News Archive

16 December 2010: Vienna & Ljubljana Exchanges Go Live with CameronFIX
8 December 2010: CameronTec Announces CameronFIX 6.5, Dashboard 1.1 and Customer Portal Enhancements
2 November 2010: Fixnetix Selects CameronFIX for Low Latency Enhancements to Hosted Co-location Services
20 October 2010: CLSA Expands Use of CameronFIX across Asia-Pacific and US Markets
29 September 2010: CameronTec Announces New European Partner, DEVnet
22 September 2010: CameronTec Launches Catalys, the New Industry Reference for FIX Ecosystems
September 2010: New York-based Technology Editor Eugene Grygo Examines the Case for Catalys
23 June 2010: Greenline’s Professional Services delivers FIX Expertise to growing CameronFIX integration requirements
22 June 2010: CameronTec announces Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking powers new FX API Infrastructure with CameronFIX
16 June 2010: CameronFIX User Survey Highlights Challenges Facing the FIX Protocol; Download the FIXGlobal article [548KB]
9 June 2010: CameronTec Announces New Global Partner E2E infotech
April 2010: The Standard — Newsletter (Issue 1)
23 March 2010: Lasalletech Partners with CameronTec
2 March 2010: Orc Software establishes focused CameronFIX subsidiary, CameronTec

31 August 2009: Cognitive Capital deploys CameronFIX for FIX connectivity
22 June 2009: Introducing CameronFIX 6.4 for greater performance and improved performance management
16 December 2008: Orc Software adds CameronFIX Strategic Partner in New Zealand and Australia
19 November 2008: CameronFIX 6.3.1 delivers Optimized FAST and further FIX Monitoring Improvements
8 September 2008: Orc provides connectivity solutions for new DIFX trading platform
11 June 2008: Orc Software Offers Integrated FAST Solution in Latest Version CameronFIX 6.3
9 June 2008: Open Link to Distribute Orc CameronFIX
26 September 2007: ICAP Utilizes Orc Software’s CameronFIX and CameronFAST to Support FX Trading over FIX Protocol
28 June 2007: LiquidityHub Selects CameronFIX to provide FIX-enabled Fixed Income Derivatives Trading Capabilities
20 June 2007: OpenLink Selects CameronFIX for Findur Trading Application
19 June 2007: BIDS Trading Selects CameronFIX to provide FIX Connectivity for their Alternative Trading System
18 June 2007: Orc Software Releases CameronFAST for Delivering FAST-Encoded-FIX
5 February 2007: Nordea integrates to Orc ExNet using CameronFIX
5 February 2007: Exane BNP Paribas switches to Orc Software’s CameronFIX platform

Vienna & Ljubljana Exchanges Go Live with CameronFIX

London & Vienna, Thursday 16 December 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software, today announced two exchanges within the CEE Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG), Vienna and Ljubljana, have gone live with CameronFIX — the global financial industry’s most widely-installed, high performance Financial Information eXchange (FIX) offering. The agreement was completed in Q1 2010 and is based on CameronTec's licensing subscription model.

The Vienna Stock Exchange is the initiator and like the exchanges of Budapest, Ljubljana and Prague, a 100% subsidiary of the CEE Stock Exchange Group, the largest exchange group in Central and Eastern Europe. The four member exchanges of the Group account for around half of total market capitalization and about two-thirds of equity turnover in Central and Eastern Europe. CEESEG is thus the largest player of all exchanges in the region.

The Vienna Stock Exchange operates the only securities exchange in Austria as well as the Energy Exchange Austria, EXAA, and the CEGH Gas Exchange of the Vienna Stock Exchange. The CameronFIX implementation for CEESEG currently covers around 20 financial institutions for order routing and market data. The solution also handles the interaction of orders managed by the standard trading front end software.

Today’s news follows the recent announcement by Ljubljana Exchange regarding its implementation and launch of the Xetra® trading system. By introducing Xetra to the Slovene capital market the Ljubljana Exchange is reaching one of its key strategic objectives: integration of the Slovene market into international capital markets.

“Vienna Stock Exchange provides state-of-the-art technologies and infrastructure to its members and market participants. The selection of the CameronFIX Engine is a continuation of our commitment to excellence, ensuring the smooth and efficient execution of stock exchange transactions and facilitating interaction among all market participants,” says Michael Buhl, CEO of the Vienna Stock Exchange and CEE Stock Exchange Group.

“CameronTec is pleased to be selected by the CEESEG to provide FIX connectivity for what is undoubtedly the largest exchange player in the region. We look forward to working with the Vienna and Ljubljana Exchanges to bring the broader benefits of CameronFIX to additional members of the CEE Stock Exchange Group,” commented Anders Henriksson, CEO for CameronTec.

"CameronFIX has traditionally been the preferred choice for exchanges, regulators and clearing houses seeking a high-performance, focused and independent FIX vendor," says Max Colas, Chief Product Officer for CameronTec. "In addition to countless member firms, today many exchanges are CameronFIX-enabled globally. When it comes to investing in a commercial FIX solution, exchanges value the integrity and reputation that come with the CameronFIX industry-standard."

CameronTec this month announced the release of the latest version CameronFIX 6.5.

About CEESEG

The CEE Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG) is the holding company of the four stock exchanges of Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague and Vienna. With almost half of the total market capitalization and about two-thirds of all trading volumes in equities in Central and Eastern Europe, the CEE Stock Exchange Group is the largest player of all exchanges in the region. To raise liquidity in the four markets the CEESEG eases market access and trading on the local markets. At the same time, the Group takes various coordinated measures to increase the visibility of the four markets.

About CameronTec

Catalys is based on the industry’s most widely installed FIX engine, CameronFIX. CameronFIX is universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the outcome of 13+ years continuous investment in performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. CameronFIX is today used by boutique to larger investment firms, brokerage houses, exchanges and regulators in 25 countries, on all five continents.

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company (SSE: ORC) and premier member of the FIX Protocol organization.

About CameronTec Licensing

Standard license agreements follow CameronTec’s licensing subscription model; a flexible approach designed to streamline the customer on boarding process and provide ease of access to software updates, together with a mature support framework. Customers are invoiced quarterly, in advance, and revenue allocated to the invoicing period.

Media Contact:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445

CameronTec Announces CameronFIX 6.5, Dashboard 1.1 and Customer Portal Enhancements

London, New York & Hong Kong, Wednesday 8 December 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software, today announced the release of CameronFIX version 6.5, Dashboard version 1.1 and the launch of its dedicated customer portal.

Within the global financial industry CameronFIX is recognized as the most widely-installed, high performance FIX offering. It is the outcome of 13+ year’s continuous investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. The latest version 6.5 delivers increased FIX functionality with several technical and functional enhancements based on requests from our customer base, enhanced support for FAST and SCP 1.1, improved persistence flexibility, and expanded functionality across a range of technology adapters.

Dashboard is CameronTec’s integrated monitoring platform designed to help customers gain trading insight for CameronFIX solutions; providing the capability to instantly access real-time activity and track, align with key business objectives. The latest release, Dashboard version 1.1, in major part extends the monitoring capabilities of this solution to the recently released Catalys 1.0 infrastructure.

Today CameronTec also launches its expanded customer portal designed to provide customers with exclusive access to enhanced information related to our products.

