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[ original email was from Annie Walsh - aw@cameronsystems.com ]
Nomura Securities Signs Global CameronFIX Platform Agreement — CameronFIX First Choice for Japan’s Largest Broker
London, UK: Wednesday June 22, 2005: Cameron Systems, the leading global provider of FIX protocol messaging solutions today announced global financial services group Nomura Securities has signed a global integration and support deal for the CameronFIX platform.
CameronFIX has been selected as the basis for Nomura’s new global FIX project. Currently being rolled out, the project will replace Nomura’s legacy FIX platform.
“Nomura has evaluated a number of FIX products whilst looking for a future-proof FIX engine. CameronFIX is the best choice,” said Akio Hori, Executive Director in charge of Equity IT for Nomura Securities Co. “Nomura’s strategic project aims to deliver a best of breed FIX electronic trading service to our clients globally. With the growing demand for direct market access and algorithmic trading, we see performance, scalability and expandability as essential to ensure our further success in delivering FIX connected services to Nomura’s clients. CameronFIX is highly rated on all of these criteria. Assisted by strong support from Cameron Systems, we are now making the new service available.”
“We are pleased to be furthering our relationship with Nomura Securities and welcome the latest agreement for global CameronFIX connectivity,” said Cameron Systems Director of Sales, Glenn Cruickshank. “The CameronFIX platform has proved best fit on performance for Nomura and we look forward to contributing further to its worldwide trading infrastructure.”
Cameron Systems has emerged as the global leader in providing FIX connectivity platforms for Exchanges, Brokers, Investment 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 has just announced the latest CameronFIX trading enhancements with its new product release, CameronFIX Version 6.2.
Today’s news closely follows last month’s announcement by MetaBit, Cameron Systems premier partner for transaction networks in Japan and China, that Nomura Securities had joined its CameronFIX powered Market Liquidity Hub (MLH™).
Meet Cameron Systems and MetaBit at FPL’s FIX Conference in Shanghai this month. Cameron Systems and Premier Transaction Networks Partner, MetaBit Systems, will be co-exhibiting at the conference June 24.
The Nomura Group
Nomura is a global financial services group dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. The Group offers a diverse line of competitive products and value-added financial and advisory solutions through its global headquarters in Tokyo, 133 branches in Japan, and an international network in 28 countries; with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York. The Group’s business activities include investment consultation and brokerage services for retail investors in Japan, and, on a global basis, brokerage services, securities underwriting, investment banking advisory services, merchant banking, and asset management. For further information about Nomura please visit our website at www.nomura.com.
About Cameron Systems
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.
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 to the thousands of institutions it connects globally 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, Citigroup, Barclays Capital, Charles River Development, CIBC World Markets, MarketAxess, Gartmore Investment Management, MFS Investment Management, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Stock Exchange, Macquarie Securities and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
*Shanghai mid 2005
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
Mr Akio Hori, Nomura Securities
hori-0ftd@jp.nomura.com, +81.3.3271.9226