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[ original email was from Annie Walsh - aw@cameronsystems.com ]
Alcion and Cameron Systems Partner on FIX
Alcion to be Authorized Reseller & Support Arm for CameronFIX in France.
New York, NY, August 12, 2002 — Cameron Systems, leading vendor for FIX engines in electronic trading, today announced a partnership agreement with French IT consulting firm Alcion, to provide support, integration and consulting services for CameronFIX in France. The agreement also gives Alcion rights to resell CameronFIX.
The partnership agreement with Alcion enables all CameronFIX clients in France to access Alcion’s 24 x 7 support services, as well as their FIX-based consulting services for integration and training.
Alcion has earned lead reputation in France and is first choice with the financial sector for advice on business process and the application of advanced technology.
"France is becoming an increasingly important market for us," said Martin Koopman, Commercial Director, Cameron Systems. "Alcion’s unique market position and experience in the financial services industry, combined with their technology skills, commitment to quality and customer satisfaction made them our first choice in a partner."
The CameronFIX engine has won more new customers than any other competing FIX engine during 2002. CameronFIX is a scalable implementation of the FIX protocol that enables STP of securities, fixed income, futures, options, foreign exchange and other financial products. Cameron Systems clients include UBS Warburg / PaineWebber, Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse First Boston, Compaq, Dresdner Bank, EMX, Knight Securities and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
"Alcion is pleased to bring our technical expertise and support in the areas of integration and training to CameronFIX users in France," said Jean-Francois Gervert, CEO, Alcion. "The CameronFIX engine has been proven by the increasing number of global Cameron clients. Their commitment to the continued development of FIX functionality will ensure an ongoing robust, well architected and easily adapted FIX engine for multiple environments."
Cameron Systems is exhibiting at Sibos 2002 — Geneva, Switzerland — September 30 until October 4.
About Cameron Systems www.cameronsystems.com
Cameron Systems is a leading global supplier of FIX (Financial Information eXchange) engines to brokers, fund managers and exchanges. Cameron Systems has focused on FIX engine development since it was founded in 1997. Its flagship product — the CameronFIX engine — is an implementation of the FIX protocol.
About Alcion www.alcion.fr
Alcion S.A is an IT services company which is located in the Business Center "Paris la Defense". Since the company was founded in early 1999, Alcion has developed strong competence in development and integration on Internet and urbanized architecture. More exactly in object technologies, UML, JAVA/ C++ and Microsoft mainly deployed on application server context, internet Intranet, relational databases, and distributed architecture (CORBA, J2EE, RMI, EAI, LDAP), .net and securised. Alcion now has more than 100 employees.
Alcion has earned lead reputation with a large number of clients within the banking, financial services and insurance sectors including BNP, Société Générale, Crédit Lyonnais, Banque de France, AXA, Generali, Aurel Leven and Credit Agricole Indosuez.
Media Contacts:
Annie Walsh
Cameron Systems
Tel. +61 412 867 068
aw@cameronsystems.com
Eric Treguer
Alcion SA
Tel +33 01 46 93 04 50
etreguer@alcion.fr