“With CameronFIX playing such a central role in the business of our ever-expanding user base, listening to customers and working to improve their experience is critical. CameronTec is committed to delivering the additional features and functional enhancements our global customers require to achieve their ever-expanding business objectives,” says Anders Henriksson, CEO for CameronTec. “In line with meeting these needs we are leading industry innovation to provide FIX ecosystem infrastructure resulting in our latest product release Catalys. This critical development takes FIX beyond an engine operating in isolation and factors in the performance requirements needed by mid to large size firms for running their many FIX instances across multiple sites and regions.”

Catalys was developed specifically to address the cross-functional needs of sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISVs globally. A highly adaptive and totally integrated FIX environment, Catalys is based on CameronFIX.

CameronFIX version 6.5 will be available from 20 December.

About CameronTec

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company (SSE: ORC) and premier member of the FIX Protocol organization.

Media Contact:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445

Fixnetix Selects CameronFIX for Low Latency Enhancements to Hosted Co-location Services

Tier 1 European Investment Bank first customer to benefit

LONDON, Tuesday 2nd November 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software, today announced UK-based provider of low latency market data and trading infrastructure, Fixnetix, has selected the CameronFIX Routing Hub and High Availability Solutions for its @ Source Hosted Co-location Services. The agreement was completed in Q1 2010 and is based on CameronTec's licensing subscription model.

Fixnetix customers such as investment banks and hedge funds will further benefit with the newly extended service for offering low latency FIX-to-FIX routing as well as the flexibility to leverage a Highly Available FIX service.

Operating some 18 co-location and proximity hosting centres across Europe and the US to support trading across all the major cash equities, futures, FX, commodities and bond markets, Fixnetix has completed roll-out of the CameronFIX solutions in it UK operations, with further plans to extend this worldwide.

“Fixnetix has a rapidly growing customer roster of leading investment banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading groups worldwide,” says Paul Ellis, Chief Operating Officer of Fixnetix. “Our successful innovation depends on organic and strategic partnership growth to fulfil all asset class low latency demands for data and trading.”

Michel Balter, Sales Director EMEA for CameronTec says market demand is growing for Fixnetix high value co-location offering low latency FIX services. “CameronTec is pleased that Fixnetix, a respected and fast growing provider of market data and trading infrastructure connectivity to financial institutions, has selected CameronFIX on the basis of scalability, low latency and flexibility to power its new low latency, Highly Available FIX offering.”

CameronFIX is the outcome of 13+ years continuous investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on all five continents, and an increasing number of boutique firms seeking high standards for FIX, use CameronFIX for their high performance FIX applications. In line with our commitment to respond to customer needs and deliver performance enhancements through incremental CameronFIX version upgrades, CameronTec will release CameronFIX version 6.5 during Q4.

Meet CameronTec at Upcoming FIX Protocol Conferences:

During November CameronTec continues to exhibit at FIX Protocol organisation conferences. Visit our stand at the FPL Briefing in Stockholm on 23 November to learn more about our latest market innovation and meet our team members closest to you.

About CameronTec

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company (SSE: ORC) and premier member of the FIX Protocol organization.

About CameronTec Licensing

About Fixnetix

Fixnetix is in 26 co-location and proximity hosting centres across Europe and the US to support trading across all the major cash equities, futures, FX, commodities and bond markets. The company offers both raw and ultra low latency normalised market data services, as well as low latency trading access for member firms and sponsored trading access to over 55 + markets.

Fixnetix's direct ultra low latency market data feed solutions are fast, reliable and flexible, featuring best-of-breed high performance feed handler technology, dual ticker plant technology and unparalleled high bandwidth provisions. Feeds are available in multiple formats for quick and seamless integration, offering full redundancy throughout the entire delivery mechanism, and are provided on-the-wire reducing support and implementation costs and timeframes.

www.fixnetix.com

Media Contacts:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445
Karen Bertoli, Chief Marketing Officer, Fixnetix +1 312 399 7878

Sales Contact:

Michel Balter, Sales Director EMEA, CameronTec,

CLSA Expands Use of CameronFIX across Asia-Pacific and US Markets

Hong Kong & Sydney, Wednesday 20 October 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software, today announced that CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Asia’s leading independent brokerage and investment group, plans to significantly expand its use of CameronFIX for FIX infrastructure trading requirements within the Asia-Pacific and US markets. A valued CameronFIX customer since 2004, the terms of this latest deal were agreed in Q2 2010 and are based on CameronTec's licensing subscription model

The expanded use of CameronFIX by CLSA within the Asia-Pacific region will see it utilised across major regional markets including China, Korea, Malaysia, India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines.

Chief Information Officer for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets Thiyagarajah Rajah says: “As CLSA continues to expand its business globally, our trading protocol applications based on the Financial Information eXchange specification are critical to ensuring our clients have very reliable and fast access to all the major markets. As a long-standing CameronFIX customer, we are confident this technology is the best FIX connectivity solution available today.”

Asia Pacific Sales Director for CameronTec Wais Metzing comments: “We welcome CLSA’s expanded use of CameronFIX. As a leading customer in the Asia Pacific region, this is positive development for CameronTec in the Asian markets. Local participants in both Asia and the US will benefit from significant electronic trading improvements provided by CameronFIX in such critical areas of latency and uptime, thereby more closely achieving optimum trading efficiency.”

In line with our commitment to respond to customer needs and deliver performance enhancements through incremental CameronFIX version upgrades, CameronTec will release CameronFIX version 6.5 during Q4.

Meet CameronTec at Upcoming FIX Protocol Conferences:

During October and November, CameronTec continues to exhibit at FIX Protocol organisation conferences, with New York on October 21 and Stockholm November 23. Visit our stand to learn more about our latest market innovation and meet our team members closest to you.

About CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets

CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets is Asia’s leading, independent brokerage and investment group. The company provides equity broking, capital markets, merger and acquisition, and asset management services to global corporate and institutional clients.

Renowned for service excellence, product innovation and award-winning market intelligence, CLSA has built its reputation on unrivalled equity research and economic analysis which is consistently ranked the best in Asia.

CLSA is one of Asia’s largest independent equity brokers and one of the world’s largest agency brokers. The group’s investment banking services include M&A advisory, equity transactions and public offerings. Alternative asset management is offered through a range of Asia-based funds under CLSA Capital Partners.

www.clsa.com

About CameronTec

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company (SSE: ORC) and premier member of the FIX Protocol organization.

About CameronTec Licensing

Standard agreements follow CameronTec’s licensing subscription model; a flexible approach designed to streamline the customer on boarding process and provide ease of access to software updates, together with a mature support framework. Customers are invoiced quarterly, in advance, and revenue allocated to the invoicing period.

Media contacts:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445
Simone Wheeler, Head of Communications, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, +852 2600 8196
simone.wheeler@clsa.com

CameronTec Announces New European Partner, DEVnet

London UK, Wednesday 29 September 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software, today announced an integration partner agreement with Munich-based consultancy DEVnet Holding GMBH. DEVnet, a specialist in trading and risk solutions, offers a broad range of services for both business and technology. The cooperation provides DEVnet with the opportunity to implement CameronTec products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

CameronTec’s alliance with DEVnet will bolster coverage in important European financial hubs such as Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Zurich, and complements core professional services for CameronFIX, the engine universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX applications. With proven track record and expertise in the areas of trading and risk management solutions, DEVnet is currently cooperating on CameronTec’s product implementations for exchanges across Europe.

