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SS&C Technologies

an American multinational financial technology company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7392916 ↗
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SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (known as SS&C or Securities Software and Consulting) is an American multinational holding company headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, that sells software and software as a service to the financial services industry. The company has offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as Advent Software, Varden Technologies, Eze Software, Intralinks, and Primatics Financial, SS&C specializes in specific fintech markets, such as fund administration, wealth management accounting, and insurance and pension funds. In 2020 SS&C Technologies reported in their balance sheet over $1.69 trillion in Assets Under Custody (AUC).

History

SS&C was founded by William C. Stone in 1986. The company went through an initial public offering process for the first time in 1996. It was taken private in a leveraged buyout in 2005 with Sunshine Acquisition Corp., affiliated with The Carlyle Group. And after some years as a private company, SS&C was taken public again in a second IPO in 2010 through a listing on Nasdaq under the symbol SSNC.

In 2021, Mammoth Scientific selected SS&C as the administrator and technology partner for its $100 million venture capital fund. The fund is for health science and technology companies.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “SS&C Technologies” as an American multinational financial technology company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1986, 1996, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. The account is most persuasive where Technologies, American and multinational can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as an American multinational financial technology company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7392916. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1986, 1996 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “SS&C Technologies” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.