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Alfa Financial Software - Untouchable versus rival products

October 2025

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Like this month’s main profile of Kainos (KNOS; 893p), Alfa is on an all-out recruitment spree. But the difference is that while Kainos integrates someone else’s platform (Workday), Alfa plays a very different game: it sells its own product - technology designed to power the complex world of auto finance. Think of it this way: when you buy a new car on hire purchase, you put down 10%, sign up for fixed monthly payments, and until the very last instalment, the finance company owns your shiny new ride. Alfa’s software is the brains behind that entire process, tracking payments and delinquencies. By all accounts, nothing else on the market really compares. FI is the closest rival, but Alfa stands apart: entirely cloud-native, faster, ...

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