“We see significant opportunity for the adoption of CameronTec solutions both within the mature and emerging markets in Europe, running in parallel with the financial industry’s increased uptake and mature deployment of FIX infrastructures,” says Anders Henriksson, CEO, CameronTec. “We believe our customers will benefit greatly from our cooperation with an expert like DEVnet.”

“We are pleased to form a partnership with CameronTec and work closely with the financial industry’s leading CameronFIX solution. With our many proven solution deployments in the areas of trading and risk, we consider this collaboration a good match in the area of market access. Fast and flexible market access plays a critical role for our clients.” says Andreas Kokott, CEO, DEVnet. “In CameronTec we have found an excellent partner to meet and address market demands now and in the future, using sound and proven technologies.”

Today’s news follows CameronTec’s recent announcement regarding its latest market innovation and new industry reference for FIX ecosystems, Catalys. Addressing the expanding cross-functional needs of sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISV’s, Catalys offers a highly adaptive, integrated FIX infrastructure based on the widely-installed CameronFIX. Catalys recognizes the increasing complexity faced by firms managing decentralized FIX infrastructure in a global environment, and provides enhanced flexibility, control and insight.

In line with its commitment to respond to customer needs and deliver performance enhancements through incremental CameronFIX version upgrades, CameronTec will release CameronFIX Version 6.5 during Q4.

Meet CameronTec at Upcoming FIX Protocol Events:

During October and November, CameronTec will preview Catalys at a number of key FIX Protocol organization conferences, starting with Tokyo on October 6, Sydney October 13, New York October 21 and Stockholm November 23. Visit our booth to learn more about this latest market innovation and meet our team members closest to you.

About CameronTec

CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions. Its latest market innovation Catalys takes FIX further and is the new industry reference for FIX ecosystems. Developed specifically to address the cross-functional needs of sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISVs, Catalys is a highly adaptive, integrated FIX infrastructure.

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney.

CameronTec is an Orc Software Company and Premier Member of the FIX Protocol organization.

About DEVnet

DEVnet is a highly innovative IT and business consultancy that provides expert services to the financial industry focusing on trading, risk management and finance. With outstanding business experience and technological knowledge, DEVnet’s specialists are experts in analysis, design, implementation and integration of mission-critical IT solutions.

DEVnet’s track record proves that the integration of state-of-the-art technology with sound business expertise is key to innovative, business driven IT solutions.

www.devnet.de

For further information contact:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445
Andreas Kokott, CEO, DEVnet, a.kokott@devnet.de, +49 (0)89 202084660

CameronTec Launches Catalys, the New Industry Reference for FIX Ecosystems

London, New York & Stockholm, Wednesday 22 September 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software, today announced the launch of the new industry reference for FIX ecosystems, Catalys. Addressing the expanding cross-functional needs of sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISV’s, Catalys offers a highly adaptive, integrated FIX infrastructure based on the industry’s most widely-installed FIX engine, CameronFIX.

Recognizing the increasing complexity faced by firms managing decentralized FIX infrastructure in a global environment, Catalys provides enhanced flexibility, control and insight… and delivers much more than a FIX engine:

High Availability with newly introduced flexibility for allowing trade-offs between optimal performance and data integrity in a variety of topologies,
Unparalleled compatibility with industry standards for full JMX monitoring, configuration and management,
Runtime configuration for increased operational flexibility,
Defined benchmark performance enhancements, and
Powerful developer testing tools for faster, rigorous development lifecycle and migration — that symbiotically combines JMX and FIX scenarios.

Anders Henriksson, CEO for CameronTec, says: "Catalys reflects our ongoing commitment to provide the industry with the continued and compelling innovation our clients need in today's increasingly competitive markets. As an ISV, we benefit from unique insight into the world of FIX that can only come from a concentration of the world’s largest, in-production FIX user-base. For many firms, isolated FIX engines do not address the additional complexities for controlling a global FIX environment."

Max Colas, Chief Product Officer for CameronTec, adds: “Catalys has come about through challenging established paradigms. Its release signals the breaking of legacy FIX deployment patterns, and the formation of a new connectivity cornerstone that enables users to achieve the convergence of the flows of FIX data with the flows that manage the FIX data. Catalys offers an unprecedented environment to develop, test, deploy and operate advanced FIX infrastructures.”

“Marking a new direction for CameronTec and the worldwide financial industry, Catalys combines the strength of years of experience in FIX, based on our long‐time CameronFIX engine, with framework additions to develop, test, benchmark, configure, deploy and monitor FIX infrastructure,” comments Steve Christinson, Chief Technology Officer for CameronTec. “Catalys targets a number of industry sweet-spots such as latency. In this regard we have shaved off significant performance fat for both exchange collocation and FIX hubs, with an additional throughput premium on the latter.”

Out of the box, Catalys provides the scalability of a management infrastructure that uses the JMX industry standard allowing application configuration that can be monitored and performance- controlled. Catalys is taking FIX further. It is the next generation FIX.

Meet CameronTec at Upcoming FIX Protocol Events.

During October and November, CameronTec will preview Catalys at a number of key FIX Protocol organization conferences, starting with Tokyo on October 6, Sydney October 13, New York October 21 and Stockholm November 23. Visit our stand to learn more about this latest market innovation and meet our team members closest to you.

About CameronTec

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company and premier member of the FIX Protocol organization.

For further information contact:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445

Greenline’s Professional Services delivers FIX Expertise to growing CameronFIX integration requirements

SIFMA’S FST EXPO New York: Wednesday 23 June 2010 — CameronTec, providers of the financial industry’s most widely utilized FIX infrastructure and connectivity solution, today announced during SIFMA’S FST Expo its ongoing partnership with worldwide trading technolgy provider, Greenline Financial Technologies.

As a long-established CameronFIX partner since 2005, Greenline provides FIX consulting, FIX implementation and e-trading advisory services for financial firms using or migrating to a FIX-based infrastructure.

“Greenline’s professional service capabilities offer an additional knowledge trust to assist CameronFIX customers make the most of their large-scale deployments,” says Max Colas, Chief Product Officer for CameronTec. “With CameronFIX used as the standard for many multi-site, cross-border FIX deployments, firms can sharpen their edge by tapping into Greenline’s global expertise.”

“The electronic trading marketplace increasingly supports the FIX Protocol and we have observed a growing demand for services expertise from firms eager to migrate, upgrade or leverage CameronFIX technology,” said Josh Nardo, Head of Professional Services at Greenline Financial Technologies. “With Greenline’s core expertise across the full life cycle of FIX engine implementation along with our long-standing partnership with CameronFIX and our global presence, we feel we are best-enabled to help users drive their deployment to the next level.”

CameronTec is currently exhibiting at SIFMA’S FST Expo in New York until June 24. To arrange a demo of CameronFIX please stop by our booth # 1416A. And ask for a copy of the findings from the recent Global CameronFIX User Survey.

About CameronTec

CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions; its flagship product CameronFIX is universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the only long-established FIX engine that delivers continuous, compelling version upgrades.

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm. CameronTec is an Orc Software company.

