Technology Advisory
Technology as your growth engine — process automation and FINCAD analytics.
Our Methodology
Technology is your growth engine. We apply proven multidisciplinary techniques and tools to help clients improve how they operate, and we extend our service offering through technology innovation.
Process Automation & Improvement
We help organisations automate and improve their business processes — documenting current-state processes, eliminating redundancies, bottlenecks and manual effort, integrating business processes with information technology, and maturing processes towards greater transparency, efficiency and scalability. Recommendations are data-driven and balanced against management's risk tolerance.
FINCAD Analytics Suite (part of Numerix)
Ascent Partners provides the FINCAD Analytics Suite, the industry-standard derivatives pricing and risk-management analytics library (now part of Numerix). It covers a wide range of vanilla and exotic derivatives and fixed-income instruments — including convertible bonds, ESOPs and structured products — with robust models, audit-ready output and enterprise-grade data security.
Deliverables
- Process automation and improvement — current-state mapping, process flowcharts, controls and segregation-of-duties evaluation
- Integration of business processes with information technology
- FINCAD Analytics Suite licensing and deployment (part of Numerix)
- Derivatives and fixed-income pricing, risk and cash-flow analytics
- Audit-ready calculation methodologies and reporting
Our Experts
Paul Wu
Co-Founder & Director of Technology Advisory
Paul Wu is a co-founder of Ascent Partners and a Principal of Business Valuation. A Certified Management Accountant (CMA, Australia) and Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (CVA) with an MSc from Simon Fraser University, Canada, he advises on corporate services and the valuation of business entities, tangible and intangible assets and financial instruments for private and public companies, and previously served as an independent non-executive director of Lai Group Holding Company Limited (HKEX: 8455). Earlier in his career he held senior technology roles at Nortel Networks and UTStarcom across North America and Asia Pacific, giving him deep insight into technology businesses.
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