening speech was given by Scott Guthrie – Corporate Vice President at Microsoft in charge of the development platform for Windows Azure – who presented the features introduced in Windows Azure latest spring release. This post will summarize the main features shipped with the release.  

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27/06/2012  Excelian 21club summary – Is it time to bet on cloud?

Excelian hosted another successful 21 Club Event – the event was set in the Eight Club at Bank, Change Alley. This 21Club brought together thought leaders from different industries to consider the question: "Is now the time to bet on cloud?" Through panel discussions and lightening talks, leading technology minds looked at Cloud and Grid services, analysing market opportunities for both, whilst also considering the commodity nature of cloud, cloud monitoring and cloud orchestration.  

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13/06/2012  Excelian Attends Investec Entrepreneurs Summit 2012

Having been listed for a second time in the Investec Hot 100 Real Business Awards, Excelian has been invited to attend the Investec Entrepreneurs Summit at the InterContinental, Park Lane, on 13th June.  

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19/06/2012  Excelian Proud Sponsors of MTOT 2012 Summit

The 3rd Annual Metals Trading Operations and Technology 2012 Summit takes place on Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th June in London.  

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11/06/2012  Excelian June Graduate Programme Begins

Excelian’s June graduate cohort join the first of our two 2012 training programmes on 11th June.  

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20/06/2012  Excelian To Host Cloud 21Club Event with Microsoft, Platform Computing and DynamicOps

Excelian is pleased to host the next in a series of 21Club events on Wednesday 20th June at one of London’s most stylish private members clubs.  

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02/05/2012  Excelian Hires 2 Key Seniors to Accelerate Global Expansion Plans

London-based Excelian Limited, one of the UK’s fastest growing, privately owned financial services consultancies, has announced two new senior appointments: Mike Feely, Chief Financial Officer and Simon Patston, Head of Australia.  

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20/04/2012  MLC Multi-Phase Risk Project Goes Live For Major Client

Congratulations to Excelian's MLC team who have just gone live with a complex, multi-phase MLC risk project covering MLC limits functionality implementing 1.5.4 version and re-engineering the limits framework to provide a more sophisticated, comprehensive and robust view of the Credit risk across the organisation. The phased project integrates multiple source systems to feed MLC, enforcing limits monitoring of numerous risks such as Credit, Pre-Settlement, and Settlement, Concentration (Country, Industry, and Facility) as well as various Compliance risks and enhancements to allows for reporting of large exposures.  

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18/04/2012  Excelian's Proud to Help Team GB Get Ready for the Games

As a company with staff from 26 nations, Excelian is taking keen interest in London 2012. Now, with just 100 days to go until the Games begin, the company been particularly proud to see how money from private firms, including Excelian, has helped to boost Britain's medal hopes through the 'OurTeam 2012' initiative. You can read Team 2012's full press release here.  

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10/04/2012  Excelian Makes Second Appearance in Investec Hot 100

Excelian is proud to be listed for a second time in the Investec Real Business Hot 100 2012. This is a particularly significant achievement as it comes shortly after receiving Best Company 2012 1 star accreditation. These awards demonstrate not only Excelian's continued rapid growth, but also it's investment in and commitment to it's employees, whilst at the same time remaining highly profitable.  

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02/04/2012  Excelian's Back to Back Graduate Progammes Begin Soon

Graduates from around the world are gearing up for Excelian's April assessment days. Each is hoping for a place on the company's intensive graduate training programme. Having already passed an initial technical screening round, candidates now undertake a series of aptitude interviews and team challenges in a central London location. Successful candidates will join the company in either June or September 2012.  

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02/04/2012  Excelian are Fastest in the City!

Team Excelian currently tops the City Slickers go kart leaderboard ahead of Charles Stanley, Deutsche, RBS, Goldman Sachs, HBSBC, UBS and Coutts. Click through for the full current leader board.  

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31/01/2012  Guardian Letters - Excelian Joins the Debate

Excelian joins the bonus debate with joint CEO Jeremy Ward's Guardian letter (31/01/12 page 31). To read it in full, follow the link through the blue header above.  

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20/01/2012  Best Companies: We're A Star!

Excelian is delighted to have achieved 1* Best Companies accreditation for 2012 - the first time the company has participated in the scheme...  