About Greenline

Greenline provides superior FIX Protocol and electronic trading technology solutions and services across all asset classes for leading global financial institutions. Greenline’s flagship product suite, VeriFIX®, CertiFIX®, MagniFIX®, MetriFIX®, and Latency Monitor delivers end-to-end global connectivity solutions for any electronic trading environment using or migrating to FIX Protocol. In addition, its premier Professional Services consultancy can evaluate and improve clients’ business strategy and trading technology operations, leveraging its expertise across all connectivity and messaging protocols. With global reach and client experience, Greenline is ideally positioned to meet the demand for connectivity and related trading technology. Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. is a member of FIX Protocol Limited – North Americas, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Technologies, Inc.

www.greenlinetech.com

For further information:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445
Diana Bhaktul, Marketing and Communications, Greenline Financial Technologies,
Tel: +1 212 813 6354, dbhaktul@marketaxess.com

CameronTec announces Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking powers new FX API Infrastructure with CameronFIX

Paris, London & New York, Tuesday 22 June 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions, today announced during SIFMA’S FST Expo in New York that Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has selected the CameronFIX Engine for its Fixed Income and Currency FIX infrastructure requirements. The contract was completed in Q1 and is based on CameronTec's licensing subscription model.

Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking’s Stephane Malrait, Global head of eCommerce says they decided on CameronFIX after a detailed analysis of its broader FIX requirements. “Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking’s primary objective is to offer high-quality services to our clients and to provide better trading processes and best execution services. We remain committed to extending our offering to clients as highlighted by our recent launch of our FIX eCommerce API platform.”

“We are pleased to be part of Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking’s strategic initiative in Global Foreign Exchange,” says Michel Balter, Sales Director EMEA of CameronTec. “CameronFIX will provide the FIX backbone for the bank’s Global FX distribution architecture and play a central role in API Trading and Data Streaming. Following a thorough assessment of their FX/MM systems and architecture, CameronFIX was selected based on its superior performance, scalability and high availability, and through satisfying rigorous requirements on low latency and high throughput.

CameronFIX is the outcome of 12+ years continuous investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on all five continents, and an increasing number of boutique firms seeking high standards for FIX, use CameronFIX for their high performance FIX applications. What is clear and apparent for most, is the criticality their FIX applications will play in their pursuit of liquidity amid continued market fragmentation and the emergence of new venues and distribution channels. CameronTec is currently exhibiting at SIFMA’S FST Expo in New York until June 24, stand # 1416A.

About CameronTec

CameronTec is the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions; its flagship product CameronFIX universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the only long-established FIX engine that delivers continuous, compelling version upgrades.

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong and Sydney. CameronTec is an Orc Software company (SSE: ORC).

About CameronTec Licensing: Standard license agreements follow CameronTec’s licensing subscription model; a flexible approach designed to streamline the customer on boarding process and provide ease of access to software updates, together with a mature support framework. Customers are invoiced quarterly, in advance, and revenue allocated to the invoicing period.

About Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking

At the core of Société Générale’s universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with nearly 11,000 professionals present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and global markets.

For Corporates, Financial Institutions and public sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.

For investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution and forward-looking research across asset classes.

www.sgcib.com

Media contacts:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445
Ila Kotecha, Media Relations Manager, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking,
+44 (0) 20 7676 6804

Sales contact:

Michel Balter, Sales Director EMEA, CameronTec,

CameronFIX User Survey Highlights Challenges Facing the FIX Protocol

Survey captures latest industry opinion regarding adoption of the FIX protocol; movement in FIX volumes since the financial crisis hit; and the greatest challenges currently facing FPL, FIX and its users.

Wednesday 16 June 2010 — CameronTec, providers of the financial industry’s most widely utilized FIX infrastructure and connectivity solution, today announced the release of the 2010 CameronFIX User Survey findings. A detailed copy of the findings will be available from the CameronTec booth during next week’s FST Expo in New York, and will also appear in the June edition of FIXGlobal magazine.

Download the FIXGlobal article [548KB]

Respondents to the global CameronFIX survey included both buy and sell sides, across large to smaller firms, as well as exchanges and ISV’s... in total representing FIX traffic volume of 200,000,000 FIX messages per day and more than 4,000 FIX sessions.

CameronFIX Survey findings include:

More than 75% of FIX users registered an increase in FIX volumes; with FIX usage reportedly greater since the financial crisis hit in 2008,
60% of firms reported no downsizing to their FIX team over the same period,
In terms of the versions of FIX being used and the age of infrastructure, findings indicate firms during the financial crisis, were staying with existing frameworks over anything new.

Industry participants also provided additional information around the findings with expanded commentary from firms such as Deutsche Bank and Winterflood Securities.

CameronTec is exhibiting at the FST Expo in New York June 22 - 24, booth # 1416A. Visit the stand to learn more about the industry’s most widely installed FIX engine, CameronFIX, and pick up a copy of the latest CameronFIX User Survey findings.

About CameronTec

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company.

Media contact information:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445

CameronTec Announces New Global Partner E2E infotech

Terms of the Agreement Cover the Middle East and India

London, UK: Wednesday 9 June 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions, today announced a global partner agreement with financial technology provider E2E infotech, a subsidiary of aurionPro Solutions Limited (NSE : AURIONPRO, BSE: AURIONPRO). The terms of the agreement also give E2E infotech specific CameronFIX reseller rights for the Middle East and India.

While focusing on the emerging Indian and Middle Eastern markets, E2E infotech are also well positioned globally with offices in New York, London, Mumbai and Singapore. This new alliance will bolster coverage in key emerging markets and complement core professional services for CameronFIX, the engine universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX applications. E2E infotech is currently participating with large CameronFIX installations in both Europe and Asia Pacific.

While E2E infotech was recently acquired by leading Asia Pacific technology provider aurionPro, it has also enjoyed a long direct association with CameronTec’s parent company, Orc Software. Indeed, E2E infotech’s origins a decade ago were the result of a joint venture between Orc Software and UniCredit’s UBM.

“With the uptake of the FIX protocol gaining momentum within India and the Middle East, these regions are increasingly presenting considerable opportunity for CameronTec,” says Anders Henriksson, CEO, CameronTec. “We are confident E2E infotech’s valuable local experience and knowledge in these and additional geographies will help provide the necessary support and technical delivery required to service the continuing global expansion of CameronFIX.”

“We are very pleased to be partnering with CameronTec and look forward to actively working with the financial industry’s most widely accepted FIX offering,” says Nirav Shah, CEO, E2E infotech. “The continued growth we see in electronic connectivity within emerging markets such as India and the Middle East means these regions continue to close the gap on broader FIX trading practices evidenced in more developed markets.”

During the course of its commercial life, many technology companies have developed long and successful partner service offerings around the CameronFIX Engine. These include Japan-based MetaBit and South African-based Peresys. For a full list of authorised CameronFIX partners refer to CameronTec Partners

View financial TV coverage of the CameronTec / E2E announcement.

CameronTec will be exhibiting at the upcoming FST Expo in New York, June 22 – 24, booth # 1416A.

About CameronTec

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company.

About E2E infotech

E2E infotech, a subsidiary of aurionPro Solutions Limited, is a company registered in UK, and provider of services and solutions in the area of Capital Markets. For nearly a decade, E2E infotech has focused on Trading Systems integration and enhancements, market data connectivity, development and testing of solutions for algo trading, front-office support, and system development and consulting around FIX protocol.

