We are passionate about software and Agile methodology
About Us
Aquila Heywood builds modern software solutions for businesses, pension providers and third parties that help transform how their members manage their lifelong financial journeys.
Our aim is to inspire members, customers and policymakers, and together create and promote an environment that enables everyone to make more informed decisions to improve their financial security.
We work collaboratively with the industry and its customers to create long-term growth and lasting business value through technology solutions.
Our Approach
We combine a passion for software with Agile methodology to create customer experiences that delight.
Agile methodology
We use Agile processes, scrum methodology and a quality development and build pipeline to provide you with innovative, progressive and timely software solutions.
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Continuous learning
We believe in continuous innovation, testing and learning. We achieve this through test-first principles, collaboration and personal development at Hive, our monthly knowledge sharing and learning days.
Our Customers
We have long-term partnerships with customers across a range of industries and geographic locations.
'Aquila Heywood supported us every step of the way which ensured that configuring, installing and testing new MSS was easy and straightforward.'
Simon Wardrobe, Pension Systems Manager
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'We continue to be happy with Altair as it provides us with a reliable and accurate system to enable us to do our job effectively. The service provided by the technical guys and the whole team is second to none.'
Justine Spring, Pensions Manager
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'We see Aquila Heywood as a trusted partner who is flexible in their commercial approach. They were able to meet our timescales and offer us certainty of cost.'
Martin Bradley, Head of HSC Pension Service
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'NESPF continue to enjoy an excellent working relationship with Aquila Heywood that allows us to deliver high quality pension administration and develop our operation to meet our business objective of improved service delivery to members and employers.'
Gary Gray, Benefit Administration and Technical Manager
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'Avon Pension Fund has enjoyed a long standing working relationship with Aquila Heywood and I believe that this working relationship is stronger than ever given the joint development work we have been undertaking. Perhaps the evidence of this is that the Fund has been shortlisted in Professional Pensions: Pension Scheme of the Year Awards 2016.'
Tony Bartlett, Head of Business Finance and Pensions
'Having dealt with Aquila Heywood for almost 20 years I expected the migration to be professional, successful and timely. However, this exercise even surpassed my high expectations.'
Daryl Paine
Read the Case StudyOur Vision
We seek to build powerful and innovative platform solutions that simplify savings, investments and retirement income processing.
We strive to inspire members, customers and policymakers, and together create and promote an environment that enables everyone to make more informed decisions to improve their lifelong financial security.
Our Mission
- shape product innovation
- deliver technological excellence
- build long-lasting partnerships
- lead by example
- delight our customers
- create experiences
Our History
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1940s
Pioneer Geoffrey Heywood MBE and Co. created the vision and leadership that helped shape the life and pensions industry as we know it.
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1975
Heywood was formed in 1975, starting out as a small Liverpool firm of consulting actuaries.
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1980s/90s
The ground-breaking PMS6000 pensions administration platform (Watson Wyatt) quickly built a reputation for the most functionally-rich system available on the market, eventually becoming the cornerstone for an independent software house - Aquila.
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1998
Demand for an independent software house fuelled a management buyout and in 1998 Aquila was born.
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2002
In 2002, the two companies joined forces to become the largest UK provider of life and pensions administration systems.
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2016
Aquila Heywood was chosen to take part in the pensions dashboard industry initiative, as one of the technology partners.
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2017
We lead the industry with innovative technologies that simplify pensions administration, harness the power of digital engagement, drive operational efficiency and deliver advanced data analytics.
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2018
In 2018, the Aquila part of the Aquila Heywood group was sold to Equiniti. The Aquila Heywood group now consists of the Heywood, i-Connect and ATMOS companies.
Our Certifications
Aquila Heywood has a strong focus on quality. In the UK we are certified to ISO 9001:2015 covering all company processes and ISO 27001:2013 for information security. We undergo a formal external quality audit every six months to maintain these.