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09/11/2011  Adam Vile to speak at STAC Analytics Technology Conference

Dr Adam Vile will speak on cloud strategies for grid and HPC at the STAC Analytics Technology Conference on 9th November. The event takes place from 1pm at the Bank of America, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf. For more details and to register, go to www.STACresearch.com/9nov2011  

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08/12/2011  Excelian21 Club Inaugural: Investment Banking / E-Gaming: Parallels & Challenges

Excelian announces the launch of the Excelian21 Club. The members of this invitation-only club are experts in financial technology drawn from a range of investment banking and other specialisms and the Club will meet on a regular basis to discuss topical issues of cross-sector interest. Hosted and chaired by Dr Adam Vile, Excelian's Head of Technical Consulting, members will meet for the first time at The Temple, Andaz Liverpool Street on the afternoon of Thursday 8th December, taking as their inaugural topic the parallels and challenges between investment banking and e-gaming.  

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21/10/2011  Excelian's 2012 Support Features in Evening Standard

Today's London Evening Standard features Excelian's support for athletes competing to be part of Team GB at London 2012. See reporter Lucy Tobin's full article here.  

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10/10/2011  Excelian Announces Key New Senior Appointments in Global Commodities and Pan - Africa Practices

10th October 2011 – Excelian Ltd, City-based specialist financial services IT consultancy, have announced three significant senior appointments within its expanding Commodities practice and the appointment of its first Head of its South Africa practice, covering the whole continent.  

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10/10/2011  Excelian Announces Latest Olympic Ticket Winners

Excelian has announced its latest Olympic ticket winners for London 2012. So far, three lucky staff have won a pair of tickets each to the Games in 2012. Overall, thirteen Excelian staff have now secured either tickets to the 2012 Games or places at warm up events. Joint CEO Jeremy Ward says "as a City focused, East London based business, we're delighted the Games are coming to town and we're making the most of it for our staff. We have secured a number of tickets and by following 'Our Team 2012' we also get to meet potential Team GB athletes, so the excitement is building." The company has six more pairs of London 2012 Games tickets for staff to win, along with a further dozen places at Our Team 2012 pre-Games events before the end of 2011 alone.  

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23/09/2011  SMEStorage announces Excelian as a new customer win

SMEStorage announces Excelian as new customer win. SME Storage has partnered with WebHostingBuzz to provide a Cloud File Server for UK & EU businesses and announced Excelian as a new customer win.  

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16/09/2011  Graduates Trade Places

Excelian's new graduate recruits traded ideas of the 'City' as part of this week's acclimatisation programme, visiting the Bank of England, Canary Wharf and major City institutions. With degrees from Amsterdam, California, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, Pretoria, Turin, UCL,Warsaw and York, the consensus is that they have joined an "exciting and challenging" sector in a week of intense interest in both regulation and risk - an area of specialist Excelian expertise.  

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21/07/2011  Excelian Meet Quadruple Olympian Matthew Pinsent to Promote Team 2012

With just over a year to go to London 2012, Excelian's Sue Primmer has joined quadruple Olympic gold medallist rower Sir Matthew Pinsent to be interviewed on the business benefits of 'Our Team 2012.'  

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12/07/2011  Graduate Programme Attracts Over 600 Applicants

Excelian's 2011 graduate programme has attracted more than 600 applicants - nearly double the number who applied in 2010.  

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28/06/2011  HPC: are accelerator technologies (GPUs) going to take over?

André Nedelcoux, Head of Grid, HPC and data caching at Excelian is set to join speakers from around the world at the USI 2011 'Meeting of Geeks and Bosses'.  

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20/06/2011  Cloud Computing: Has its Time Arrived?

Dr Adam Vile joins a panel of expert speakers at Lloyds of London on Monday 20th June to discuss the impact of cloud for insurance, catastrophe modelling and business in general.  

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23/06/2011  Taking HPC to the Cloud

Microsoft UK and Excelian are inviting a number of industry thought leaders to discuss the features and capabilities of the new release of Microsoft’s HPC server as a contender in the grid space, and consider where Azure might lead next. Keynote speakers: * Dr Adam Vile, Head of Technical Consulting, Excelian * Dr Michael Newbury, Windows Azure Lead, Microsoft UK * Miles Deegan, HPC Technology Consultant, Microsoft UK * Guy Shepherd, Head of Actuarial Systems and Solvency II IT, Prudential The event takes place on Thursday 23 June in central London. To find out more, please contact amelia.blampied@excelian.com.  

