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[ original email was from Annie Walsh - aw@cameronsystems.com ]
Australasian Market Leader GBST Selects CameronFIX Platform
Cameron Systems to deliver leading FIX connectivity platform for GBST in Australasia.
Sydney, Australia: Thursday April 7, 2005 — The only globally proven Financial Information Exchange protocol [FIX] trading solutions provider Cameron Systems today announced GBST, the leading Australian based Global Banking and Securities Transactions company, has selected the CameronFIX Universal Server platform for FIX connectivity within the GBST suite of applications. GBST is the leading provider of securities transaction processing and the largest vendor developed securities network for the financial services industry in Australasia.
Cameron Systems has emerged as the global leader in providing FIX connectivity platforms for Exchanges, Brokers, Fund Managers, Transaction Networks, Software Vendors and other industry participants. The CameronFIX platform provides support for all versions of the FIX protocol (v4.0 to v4.4), all supported instrument types and message types across the trade life cycle.
GBST CEO, Stephen Lake says: ‘GBST, providers of the most popular platform in Australasia for the back office, is delighted to be working with Cameron Systems to provide, beyond expectation, quality FIX-compliant solutions across our client base and the market. The FIX trading enhancements provided by CameronFIX such as high availability and low latency, will build on GBST’s outstanding suite of solutions to stockbrokers in Australasia.”
“We are pleased to be able to announce this technology partner alliance with GBST and integrate the CameronFIX platform within another world class application,” said Cameron Systems CEO Peter Cooper. “Embedding CameronFIX technology will enable GBST to further grow their business particularly as the adoption of the FIX protocol electronic trading standard gains further traction in the Asian markets.”
Cameron Systems is next exhibiting at Trade Tech Equities 2005 in Paris, April 26 – 29.
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About Cameron Systems
Cameron Systems is the only globally proven Financial Information Exchange protocol [FIX] trading solutions provider for worldwide Brokers, Fund Managers, Exchanges, Transaction Networks and Software Vendors across the banking and financial industry. Celebrating 8 years of success in 2005 with more connections, more customers and more products, Cameron Systems continues to help grow financial markets worldwide by actively supporting and playing a leading role in the expansion of the FIX protocol. Cameron Systems has been a Premier Member of FPL the global industry body for FIX since 2003.
With offices located in New York, London, Sydney and Shanghai*, Cameron Systems works with its sales and support Partners globally and its worldwide client base to deliver greater efficiencies for all FIX trading to the thousands of institutions it connects in over 20 countries across Equities, Commodities, Fixed Income, Futures & Options and Foreign Exchange.
The world’s leading banking and financial firms have selected the CameronFIX platform. These include Nomura Securities, Standard Chartered Bank, Credit Suisse First Boston, Singapore Stock Exchange, Fidelity Management and Research, Knight Securities, UBS, Citigroup, Barclays Capital, Charles River Development, CIBC World Markets, MarketAxess, Gartmore Investment Management, MFS Investment Management, Macquarie Securities and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
*Shanghai Q2 2005
About GBST
Established in 1983 GBST (Global Banking and Securities Transactions) is the largest provider of securities transaction processing in Australasia and a leading provider of transaction solutions for the financial services industry. GBST Shares™, the trading, clearing, and settlement system preferred by the majority of Australian stockbrokers, processes up to half of all daily trades on the Australian Stock Exchange and also facilitates cross-border trading in New Zealand and Hong Kong.
GBST’s core competence is real time integrated transaction processing which reduces costs and the need for and risks to capital for a wide variety of market participants, including: global investment banks, custodians, clearers, stockbrokers, exchanges, margin lenders, and cash management providers. With offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Hong Kong, GBST has over 130 staff committed to providing advanced transaction solutions.
www.gbst.com
About FIX
FIX standards for Financial Information Exchange. FIX is the world’s preferred standard for financial markets trading connectivity for equities and is rapidly being adopted across all instrument types including foreign exchange, fixed income, commodities, futures, options and more. See www.fixprotocol.org for more information.
Contacts:
Annie Walsh, Cameron Systems
annie.walsh@cameronsystems.com, +61.412.867.068
Hurrem Basdan, GBST
Hurrem.Basdan@gbst.com, + 612.9253.6561