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XSP Achieves Gold Status in Microsoft Partner Program

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XSP has achieved gold certified partner status, the highest level of competence, in Microsoft’s Partner Program. The corporate actions vendor became a Microsoft certified partner at the end of September last year and has now progressed to gold status.

The vendor achieved Microsoft gold certified partner status as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), attaining the ISV/Software Solutions Competency with the XSP v5 platform for corporate actions automation. The XSP v5 solution passed independent, third party laboratory tests for conformance with Microsoft’s highest standards for Windows Server tests, as well as .Net Framework and web services tests.

Craig Saint-Amour, US capital markets industry solutions director for Microsoft, says: “As a Microsoft gold certified partner, XSP secures specialised training, skills and knowledge to provide innovative Microsoft based solutions to help our mutual clients achieve critical business and technology initiatives in corporate actions processing.”

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