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Broad across regulated industries. Deep in alternatives.

RFA serves financial institutions and regulated industries worldwide, with our deepest specialization in alternative investment. Different strategies carry different technology and security demands, and we tailor our managed services to the operating realities of each.

35+

Years securing financial services

700+

Financial firms served globally

$1.5T+

Client AUM supported

The sectors

The pressure, and what we do about it.

Sector expertise is easy to claim and hard to evidence. For each strategy below, an operating reality of the business sits beside the specific thing RFA runs in response.

01

Private Equity

Secure deal environments, portfolio-company oversight, and diligence-ready controls across the fund lifecycle.

Deal rooms spun up and torn down on a weeks-long clock
Pre-hardened deal-room templates provisioned in hours, with per-deal access lists and a full record of who saw what at teardown.
Portfolio companies running inherited, uneven IT estates
A standard estate assessment on each acquisition inside the first thirty days, then a remediation plan sequenced and priced before the first board meeting.
LP diligence that reaches through the fund into your controls
Policy set, control evidence, and DDQ responses maintained continuously, so LP diligence is a retrieval exercise rather than a project.

Reviewed against

SEC · ILPA DDQ · SOC 2

02

PE Portfolio Companies

Carve-out builds, 100-day plans, and bolt-on integration for the operating companies behind the fund.

A carve-out on a TSA clock with no IT function of its own
A standalone estate stood up before the TSA expires: identity, network, endpoints, and service desk cut over against a dated plan the sponsor can track week by week.
Bolt-on acquisitions arriving with incompatible estates
One integration playbook applied to every bolt-on — a single identity domain, one security baseline, one support model — sequenced so the deal thesis is never waiting on IT.
A sponsor asking for exit-ready evidence years before the exit
Controls, evidence, and a costed technology roadmap maintained from day one, so vendor diligence at exit is a retrieval exercise rather than a scramble.

Reviewed against

Sponsor IT diligence · SOC 2 · Cyber insurance

03

Hedge Funds

Low-latency, resilient infrastructure and security that keeps the desk trading and the auditors satisfied.

Latency budgets measured in microseconds at the desk
Colocation and network paths engineered against the desk's own benchmarks, with change windows that never touch a trading session.
Market open is a hard deadline, not a target
A pre-open readiness check across every trading dependency, run and signed off by a named engineer before the bell.
Prime broker and counterparty connectivity that must stay live
Redundant FIX and market-data circuits monitored as first-class services, with failover rehearsed rather than assumed.

Reviewed against

SEC · FINRA · NFA · FCA

04

Asset Management

Scalable platforms and governed data for managers growing assets without growing operational risk.

Client and position data spread across a dozen vendors
One governed data layer over the vendor estate, with lineage recorded so any figure in a client report traces back to its source.
Assets growing faster than operations headcount
The repeatable middle-office work automated first, so headcount goes to judgment rather than to keystrokes.
Reporting cycles that cannot slip
Reporting runs treated as production workloads: monitored, alerted, and staffed through the close.

Reviewed against

SEC · FCA · SOC 2

05

Venture Capital

Lean, modern, security-first technology that scales as the portfolio and team expand.

A small team with no in-house IT function
A named service-desk pod that operates as the firm's IT department, from laptop provisioning through vendor escalation.
Founders and portfolio companies sharing sensitive material
Managed external sharing with expiry, watermarking, and an access trail the firm can hand to a founder on request.
A stack assembled quickly from SaaS, then inherited
A SaaS inventory carrying owner, data class, and access review per application, then consolidation of whatever overlaps.

Reviewed against

SEC (ERA) · SOC 2 · GDPR

06

Family Offices

Discreet, white-glove technology and cybersecurity tailored to the privacy demands of private wealth.

Principals and family members across many locations and devices
Household-wide device management and secure remote access, supported by engineers the family speaks to by name.
Privacy expectations well beyond institutional norms
Data minimization by default, named-individual access only, and no outsourced support tier touching the environment.
Wealth that makes the household itself a target
Principal and family threat monitoring, impersonation takedown, and travel-security briefings alongside standard SOC coverage.

Reviewed against

GDPR · State privacy statutes · SOC 2

07

Private Credit

Robust data and application services for complex, document-heavy lending and reporting workflows.

Document-heavy origination and servicing workflows
Document pipelines with classification and extraction built in, so a diligence file arrives structured rather than as a folder.
Borrower data arriving in every format imaginable
Ingestion tooling that normalizes borrower submissions on receipt, with exceptions routed to a person rather than dropped.
Covenant and reporting deadlines fixed to the calendar
Covenant calendars wired to monitored jobs, escalating before a deadline is missed rather than after.

Reviewed against

SEC · FCA · SOC 2

09

Fund Administrators

Resilient infrastructure and data controls for the administrators processing NAVs, investor records, and reporting at scale.

NAV cycles with no tolerance for downtime
NAV infrastructure run to a stated recovery objective, with failover tested on a published schedule and the results shared.
Investor records under constant reconciliation
Reconciliation jobs monitored as services, so breaks surface to an operator the day they appear.
Many clients on one platform, provably separated
Tenant separation designed, documented, and evidenced, so a client's own auditor can verify it without a bespoke exercise.

Reviewed against

SOC 1 · SOC 2 · CSSF · MAS TRM

Why the focus matters

Regulated industries are not a vertical to us.

01
Specialization in alternatives
RFA serves financial services and regulated industries, with our expertise in alternatives: hedge funds, private equity, and beyond.
02
Security at our foundation
Every engagement includes a 24/7 SOC, managed detection and response, and vCISO leadership. Security is at the baseline for every service.
03
Built for due diligence
Our controls, documentation, and reporting are built to meet investor DDQ and regulatory exam requirements.
04
Continuous, global support
Our offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific deliver consistent service for all the places your firm operates.
Getting started

The first ninety days, in order.

The same four steps whatever the strategy. What changes is the calendar we schedule them around.

  1. 01

    Sector discovery

    Two working sessions with the front, middle, and back office to establish what the operating calendar really looks like: market hours, close dates, NAV cycles, board and LP deadlines. Everything after this is scheduled around it.

  2. 02

    Estate baseline

    A documented assessment of infrastructure, identity, endpoints, and the application estate, scored against the framework your regulator and your investors already use rather than one of ours.

  3. 03

    Transition plan

    A sequenced plan with named owners and dates, priced before any work starts. Nothing moves during a close, an audit, or a fundraise.

  4. 04

    Steady state

    A named pod, a published SLA, monthly reporting, and a quarterly review held against the same figures we publish openly.

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