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New deal with financial rising stars for Aspire

ONE OF THE UK’S FASTEST GROWING FINANCIAL SERVICES companies has signed a new four-year deal to future-proof its technology services.

Fairstone Group, based in Boldon, has signed a contract extension with Gateshead-based Aspire Technology Solutions. Fairstone is made up of a number of financial services businesses, including Fairstone Financial Management, one of the country’s largest chartered financial planning firms, and has more than 50 staff based at its Boldon HQ, with another 230 financial advisers based across the UK.

Paul Beat, Account Manager at Aspire, said: “We are delighted to be extending our relationship with the Fairstone Group, which is continuing to expand across the UK. Aspire will be assisting the Group with consultancy and support for some cutting-edge technical projects.”

The deal will include the delivery of wireless disaster recovery links to ensure Fairstone has the most highly resilient backup systems in place and the organisation will also migrate to an Office 365 cloud based email system, in addition to moving to a single network.

Commenting on the technology tie-up, Sean Dotchin, Chief Technical Officer of Fairstone Group Limited, said: “We have grown considerably in recent years as we continue to partner with financial advisory firms across the UK, using our unique deferred buy-out option.

“As we have continued to expand, one of our biggest challenges has been to ensure that our technology systems have continued to grow with us, to remain highly resilient and industry-leading. We’ve worked with Aspire for about three years on a range of tech projects from internet connectivity and telephone and voice connectivity to advanced network and technical server support, and are looking forward to continuing to work with the team over coming years.”

The new contract will see Aspire help to develop a highly-scalable and sustainable infrastructure, in addition to robust recovery systems to ensure 100% continuity in the event of a disaster.

Aspire Technology Solutions is an award-winning IT company specialising in infrastructure solutions, connectivity and managed services. Established in 2006, Aspire has key sites in the North East and London and last year entered The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table for the first time. The technology firm saw turnover increase by 25 per cent in 2014 and is targeting similar growth for 2015.

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