Alpha FMC Completes Double Acquisition of White Marble Consulting and Bankside Financial Solutions Consulting

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, a global provider of specialist consulting services to the financial services industry, has acquired two companies: White Marble Consulting, a specialist marketing consultancy firm to asset management, wealth management and alternatives clients, and Bankside Financial Solutions Consulting, a UK based technology consulting firm providing specialist data integration services to the asset and wealth management sector. The full management teams of both White Marble and Bankside will be joining the Alpha Group as part of the transaction.

Founded in London in 2014 by Twink Field, White Marble has a team of 28 industry specialists across the UK and North America. White Marble brings a very strong track record of delivering marketing services to asset management, wealth management and alternatives clients, and a highly complementary client base. The addition of White Marble extends the Group's specialist sector-focused offering, and the combined expertise of White Marble and Alpha creates a holistic range of client solutions from brand strategy to supporting go-to-market projects, to end-to-end digital and creative services support. The acquisition will enable Alpha to build a leading marketing, brand and creative agency proposition to financial services clients globally.

Bankside, founded in 2018 by Paul Cardosi and Rob Surridge, provides deep technology and data expertise to clients. Alongside a highly skilled management team, Bankside has c. 100 industry practitioners experienced in delivering critical transformations. Asset managers are increasingly moving to and investing further in enterprise platforms such as BlackRock Aladdin, Charles River, SimCorp, and Bloomberg. Bankside brings unrivalled expertise in data integration and migration in this space, with specific expertise in Snowflake. This includes delivery capability across the latest data cloud offerings and a proprietary tool that enables significant time saving and risk reduction on data migrations and implementations. The combination of Alpha's leading consulting capability for the asset and wealth management sector and the Bankside team's deep expertise and toolsets will enhance the Group's competitive end-to-end offering for clients through large-scale and complex technical implementations.