E2E infotech is wholly owned subsidiary of aurionPro, a publicly traded technology company providing software products and expert level consulting services to an extensive global customer base in financial services and banking domain. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, aurionPro was recently recognized by Deloitte as the 6th fastest growing technology company in India and 49th across the entire Asia Pacific region. aurionPro has demonstrated consistent revenue and income growth year over year since its inception in 1997 and employs more than 1100 individuals across Asia, Europe, and the United States.

www.aurionpro.com

For further information:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445
Maneesh Mehra, E2E infotech, +44 (0) 208-331-2459

Lasalletech Partners with CameronTec

London & New York: Tuesday 23 March 2010 — CameronTec, the financial industry’s leading provider of FIX infrastructure and connectivity solutions, today announced during the FIX Protocol EMEA Conference in London a partner agreement with US-based Financial Information eXchange (FIX) adoption specialists, Lasalletech.

Headed by founding FIX Protocol member and current co-chair of the FIX Protocol’s Americas Regional Committee Jim Northey, Lasalletech will provide global professional services for CameronTec around its flagship product CameronFIX; universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications.

“As FIX pervades all tiers of the market and performance and security imperatives press on all participants, vendors must step up to ensure FIX remains attainable for all. Today’s announcement illustrates CameronTec’s commitment to provide the broader financial community with a sharper customer-centric focus and more dedicated resources to achieve this,” says Max Colas, Chief Product Officer of CameronTec. “Many firms will welcome the possibility to tap Lasalletech’s line of effective and affordable tools and FIX expertise to certify, manage or fine-tune their CameronFIX deployment.”

“We are very pleased with the reintroduction of the “Cameron” moniker in the industry and the focus CameronTec will bring to one of the industry’s most widely installed and successful FIX product offerings,” says Jim Northey, Co-founder of Lasalletech. “Our partner agreement with CameronTec builds upon our past successes with Orc Software especially in terms of custom exchange gateways. Our CameronTec partnership greatly complements our recent announcement of reseller agreements for our products with Chelmer in Asia and the middle east and Macdonald Associates in EMEA.”

CameronFIX today is the outcome of 12+ years continuous investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on all five continents, and an increasing number of boutique firms seeking high standards for FIX, use CameronFIX for their high performance FIX applications. What is clear and apparent for most, is the criticality their FIX applications will play in their pursuit of liquidity amid continued market fragmentation and the emergence of new venues.

During the course of its commercial life, many technology companies have developed long and successful partner service offerings around the CameronFIX Engine. These include Japan-based MetaBit and South African-based Peresys. For a full list of proven CameronFIX partners refer to CameronTec Partners.

During the FIX Protocol EMEA Conference CameronTec will preview CameronFIX 7, the outcome of a 3 year development roadmap for improved scalability, enhanced experience and generational renewal resulting from significant improvements to the defining aspects of the software, and leveraging industry standards for Java programming, integration and performance.

About CameronTec

With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do, CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm.

CameronTec is an Orc Software company.

About Lasalletech

The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC was founded in 2006 by father and son team of Jim and Jacob Northey. Lasalletech is focused on delivering expertise in the high tech finance industry while developing products that make deploying large financial applications easier. Lasalletech provides a suite of tools designed to lower the cost of FIX adoption and usage. Having worked closely with the FIX Protocol Ltd. in developing the FIX and FAST specifications, both Jim and Jacob have great insight into the current implementations as well as where the two standards are heading. The Lasalletech FIX Workbench suite follows their successful introduction of their commercially available DataSheet development framework and their open source OpenFAST library.

www.lasalletech.com

For further information:

Jacob Northey, Product Manager, Lasalletech, +1 (906) 483 3800
Karyn Hanks, Marketing Department Inc. for Lasalletech, +1 (906) 483 2000
Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer, CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445

Orc Software establishes focused CameronFIX subsidiary, CameronTec

London, New York, Hong Kong & Stockholm: Tuesday 2 March 2010 — Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading and connectivity, today announced the establishment of a dedicated CameronFIX subsidiary to be known as CameronTec.

Recognizing the increasing importance FIX will play in the worldwide financial industry, the new focused organization will provide greater responsiveness, while continuing to access and benefit from resources of the broader Orc group.

Orc Software acquired CameronFIX in 2006 through its purchase of software technology company Cameron Systems. Then and increasingly so now, CameronFIX is universally regarded as the reference standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications. It is the only long-established, FIX engine that continues to deliver significant version upgrades year after year.

“The establishment of CameronTec reflects our conviction that customer needs, marketing and sales initiatives, as well as the further development of the CameronFIX offering will be best served by a dedicated organisation,” said Thomas Bill, CEO, Orc Software. “There are obvious synergies between the various Orc technologies, and we will continue to fully leverage these.”

The flagship CameronFIX engine today is the outcome of 12+ years continuous investment in FIX performance, scalability, interoperability and robustness. Larger investment firms, brokers, exchanges and regulators on all five continents use CameronFIX for their high performance FIX applications. What is clear and apparent for most, is the criticality their FIX applications will play in their pursuit of liquidity amid continued market fragmentation and the emergence of new venues.

“For our existing CameronFIX customers as well as the broader financial services community this is a particularly positive development as it signals a sharper customer centric focus, dedicated resources, a more nimble engineering foundation and a renewed strategy for the continued strengthening of the CameronFIX Engine,” says Anders Henriksson, CEO of CameronTec.

Steve Christinson, CTO of CameronTec, comments: “In line with our commitment to deliver continuous and significant product upgrades, the imminent CameronFIX 7 release will address real-time operational requirements. Going forward, CameronFIX users will be able to not only safely modify their configurations in real-time, but also to configure, manage and monitor their entire park of FIX engines through industry-standard JMX. This development strengthens the already operationally robust and highly performant CameronFIX Engine with an advanced makeover. In keeping with our engineering strategy, we are also continually looking for ways to further improve performance particularly in the area of our pure software High Availability solution.”

Leading the operation and playing significant roles in the growth of CameronTec will be Anders Henriksson as Chief Executive Officer, Steve Christinson as Chief Technology Officer, Max Colas as Chief Product Officer and Annie Walsh as Chief Marketing Officer; representing former senior and executive management of Orc Software. Steve Christinson and Annie Walsh additionally held senior management positions with CameronFIX founding company, Cameron Systems. The collective experience of these individuals means the firm opens its doors with over 20 years experience in FIX and specifically CameronFIX applications and performance.

CameronTec has been operational since January 2010 with a dedicated team of seasoned professionals with extensive backgrounds and expertise across all elements of the global financial landscape — trading, sales, product development, customer service and of course, technology. To serve a growing global customer base, CameronTec operates from its offices in London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney and Stockholm.

About Orc Software

Orc Software (SSE: ORC) is the leading global provider of powerful solutions for the worldwide financial industry in the critical areas of advanced trading and low latency connectivity. Orc’s competitive edge lies in its depth of knowledge of the derivatives trading world gained by deploying advanced solutions for sophisticated traders for over 20 years.

Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide the tools for making the best trading and connectivity decisions with strong analytics, unmatched market access, powerful automated trading functionality, high performance futures and options trading capabilities, ultra-low latency and risk management.

Orc’s customers include leading banks, trading and market-making firms, exchanges, brokerage houses, institutional investors and hedge funds.

