Keylane acquires Heywood

Pollen Street Capital (“Pollen Street”) is pleased to announce that Keylane has agreed to acquire Heywood, a leading UK-based provider of pension technology solutions. Heywood supports a wide range of pension schemes and plans through its data-driven, highly configurable technology platform. Heywood delivers modern digital solutions across complex, highly regulated pension environments, enabling its customers to improve operational efficiency, enhance member experience, and maintain strong compliance standards.

This acquisition represents a significant step in Keylane’s internationalisation strategy, extending its presence beyond its established European markets into the UK, North America and Asia-Pacific. As Keylane’s newest division, Heywood will strengthen the group’s position as a leading global pensions technology provider while also creating an expanded platform for long-term international growth. Heywood’s proven capabilities and strong cultural alignment make it a highly complementary addition to Keylane’s existing Life & Pension and Property & Casualty divisions, creating a powerful combined offering for pension customers across multiple geographies. Together, Keylane and Heywood will be well-positioned to drive growth across existing customer bases by delivering enhanced functionality and value through integrated and scalable SaaS solutions, and expand into new markets with best-in-class pensions technology. This partnership brings the additional capability and delivery-power of a larger group, while maintaining Heywood’s focus and commitment to service excellence that customers rely on.

Sian Jones, CEO of Heywood, said:

“This marks an important next step for Heywood on our growth journey. Joining Keylane strengthens our ability to deliver market-leading pension technology while continuing to operate with the focus and autonomy our customers value. Our commitment to providing excellent service and robust, future-ready solutions remains firmly in place, and we look forward to the opportunities this partnership will bring for our clients and colleagues.”

John Reynders, Group CEO of Keylane, said:

“We are highly impressed with what Heywood has accomplished. They’ve built a market leading, future-ready set of products and has earned the trust and loyalty of their customers over many years. This success has been delivered by an engaged and highly professional team that we are very excited to be working with over the coming years. We see that Heywood is the future of technology solutions for pension schemes in the UK and pension plans in North America and we couldn’t miss this opportunity to join forces with such a strong partner and start our expansion in the UK and North America. We see great possibilities by combining the shared cultures of excellence of Heywood and Keylane.”