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[ original email was from Annie Walsh - aw@cameronsystems.com ]
Cameron Systems Signs Velocity Systems for Global Services Partner Agreement
London, UK: Monday November 14, 2005 — Leading global FIX protocol solutions provider, Cameron Systems today announced a Services Partner agreement with financial sector IT solutions provider Velocity Systems for the provision of FIX implementation services based on Cameron Systems’ full suite of products, as well as supplementary commercial support services for select institutions.
Cameron Systems’ partner agreement with Velocity brings together the leading CameronFIX platform with Velocity’s proven and reliable consulting, Java development and support services.
“We are pleased to be working with the world’s leading FIX-based electronic trading solution,” said Alan Scott, Velocity Systems’ CEO. "Our partnership with Cameron Systems is a natural progression following a number of recent joint client projects including the FIX-enabling of the eSpeed FX platform. The proven CameronFIX architecture and connection flexibility for guaranteed counterparty connectivity completes Velocity’s capabilities for providing integrated, high performance FIX-based products and services for the financial community.”
Cameron Systems’ Director of Sales, Glenn Cruickshank says: “This commercial support and professional services partnership will allow clients benefiting from the Cameron Systems and Velocity alliance to receive a complete integrated product with customised support from Velocity in a number of geographies.”
Today’s announcement follows recent news regarding Velocity’s strategic alliance with existing Cameron Systems Software Partner Logicscope, a London-based product company specialising in post trade notification (STP) and market data integration.
Cameron Systems provides 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.
Cameron Systems, a Premier Member of the FIX Protocol Organisation, is next exhibiting at Trade Tech Asia, Singapore, November 28 - 30.
About Cameron Systems
Celebrating 8 years of success in 2005 with more connections, more customers and more products, Cameron Systems is the only globally proven Financial Information Exchange protocol [FIX] trading solutions provider. Cameron continues to help grow financial markets worldwide by actively supporting and playing a leading role in the expansion of the FIX protocol.
With offices located in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo and Shanghai, Cameron Systems works with its sales and support partner network and its worldwide client base to deliver greater efficiencies for all FIX trading across Equities, Commodities, Fixed Income, Futures & Options and Foreign Exchange.
The world’s leading securities and financial firms have selected the CameronFIX platform. These include Fidelity Management and Research, Knight Securities, UBS, CSFB, Citigroup, Barclays Capital, Charles River Development, CIBC World Markets, MarketAxess, Gartmore Investment Management, MFS Investment Management, Nomura Securities, Standard Chartered Bank, Macquarie Securities and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
About Velocity Systems International
Velocity Systems International is a Financial Services software company with specialised expertise in the area of Foreign Exchange. With offices in London, Sydney and Adelaide, Velocity provides the e-commerce Foreign Exchange Platform for the Commonwealth Bank and Westpac, and has provided IT and Business Process Support and Development for eSpeed (subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald) and Deutsche Bank, London.
A key area of expertise for Velocity is the development and support of links (adaptors) between the various markets, pricing engines and ancillary components of Foreign Exchange systems.
Contacts:
Annie Walsh, Cameron Systems
annie.walsh@cameronsystems.com, +61.404.867.641
Glenn Cruickshank, Cameron Systems
glenn.cruickshank@cameronsystems.com, +44.20.7464.8817
Alan Scott, Velocity Systems International
alan.scott@velsys.com, +61.2.8570.5080