CLSA Expands Use of CameronFIX across Asia-Pacific and US Markets
For immediate release: Hong Kong & Sydney, Wednesday 20 October 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software, today announced that CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Asia’s leading independent brokerage and investment group, plans to significantly expand its use of CameronFIX for FIX infrastructure trading requirements within the Asia-Pacific and US markets. A valued CameronFIX customer since 2004, the terms of this latest deal were agreed in Q2 2010 and are based on CameronTec's licensing subscription model.
The expanded use of CameronFIX by CLSA within the Asia-Pacific region will see it utilised across major regional markets including China, Korea, Malaysia, India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines.
Chief Information Officer for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets Thiyagarajah Rajah says: “As CLSA continues to expand its business globally, our trading protocol applications based on the Financial Information eXchange specification are critical to ensuring our clients have very reliable and fast access to all the major markets. As a long-standing CameronFIX customer, we are confident this technology is the best FIX connectivity solution available today.”
Asia Pacific Sales Director for CameronTec Wais Metzing comments: “We welcome CLSA’s expanded use of CameronFIX. As a leading customer in the Asia Pacific region, this is positive development for CameronTec in the Asian markets. Local participants in both Asia and the US will benefit from significant electronic trading improvements provided by CameronFIX in such critical areas of latency and uptime, thereby more closely achieving optimum trading efficiency.”
CameronFIX is the outcome of 13+ years continuous investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on all five continents, as well as an increasing number of boutique firms seeking high standards for FIX, use CameronFIX for their performance based FIX applications.
In line with our commitment to respond to customer needs and deliver performance enhancements through incremental CameronFIX version upgrades, CameronTec will release CameronFIX version 6.5 during Q4.
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About CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets is Asia’s leading, independent brokerage and investment group. The company provides equity broking, capital markets, merger and acquisition, and asset management services to global corporate and institutional clients.
Renowned for service excellence, product innovation and award-winning market intelligence, CLSA has built its reputation on unrivalled equity research and economic analysis which is consistently ranked the best in Asia.
CLSA is one of Asia’s largest independent equity brokers and one of the world’s largest agency brokers. The group’s investment banking services include M&A advisory, equity transactions and public offerings. Alternative asset management is offered through a range of Asia-based funds under CLSA Capital Partners.
www.clsa.com
About CameronTec
CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions. Its latest market innovation Catalys takes FIX further and is the new industry reference for FIX ecosystems.
Catalys is based on the industry’s most widely installed FIX engine, CameronFIX. CameronFIX is universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the outcome of 13+ years continuous investment in performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. CameronFIX is today used by boutique to larger investment firms, brokerage houses, exchanges and regulators in 25 countries, on all five continents.
With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney.
CameronTec is an Orc Software company (SSE: ORC) and premier member of the FIX Protocol organization.
www.camerontec.com
About CameronTec Licensing
Standard agreements follow CameronTec’s licensing subscription model; a flexible approach designed to streamline the customer on boarding process and provide ease of access to software updates, together with a mature support framework. Customers are invoiced quarterly, in advance, and revenue allocated to the invoicing period.
Media Contacts:
Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445
Simone Wheeler, Head of Communications, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, +852 2600 8196, simone.wheeler@clsa.com
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