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[ original email was from Annie Walsh - aw@cameronsystems.com ]
CameronFIX Selected by Warsaw Stock Exchange for Direct Market Access to the Global Financial Community
London, UK: Tuesday June 28, 2005: — Cameron Systems, the leading global provider of FIX protocol messaging solutions today announced the Warsaw Stock Exchange [WSE] has selected the CameronFIX platform to provide market participants worldwide with high throughput direct market access to the Polish market.
The CameronFIX Direct Market Access architecture provides quality access to global markets with high consistency, high throughput, low latency and integrated functionality for integrated risk, compliance, business intelligence, monitoring, high availability and workflow exception management.
"Access to WSE trading system via standardisation with the use of the FIX protocol should contribute to further increase in market liquidity, the development of its technical infrastructure and the higher number of remote members, foreign investors and issuers on the Exchange,” said Marzena Smetek, FIX Project Manager, Warsaw Stock Exchange.
"FIX connectivity for Exchanges is a major focus for Cameron Systems globally and we are delighted the Warsaw Stock Exchange has selected the CameronFIX DMA Architecture.” said Cameron Systems Director of Sales Glenn Cruickshank. "As leaders in the adoption of FIX in major EU, US and Asian markets, we are proud that Cameron Systems is playing a leading role in bringing the FIX Protocol standard to Poland. We will also be making additional announcements during 2005 that further demonstrate the growing number of Exchanges and Brokers, across instrument types and geographies that are implementing CameronFIX DMA solutions.”
“The CameronFIX implementation at the Warsaw Exchange has added support for NSC/MMTP FIX connectivity to the CameronFIX DMA Architecture that will be of interest to other Exchanges running the NSC system, a number of which we are already in discussion with,” added Cameron Systems CTO, John Cameron.
Cameron Systems has emerged as the leader in providing all FIX trading requirements for Exchanges, Brokers, Fund Managers, Transaction Networks, Software Vendors and other market participants.
Today’s announcement follows Cameron’s recent successful FIX Direct Market Access implementations with major Exchanges including Singapore Exchange, Deutsche Bourse, Tokyo Stock Exchange, IntercontinentalExchange, Australian Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange with more underway.
Cameron Systems, a Premier Member of the FIX Protocol Organisation, is exhibiting at Trade Tech Fixed Income Conference in Paris, June 28 – July 1.
About Warsaw Stock Exchange
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (http://www.wse.com.pl/ ) (WSE) operates based on the Law on Public Trading in Securities of August 21, 1997 (as amended), under the supervision of the Polish Securities and Exchange Commission (http://www.kpwig.gov.pl/ ). Capital market traditions in Poland go back to 1817, when the Warsaw Mercantile Exchange was established. The Warsaw Stock Exchange began activity in its present form on April 16, 1991, starting from the very beginning with electronic paperless trading. Today, the Exchange lists shares of 238 domestic and 6 foreign companies. The domestic company’s market capitalization amounts to 56 billion Euros. The Exchange also runs a derivatives market, offering a range of equity-based derivatives (index and stock futures, index options), as well as T-notes and currency contracts.
About Cameron Systems
Cameron Systems, the only globally proven Financial Information Exchange protocol [FIX] trading solutions provider celebrates 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.
With offices located in New York, London, Sydney and Shanghai*, Cameron Systems works with its sales and support Partners 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.
*Shanghai office opens mid 2005
www.cameronsystems.com
Contacts:
Annie Walsh, Cameron Systems
annie.walsh@cameronsystems.com, +61.412.867.068
Glenn Cruickshank, Cameron Systems
glenn.cruickshank@cameronsystems.com, +44.20.7464.8817