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18/05/2011  Grid Grows Up: Landmark Study Establishes Investment Banking Best Practice

A landmark study of grid computing maturity within global investment banking has been launched by Excelian, one of the City’s leading grid consultancy specialists. Fifteen tier 1 and tier 2 institutions took part in the project, which also establishes a set of best practice benchmarks to be used as a strategic planning tool for the sector.  

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10/02/2011  Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) and Excelian Complete Sector's Most Complex MXpress Project

Excelian has announced the delivery of one of the most complex Murex MXpress projects undertaken to date. The project for RBI, one of the leading banking groups in Austria and CEE, delivered over 250 complex cross-asset derivative products in just 19 months, all within the original time lines and to budget.  

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31/01/2011  Dr Adam Vile Joins CIO Panel

Excelian's Dr Adam Vile joins a panel of senior industry experts on the GigaSpaces Roadshow CIO panel on 2nd February. The panel will be discussing the challenges and solutions for next-generation application scaling for enterprise and cloud environments.  

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14/12/2010  French Media Focus on Excelian

Representatives of the French media visited Excelian's London headquarters on 14th December as part of a tour of the Olympic Park and East London. The 15 journalists were visiting businesses featured in the Prime Minister's launch of a 'Silicon' Olympic legacy for the area. CEOs Adrian Marshall and Jeremy Ward gave a short presentation on the business benefits of our London location and their vision for 2012. The trip was organised by The Communications PR Company working with Invest Thames Gateway.  

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12/11/2010  Cameron and Johnson Feature Excelian in Olympic Legacy

UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Mayor of London Boris Johnson are using Excelian as a leading case study in their new vision for a 'Silicon Valley' stretching from Old Street to the London 2012 Olympic Park.  

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28/10/2010  Excelian Briefs Stockholm

Dr Adam Vile, Head of Technical Consulting, joins a panel of specialist speakers in Stockholm this morning debating "The Future of Financial Services Analytics: Trends in Cloud, Grid and HPC Computing".  

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14/10/2010  Platform Partnership Delivers High Performance Analytics

Excelian has reinforced its strategic partnership with Platform to deliver high performance analytics as a new service.  

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01/10/2010  Standard Bank Congratulations

Standard Bank has congratulated the Excelian team involved in the bank's recent successful Murex upgrade.  

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22/09/2010  Grad Recruitment Shortlisted for National Award

Excelian has been shortlisted in the top 5 of the National Graduate Recruitment Awards, sponsored by Archant media group.  

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20/09/2010  Excelian Confirmed as One of the UK’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Tech Companies

The Sunday Times (18 Sept 2010) has again listed Excelian in the top 100 of the UK's fastest growing private technology companies. The listings are sponsored by Microsoft.  

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15/09/2010  Excelian announces a new offering focused on HPC Services for Excel 2010

Excelian has announced a new offering, focused on helping Windows HPC Server 2008  

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15/09/2010  RZB MXpress Success

Excelian has announced the success of Phase 2 of one of its most complex, fixed price Murex implementations to date utilising MXpress (the new ‘out of the box’ approach that can reduce implementation effort by up to 50%).  

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13/07/2010  We're Number 1 Cloud and Proud on You Tube

Currently topping Google video searches for 'cloud in banking' is Excelian Partner Dr Adam Vile.  

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12/07/2010  Excelian Scores in UK International Export Tables

Excelian is ranked 63rd in the Sunday Times International League Table published yesterday, 11th July. This brand new league table ranks private UK firms with the fastest growing international sales.  

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12/07/2010  First Class Results for Graduate Recruitment

Excelian's first ever graduate recruitment campaign has proved a success, with a dozen top graduates due to join the company this October.  

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10/06/2010  New Senior Structure Announced

Excelian has today (10/06/10) announced a new top tier structure for the company. The changes follow an outstanding pattern of growth which has seen the company grow by more than 1,200% in the last 5 years alone. Annual turnover now exceeds £20 million and the company has more than 200 staff operating across Europe, South Africa and the Asia Pacific region.  

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07/05/2010  Hot 100

Excelian is one of the UK's Hot 100 according to Real Business Magazine.  

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