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.

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 world-leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for both the buy-side and sell-side globally. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero products are built on the clear vision of providing the richest functionality, coverage and distribution to the financial markets community.

The Fidessa suite is used by 85% of tier-one, global equity brokers providing sophisticated multi-asset trading, market data, order management and execution capabilities to all tiers of the sell-side.

The Fidessa LatentZero suite is used by the world’s largest asset management firms through to smaller specialist managers and hedge funds, and provides 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, to all tiers of the buy-side.

Fidessa’s global network carries over 130 million messages a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, Indications of Interest and FIX Allocations between over 1,800 buy-sides and 310 brokers across 100 markets worldwide.

Head-quartered in London and with offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto and San Francisco, Fidessa group serves 22,000 users across 600 clients globally. Fidessa group was founded in 1981, has revenues of around US$350m, employs over 1,200 people and has been fully listed (LSE:FDSA) since 1997.

For further information, please contact:

Alastair Turner
Aspectus PR (PR Agency)
+44 (0) 20 7487 8443
alastair@aspectuspr.co.uk

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