Fidessa group plc
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| Fidessa | |
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| Founded | 1981 |
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| Headquarters | London |
| Key People | John Hamer, Chairman; Chris Aspinwall, Chief Executive |
| Employees | 1,100 |
| Products | Independent service vendor |
| Web site | http://www.fidessa.com |
Fidessa is a vendor specializing in multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for the buy side and sell side. According to Fidessa, the Fidessa products are used by 85 percent of tier-one, global equity brokers, the world’s largest asset management firms to smaller specialist managers and hedge funds.[1]
In March of 2009, Fidessa announced the launch of round-the-clock trading for its global trading service. Fidessa’s global trading service is a fully integrated international trading service available within its U.S. hosted trading platform.[2]
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History
Besides its headquarters in London, it has offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto and San Francisco. Fidessa group serves around 22,000 users across 520 clients globally. Fidessa group was founded in 1981, has revenues of $270 million, employs over 1,100 people and has been fully listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1997. The company’s former name was royalblue group plc.[3]
In April of 2009, Baikal, the London Stock Exchange’s planned pan-European dark pool multilateral trading facility (MTF) and liquidity aggregation service, announced it had partnered with Fidessa.[4]
Products and Services
Some products and services include[5]:
- Fidessa Workstation - global market data, execution management, European trading
- Fidessa LatentZero - portfolio analysis, real-time P&L, what-if analysis, investment compliance, order and execution management, and post-trade processing tools, across all asset classes, to all tiers of the buy side.
Key People
- John Hamer, Chairman
- Chris Aspinwall, Chief Executive
- Andy Malpass, Finance Director
- Ron Mackintosh, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
- Philip Hardaker, Independent Non-Executive Director
References
- ↑ "About Fidessa”. Fidessa. Retrieved on February 27, 2008.
- ↑ Press Release. Fidessa. Retrieved on March 3, 2009.
- ↑ FAQS. Fidessa. Retrieved on March 3, 2009.
- ↑ Press Release. Fidessa. Retrieved on April 21, 2009, 2009.
- ↑ Fidessa Workstation. Fidessa. Retrieved on February 27, 2008.



