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1st September, 2005
Hawkpoint celebrates successful year using Fidessa
Workstation
LONDON – 1 September, 2005 –
royalblue (LSE:RYB), provider
of Fidessa, today announced that Hawkpoint Partners
Limited, the independent corporate finance advisory
firm has completed a successful year using Fidessa
Workstation as its sole platform for real-time
market data access to the UK and continental European
equities markets.
Fidessa Workstation was installed in the London
offices in September 2004. The transitory period
from the previous platform to Fidessa Workstation
took only two days.
Hawkpoint is an award winning corporate finance
house which advises corporates, financial institutions,
private equity houses, governments and quasi-governmental
bodies and is active throughout Europe. Fidessa
Workstation provides Hawkpoint professionals with
integrated real-time market data, research and
fundamentals.
Adrian Bolton, IT Manager, at Hawkpoint, comments:
“Fidessa Workstation has reduced our market
data costs significantly helping us to offer the
full depth of market data to all our professionals.
What is more, it is an industrial strength platform
which has delivered substantial volumes of data
without a single outage since we installed it.”
Fidessa’s flexible commercial
model enables companies to pay just for the coverage
and functionality their users need. As a result
financial institutions, such as Hawkpoint can
typically reduce their market data costs by up
to 50%.
Simon Barnby, head of strategy for Fidessa
Workstation, says: “With the world of corporate
finance demanding broad market data coverage and
powerful functionality, the ability to offer all
this in a flexible and cost-effective way is key.
Fidessa Workstation presents a fully-managed,
one-stop solution that meets the requirements
of the most demanding corporate finance houses.”
The Fidessa product suite provides
integrated trading, market data and connectivity
solutions to around 8000 users at over 150 institutions
around the globe.
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About Hawkpoint
Hawkpoint is a leading independent corporate finance
advisory firm which advises corporates, financial
institutions, private equity houses, governments
and quasi-governmental bodies and is active throughout
Europe. Its advisory services cover Mergers &
Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Debt, Restructuring
and strategic advice. It has some 60 professionals,
a multi-lingual team and undertakes transactions
across Europe out of its offices in London and
Paris and handles cross-border US transactions.
About Fidessa group
Fidessa group is a leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side globally. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, the Fidessa products and services are built on the clear vision of providing the richest functionality, coverage and distribution to all tiers of the financial markets community.
The Fidessa suite is used by 85% of tier-one, global equity brokers as well as niche regional players, providing powerful multi-asset trading, order management, compliance and middle-office capabilities, along with sophisticated algorithmic trading and smart order routing services.
The Fidessa LatentZero suite is used by the world’s largest asset management firms through to smaller specialist boutique managers and hedge funds, providing comprehensive portfolio analysis, real-time P&L, what-if analysis, investment compliance, order and execution management, and post trade processing tools, across all asset classes.
Fidessa’s global network carries over 180 million messages a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, Indications of Interest and FIX Allocations between over 2,200 buy-sides and 360 brokers across 115 markets worldwide.
Headquartered in London and with offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto, San Francisco and the Kingdom of Bahrain, Fidessa serves over 22,000 users across 630 clients globally. Fidessa group was founded in 1981, has revenues of £189.1m, employs 1,400 people and has been fully listed on the London Stock Exchange (FDSA) since 1997.
www.fidessa.com
www.latentzero.com
For further information, please contact:
Simon Barnby
Fidessa
+44 (0) 20 7105 1250
simon.barnby@fidessa.com
Alastair Turner
Aspectus PR (PR Agency)
+44 (0) 20 7487 8443
alastair@aspectuspr.co.uk
Fidessa® is a registered trademark of Fidessa Group plc
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.
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