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LEONTEQ : Investing in container technology to support strategic business growth

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Swiss financial services company Leonteq harnesses container technology running on Lenovo- Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver applications to platform partners in as little as 15 minutes .

Leonteq is a young , dynamic , awardwinning financial services company specializing in structured investment products , long-term savings and retirement solutions . Headquartered in Zurich , Switzerland , the company operates in ten countries across Europe and Asia , serving over 50 markets and employing around 500 people .
Leonteq ’ s proprietary technology platform makes it possible to instantly calculate complex structured financial products , specifically tailored to customers ’ preferred industries , risk levels and other relevant factors .
Leonteq has established a platform partner business where partners benefit from solutions across the entire structured products value chain from structuring to pricing , documentation , issuance , listing and settlement , risk management , market-making , lifecycle management , distribution , risk and regulatory reporting and accounting services .
Jasenko Jorgic , Head of Infrastructure at Leonteq , takes up the story : “ We ’ ve established ourselves as an expert in the structured investment products space . We ’ re now looking to capitalize on our reputation to expand our scope of cooperation and increase efficiency through further automation . We chose to launch a white labeling set-up in order to enable our partners to issue their own structured products and benefit from our services to grow overall volumes .”
To support this new business model , Leonteq looked to standardize its software to run in Linux containers . Containers make sharing complete applications , along with all the dependencies , simple . ◊
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