Fidessa

Fidessa

Infobox_Company
company_name = Fidessa
type = public
foundation = 1981
location = flagicon|UK London, UK
key_people = Chris Aspinwall CEO,
John Hamer Chairman &
Richard Jones CEO Fidessa LatentZero
industry = Software
products = Financial Software Systems
revenue = profit £135.0 million (2007)
net_income = profit £16.6 Million (2007)
num_employees = 1,100
homepage = [http://www.fidessa.com/ www.fidessa.com]
[http://www.latentzero.com/ www.latentzero.com]

The Fidessa group provides software and services that enable multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support and investment compliance, as well as market data and global connectivity services to both buy side and sell side financial services customers.

The company is headquartered in Woking (Surrey, UK) with offices in London, New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto and San Francisco. The group was founded in 1981 and has been fully listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:FDSA) since 1997.

Clients

Fidessa's client tend to be mid to large size financial institutions. The company claims to have around 22,000 users across 600 clients globally.

History

Originally founded in 1981 as IDS, the group was later renamed Royalblue group plc. With the group's core trading platform, Fidessa, being better known in the market place, the royalblue group plc changed its name to Fidessa group plc following shareholder approval at the AGM held in April 2007. [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSL1241091420070212 Royalblue to change name, looking for acquisitions | Deals | Mergers & Acquisitions | Reuters ] ] The change of name took effect on 1 May 2007.

In March 2007 the company also bought out the privately owned buy side trading provider LatentZero. This was then rebranded as Fidessa LatentZero. [ [http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/2008/Mar/11/FIDESSA_LATENTZERO_MINERVA_OEMS_PROVIDES_ACCESS_TO_FX_CONNECT.html Bobsguide - Fidessa Latentzero Minerva Oems Provides Access To Fx Connect ] ] .

Fidessa has been listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol LSE:FDSA) since 1997 and in 2007 achieved revenues of GBP 135.0m across both the Fidessa and LatentZero part of the business.

Acquisitons

* 2007 - LatentZero (LZ), UK

Competition

Fidessa's main competitors are DST Systems Inc., Charles River Development, Sungard, SimCorp, Linedata Services amongst others.

Products

Fidessa

A sell-side suite used by 85% of the tier one global equity brokers. It provides trading, market data, order management and execution capabilities.

Fidessa LatentZero

A buy-side Order Management System (OMS) suite used by 8 out of 10 of the global asset managers. It provides trading, order management, portfolio modelling and execution capabilities.

FIX Network

In addition to a trading platform, Fidessa host a broker neutral FIX-enabled execution network. This has a large number of brokers connected to it and is similar to other inhouse FIX networks, such as the LSE Hub.

Sitting on top of this, it is able to support a number of algorithmic trading platforms.

References

External Links

* [http://www.fidessa.com/ Fidessa Company website]
* [http://www.latentzero.com/ Fidessa LatentZero Company website]


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