Orc provides sales and quality support services from its offices across EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific.

www.orcsoftware.com

For further information please contact:

Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer
CameronTec +44 (0)7748 633445

Cognitive Capital deploys CameronFIX for FIX connectivity

Chicago, 31 August 2009 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading and connectivity, today announced that Cognitive Capital, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm, has deployed Orc CameronFIX for low latency market connectivity as well as Orc Trading for Risk Management. The order was booked in Q2 2009 and the contract is based on Orc’s licensing subscription model.

Cognitive Capital is using Orc CameronFIX to support their low latency, high frequency trading strategies by providing high performance FIX connectivity between their algorithmic trading systems and various equities markets including NASDAQ and NYSE Arca Equities. Their demanding trading environment requires a robust and scalable solution that can handle a large trading volume today and grow with their business in the future. Cognitive Capital will also use Orc Trading to support their trading with position management information.

“Low latency and high performance are critical aspects of our business. Orc CameronFIX has proven to be a solution with excellent performance that will help us continue to grow our business,” notes Aaron Scamehorn, Chief Technology Officer for Cognitive Capital.

“Orc Software focuses on high-performance solutions and we are pleased that Cognitive Capital, with their demanding low-latency trading strategies, is able to meet their needs with our solutions,” comments Marty Leamy, President, Americas for Orc Software. “Firms, like Cognitive Capital, with these types of high performance trading requirements are our ‘sweet spot’, and we are happy to have them on board as a client.”

The world’s leading banking and financial firms rely on the high performance trading capabilities of Orc CameronFIX - the only globally proven FIX platform for proprietary trading firms, brokers, fund managers, exchanges and software vendors across the securities, investment, banking and finance industries.

Introducing CameronFIX 6.4 for greater performance and improved performance management

SIFMA Technology Management Conference, New York, June 22, 2009 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading and connectivity solutions, announces the release of Orc CameronFIX 6.4 which includes specific work in improving performance metrics and insight.

Orc CameronFIX 6.4 is the result of continuing work to provide clients with an array of specific tools to improve the performance of Orc CameronFIX in their unique deployments. Orc CameronFIX 6.4 delivers the following features in its performance tuning toolbox:

Faster Processing: Users can now enable a new thread model which can dramatically decrease the latency observed for each message;
Accurate Performance Investigation: Users can more effectively investigate the major contributors to overall latency thanks to granular message timestamping.
Performance management for the “Real World”: Thanks to flexible message representations, best practices guidelines and configurable core optimizations, users of Orc CameronFIX are now best equipped to address the specific performance issues of operational environments, from garbage collection spikes to optimized code-writing. More, they can even leverage the capabilities of their trading environment to further improve their performance.

Daniel Burgin, CEO of Metabit, comments, "We have been very impressed by the performance of Orc CameronFIX 6.4. In our testing, we found the new version to be an improvement over already excellent performance. It is great to see Orc continually investing in their technology to stay ahead of the pack."

Max Colas , Senior Product Manager at Orc Software, notes, “Claims of silver bullets for performance are typical of earlier generations of FIX engines but they fail to deliver outside the labs. As providers of a fourth-generation engine, we empower our users with an advanced toolbox of very specific tools to finely tune the already superior capabilities of our technology. This release is the result of hand in hand work with our clients to address with a round of performance ammunition the real issues they face.”

“6.4 delivers on our continuing investment in performance management to serve the global CameronFIX community,” comments Joacim Wiklander, VP of Product Management at Orc Software. “With today’s greater volatility and greater market movement, clients need to be able to improve their performance in their unique environment and achieve real results to be successful. Orc CameronFIX 6.4 provides the tools required to meet this need.”

The world’s leading banking and financial firms rely on the high performance trading capabilities of Orc CameronFIX - the only globally proven FIX platform for brokers, fund managers, exchanges and software vendors across the securities, investment, banking and finance industries.

Orc Software adds CameronFIX Strategic Partner in New Zealand and Australia

Hong Kong & Sydney, Tuesday 16 December, 2008 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity solutions, today announced a reseller agreement with New Zealand-based financial services solutions provider Chelmer.

Chelmer has provided trading systems, software development, consultancy and support services to the New Zealand and Australia financial services community since 1988.

The partner agreement enables Chelmer to resell the Orc CameronFIX solution and to provide additional consultancy services and support to customers in New Zealand and Australia.

CameronFIX is the high performance, low-latency FIX Protocol solution used by leading global Sell-side and Buy-side firms for messaging, order routing and market data alike. FIX is no longer just a means of enabling out-of-the-box connectivity; instead it should provide the best of both worlds in terms of standardization and performance.

“One of Orc’s key global business strategies is to partner with reputable regional financial solution providers to further facilitate the continued geographical uptake of Orc’s solutions, ”says Greg Chambers, President, Orc Software, Asia Pacific. “We welcome New Zealand firm Chelmer to the Orc partner program, confident they will provide quality additional services and support for our shared customers in the region.”

“Orc Software has an excellent market reputation for providing optimized, robust FIX connectivity,” says Andy Robertson, Managing Director, Chelmer. “Partnering with Orc provides Chelmer with an advanced FIX gateway and monitoring together with the expertise that many industry participants require. The open technology standards used by Orc CameronFIX is consistent with our own and enables us to build our own applications on top of Orc’s best-in-class order routing for back office trade handling and settlements. We look forward to a mutually beneficial partnership that will produce valuable business benefits and operational enhancements for our customers in New Zealand and Australia.”

About Chelmer

Chelmer is a New Zealand-based company specialising in financial services solutions. Formed in 1988 to provide services and support of front end trading systems used by the New Zealand banking community, Chelmer has grown into New Zealand’s leading systems integrator, consulting company and technology supplier to the wider financial services industry.

Since 1999, Chelmer has been 50% owned by staff and 50% owned by the publicly listed global registry company, Computershare (CPU.AX). This combination provides the benefits of stability, strength and recognition of a global organisation with the expertise and knowledge of local management.

Chelmer is an active member of the FIX Protocol organisation, and has provided FIX consultancy and development services to leading Exchanges, buy side and sell side clients worldwide.

CameronFIX 6.3.1 delivers Optimized FAST and further FIX Monitoring Improvements

New York, NY – Wednesday November 19, 2008 - Orc Software, the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity, today announced during the FIX Protocol organization’s Electronic Trading Conference in New York the release of Orc CameronFIX Version 6.3.1. This latest release provides significant performance enhancements around Orc’s FAST capabilities, FIX monitoring through the Orc Dashboard, and further developments for improved Orc System and CameronFIX integration.

FIX/FAST is the new industry standard developed by the FIX Protocol Organization specifically for the transmission of market data, and designed to drastically reduce end-to-end latency and improve bandwidth scalability. "Orc CameronFIX version 6.3.1 is an important milestone in our evolution towards a true fourth generation FIX engine, leveraging FAST technology to deliver new levels of performance to our customers," says John Cameron, Chief Technology Officer for Orc Software.

