Assanka has a great heritage working with financial services clients – we have developed software to manage the most complex of products, whether it be insurance, funds, or wealth management, we know our Sovereign Wealth Funds from our structured products, and can explain the principles of securitisation without going cross eyed. Over the last two [...]
Review of 2009
Since we’ve arrived at the end of the decade as well as the year it seems a fitting moment to reflect on what we’ve been doing over the last year. Assanka was founded in 2003, which makes us a child of this decade, and as we approach the end of it, we think we can [...]
CIPR appoints Assanka
Assanka has been appointed by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, the professional body for PR practitioners in the UK, to help develop and implement a new web strategy for the CIPR.
We’re excited to have the opportunity to introduce best practice to many different and varied aspects of the CIPR’s online services, many of which [...]
FT Mobile: Best mobile site at AOP Digital Publishing Awards
We are delighted to say that last night, FT.com won ‘best mobile site’ at The Association of Online Publishers Awards in London which celebrate the very best in UK digital media. The judges said that m.ft.com was
clear, clean, easy to use, with good use of personalisation while staying true to the brand. A thoroughly [...]
Our first Webby!
Assanka’s already award winning relationship with the Financial Times reaches the pinnacle of success with two Webby awards, taking Best Business Blog in both the judges’ and People’s Voice votes.
Eat out for £10
Assanka has been busy this spring helping The Times to show you where you can eat out for a tenner. Learn more about our interactive map that’s encouraging user participation in the promotion.
Data Disaster
The recent disaster at HM Revenue and Customs underlines the fact that data protection is still not being taken seriously by Government. It’s not a failure of technology, it’s a failure of policy.
Capital gain
For some years it has been common for experienced investors to ‘gear’ or ‘leverage’ their investments by borrowing money from a lender, normally a bank, using the existing investment as security. The borrowed funds can then be invested in turn to make an additional return on the original investment. Foundations Capital conceived of [...]
Alphaville wins best business blog
Assanka is delighted to announce that FT Alphaville has won Best Business Blog at the prestigious 2007 EPpy awards in Miami, Florida. FT Alphaville is developed, maintained and hosted by Assanka for the Financial Times, and features up to the second, cutting edge business journalism from a dedicated editorial team based in London and [...]
Round the houses
Indexing 10,000 properties an hour, and serving over a million queries a month, OnOneMap is property search for people who like to get stuff done. Forget ten results per page, try three hundred – all precisely plotted on one map. Started as an in-house project by an Assanka developer, OnOneMap provides a great showcase for [...]