The new enhancements available in Orc CameronFIX version 6.3.1 include:

Optimized FAST performance. Orc CameronFAST is benchmarked at three times faster than OpenFAST and significantly faster than CME Reference FAST. Optimization allows orders and prices to be transmitted at greater speeds resulting in processing larger volumes of data, faster.
Optimized FAST components inside the CameronFIX Universal Server. The deep integration of compressed binary FAST technology and datatypes into the universal server, initiated with the release of CameronFIX 6.3, has now been extended to message processors and adapters.
Improved Monitoring through the Orc Dashboard enables firms to achieve unprecedented flexibility in the organization of data for efficient monitoring of the largest global CameronFIX deployments.
Enhanced Risk mitigation through role based access control, better enabling firms to protect best execution policies relying on critical market links and demonstrating compliant traceability of all management actions globally.
Improved Orc System integration resulting in select CameronFIX market access via Orc’s extensive market gateways. Some Orc clients are already using this offering for select access to markets such as CBOT, CME, Eurex, HKFE, ICE, IDEM, Euronext.liffe (London, Paris) SGX and TSE.

“With optimized FAST capabilities accessible to CameronFIX users, Orc delivers a new reference to the industry for high-volume, high-frequency, high-performance global electronic trading. Never has robust, scalable technology been so needed than in the current volatile markets,” says Joacim Wiklander, Vice President Product Management at Orc Software.

“Delivering optimized FIX requires high levels of expertise, as does delivering insightful, effective FIX monitoring. As CameronFIX development produces more complex optimizations, and as risk control peaks at critical in the financial industry, only the makers of CameronFIX can achieve the sophisticated monitoring needed to make the best of CameronFIX,” says Max Colas, Senior Product Manager at Orc Software.

“With our ambitious Dashboard program, users won’t need to rely on second-guess generic monitoring achieved by third-party systems,” adds Colas. “Today’s news of Orc’s investment in the Dashboard monitoring program represents only the beginning of its long-term commitment to reliable, high-performance monitoring.”

Orc Software is a Premier Member of the FIX Protocol organization and is actively involved in the development of the standard. Members of Orc’s development and technical teams are active members of the FAST protocol working group.

Orc provides connectivity solutions for new DIFX trading platform

Stockholm, SWEDEN, Monday September 8, 2008 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity solutions, today announced an updated market gateway to the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) and its new OMX X-Stream trading platform. Orc Software is one of the first certified vendors for the new DIFX platform.

Since the DIFX went operational 2005, the exchange has experienced explosive growth. The DIFX currently lists shares, structured products, Sukuk (Islamic) and conventional bonds. The exchange plans to introduce new asset classes shortly, such as equity derivatives, as well as increase listings in its existing equities trading.

“Orc provides advanced trading solutions and liquidity access to our members, while the exchange also relies on Orc’s CameronFIX solution as a part of our new trading platform,” said Dean Noble, Vice President, Head of Market Operations DIFX. “The high performance and proven reliability offered by Orc makes their new market gateway an ideal choice for DIFX trading members and market data providers, as they prepare for the next-generation X-Stream trading platform.”

Orc Liquidity Access provides traders with the complete solution for fast, reliable access to derivatives and cash markets globally. Orc Liquidity access provides access to 100+ low latency markets via membership, and enables exchange non-members to reliably connect to 90+ markets worldwide.

“The DIFX is at the center of a booming financial market, and their demand – as well as support – for Orc technologies is a milestone for our efforts to advance Orc’s business in the Middle East region,” said Anders Henriksson, President Benelux, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, Orc Software. “As the DIFX develops and expands into advanced derivatives trading, their members and clients will increasingly rely on high-performance connectivity, which Orc will be ready to provide and support locally.”

Orc Software Offers Integrated FAST Solution in Latest Version CameronFIX 6.3

London, New York, Stockholm, and Hong Kong – Wednesday 11 June 2008 - Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity, today announced the release of Orc CameronFIX Version 6.3. This release provides significant enhancements including complete integration of the FAST standard into the Orc CameronFIX Engine.

The new enhancements available in Orc CameronFIX Version 6.3 include:

Integration of FAST into the CameronFIX Universal Server and the CameronFIX Market Data Server provides full CameronFIX functionality with the FAST standard
Alternate Session Viewer on GUI allows users to quickly see detailed information on their current FIX sessions
Integration components with Orc architecture further facilitate the use of CameronFIX with the Orc Trading suite of applications
Now built for Java 5+ allowing clients to utilize the latest Java updates

“With the integration of FAST into our flagship CameronFIX Universal Server, we are able to deliver to our customers a unique FAST solution that is not a bolted-on product, but is truly an integrated part of the Cameron FIX Universal Server,” notes Joacim Wiklander, VP of Product Management at Orc Software.

The integration of FAST into CameronFIX allows customers to leverage the same flexible architecture of message processors, technology adapters, and CameronFIX options with FAST connectivity. FAST becomes an additional inflow/outflow of messages from the CameronFIX Universal Server with all of the market-leading capabilities offered by the CameronFIX Universal Server.

FAST was developed by the FIX Protocol organization to bring the benefits of standardization to market data and deliver optimized performance for the exchange of electronic financial information. Built around a data compression algorithm, it significantly reduces bandwidth requirements and latency between sender and receiver. FAST works particularly well at improving performance during periods of peak message rates.

In addition to the integration of FAST into the Orc CameronFIX Universal Server, Orc Software has also developed the CameronFIX Accelerator program. This program optimizes a CameronFIX implementation resulting in latency reductions of up to 80%.

Open Link to Distribute Orc CameronFIX

SIFMA Technology Management Conference Week, New York – Monday, June 9, 2008 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity, today announced that Open Link Financial, Inc. ("Open Link") has signed a license to distribute Orc CameronFIX to clients with Open Link’s solution suites.

Open Link, provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software solutions, offers worldwide financial institutions front-through-back office solutions for supporting trading and settlement of Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Commodities transactions. Open Link will use Orc CameronFIX to enhance the ability to connect to third party systems and exchanges, leveraging Open Link’s integration tools, especially its highly available and scalable Connex offering.

“Orc CameronFIX has proven itself in the market and we are pleased to make it available with our solution suites,” notes Kevin Hesselbirg, CEO of Open Link. “Our clients demand reliable and high performance solutions, and distributing Orc CameronFIX with Open Link is another way for us to meet this demand.”

“Open Link’s financial markets solution has enjoyed considerable success, and we are pleased that they’ve chosen Orc CameronFIX to deploy with their applications,” notes Steve Lukes, VP of Americas Sales for Orc Software. “Orc CameronFIX has become the industry standard in FIX solutions, and we expect Open Link’s clients to see tremendous value through their use of Orc CameronFIX.”

The world’s leading banking and financial firms rely on the high performance trading capabilities of the Orc CameronFIX - the only globally proven FIX platform for brokers, fund managers, exchanges and software vendors across the securities, investment, banking and finance industries.

About Open Link

Founded in 1992, Open Link is a leading developer of cross-asset trading, risk management, and related operational and portfolio management software. Open Link’s diverse client base of over 125 customers worldwide includes 10 of the top 25 largest energy companies by market capitalization, eight of the largest financial institutions and seven of the largest central banks, as well as major hedge funds and public utilities. Headquartered on Long Island, New York, and with offices in New York, Houston, London, Berlin, Vienna, São Paulo, and Sydney, Open Link has 560 employees worldwide.

www.olf.com

ICAP Utilizes Orc Software’s CameronFIX and CameronFAST to Support FX Trading over FIX Protocol

Chicago & New York – Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity, today announced ICAP, the world’s premier interdealer broker, is utilizing Orc Software’s CameronFIX and CameronFAST solutions for its foreign exchange (FX) trading capabilities.

ICAP, which has a long history in FX and operates the leading FX trading platform EBS, is using Orc’s CameronFIX Universal Server for its advanced FX order flow and connectivity, and Orc’s CameronFAST solution for high performance market data distribution using the FAST protocol. Orc Software finalized and booked the deal with ICAP in Q3 2006, for production go-live later in 2006.

“CameronFIX is helping us deliver to our customers a superior FIX solution for FX trading that provides extremely low latency,” notes John Schoen, Regional Product Manager - Americas at ICAP. “In addition, CameronFAST gives us the ability to stream FX market data over a FIX session.”

“ICAP is a valued customer and we are delighted that they are using the CameronFIX Universal Server and CameronFAST for their requirements,” said George Wishart, Sales Director for Orc Software. “Orc, as an active global member of the FIX Protocol organization, is committed to the expansion of FIX. FAST is an excellent example of the FIX community working together to improve the protocol for all users. Orc will continue as a leader in support of these standards.”

The FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) has further enhanced support for FX trading with the release of FIX 5.0 in January 2007. In addition, the FPL’s new FAST compression provides support for high volume streaming data, such as market data.

CameronFIX is the globally proven FIX connectivity solution used by leading financial institutions and exchanges worldwide. The CameronFIX Market Data Server enables the streamlining of multiple market data vendor feeds converted to the single FIX format.

About ICAP

ICAP is the world’s premier voice and electronic interdealer broker and the source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. The Group is active in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, energy, foreign exchange and equity derivatives. ICAP has an average daily transaction volume in excess of $1.5 trillion, more than 50% of which is electronic. ICAP plc was added to the FTSE 100 Index on 30 June 2006.

www.icap.com

LiquidityHub Selects CameronFIX to provide FIX-enabled Fixed Income Derivatives Trading Capabilities

London UK, Thursday 28 June, 2007 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading, market making and brokerage, today announced LiquidityHub has selected the CameronFIX Universal Server for FIX order flow and connectivity, and the CameronFIX Market Data Server for high performance streaming of market data.

LiquidityHub, a consortium of leading investment banks in the fixed income markets for the aggregation of liquidity and market data in support of electronic trading, will deploy Orc Software’s CameronFIX solution to ensure a high availability trading environment via compliance with the FIX protocol messaging standard.

Robert MacLeod, CEO of LiquidityHub said: “Our aim is to provide the fixed income market with a multi-dealer electronic trading solution that allows unprecedented access to deeper liquidity. We have chosen the CameronFIX high-performance FIX gateway and protocol application as part of our policy to use best of breed technology.”

“Today’s announcement signals the first significant usage of the FIX standard for fixed income derivatives trading,” said Arthur Rank, Orc Software’s CameronFIX Sales Director for Europe. “LiquidityHub marks a dramatic shift in the traditional fixed income market and we are very pleased to be working together to provide the FIX connectivity and market data requirements for this central pricing aggregator.” CameronFIX is the globally proven FIX connectivity solution used by leading financial institutions and exchanges worldwide. The CameronFIX Market Data Server enables the streamlining of multiple market data vendor feeds converted to the single FIX format.

LiquidityHub facilitates the distribution of liquidity for electronic trading and market data through electronic distribution channels, and is not itself a trading platform.

About LiquidityHub

LiquidityHub was established in 2006 by leading banks in fixed income for the aggregation of liquidity and market data in support of electronic trading. The banks that own LiquidityHub are ABN AMRO, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, and UBS. LiquidityHub plans to aggregate liquidity from participating banks using fair trading standards and protocols. LiquidityHub will facilitate distribution of liquidity for electronic trading and market data through electronic distribution channels but will not itself be a trading platform. LiquidityHub will also support efficient electronic post-trade processes.

www.liquidityhub.com

OpenLink Selects CameronFIX for Findur Trading Application

SIFMA Conference Week, New York, NY, Wednesday 20 June 2007: Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading, market making and brokerage, today announced global market solutions provider OpenLink has licensed the CameronFIX Universal Server for FIX order flow.

OpenLink, provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software solutions, offers worldwide financial institutions the Findur Front-to-Back office suite for supporting trading and settlement of Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Commodity, and Energy transactions.

CameronFIX, Orc Software’s globally proven FIX connectivity solution used by leading financial institutions and exchanges worldwide, will provide Openlink with the capability for delivering trade messaging over the Financial Information eXchange protocol.

“Uptake of the FIX protocol continues to expand into new geographies and to support additional asset classes and areas of the trade process,” said Martin Koopman, President Orc Software North America. “Support for FIX is increasingly a mandatory requirement for financial institutions investing in new trading applications and we are pleased to have such a top-class organization like OpenLink utilizing our product.”

David Buksbaum, CTO of OpenLink says, “CameronFIX is the high performance FIX platform we require with architecture that simplifies integration with our existing architecture. CameronFIX is the flexible FIX platform that enables us to support order flow over the industry standard FIX protocol.”

BIDS Trading Selects CameronFIX to provide FIX Connectivity for their Alternative Trading System

SIFMA Conference Week, NEW YORK, NY – Tuesday June 19, 2007: BIDS Trading the newly formed alternative trading system (ATS) designed to increase competition and liquidity in the U.S. equity block trading market, announced today that they have signed an agreement with Orc Software (SSE: ORC). Orc Software, the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading, market making and brokerage, will provide BIDS Trading with their CameronFIX Universal Server for FIX order flow and connectivity.

“As the use of custom algorithms continues to proliferate, it is no surprise that this newly formed ATS, BIDS Trading, has selected our proven FIX application to further enhance its block trading offering,” said Martin Koopman, President Orc Software North America. “We are excited to be providing FIX connectivity to the BIDS ATS and we look forward to working with BIDS and its members, many of whom are already familiar with the benefits associated with the CameronFIX platform.”

“CameronFIX is widely recognized for its reliability and high-performance market connectivity. In addition, it has the flexibility to easily integrate with our existing architecture,” said Tim Mahoney, CEO of BIDS Trading. “We look forward to working with CameronFIX to support our clients’ order flow over the industry standard FIX protocol.”

The BIDS ATS will be accessible to both the buy-side and sell-side firms that want to trade large blocks through continuous order matching and trade negotiation. Use of the BIDS ATS as a block trading service will not be exclusive or subject to volume commitment and each participant may continue to use any ATS, ECN or exchange service that supports the trading needs of its customer base.

CameronFIX is the globally proven FIX connectivity solution used by leading financial institutions and exchanges worldwide.

About BIDS Trading, L.P.

BIDS Trading, L.P. is a registered broker-dealer and the operator of the BIDS Alternative Trading System (ATS), which was designed to bring counterparties together to anonymously trade large blocks of shares. Developed by a consortium of leading financial services firms, the BIDS ATS resolves the classic paradox of the block trader – the need to find legitimate trading counterparties without prematurely revealing trading intentions.

BIDS Trading is a joint venture of: Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC), Citi (NYSE: C), Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS), Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB), The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NITE), Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH), Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), and UBS (NYSE: UBS). The BIDS ATS will be open to all qualifying broker-dealers and their institutional clients, subject to basic credit and regulatory requirements.

www.bidstrading.com

Orc Software Releases CameronFAST for Delivering FAST-Encoded-FIX

SIFMA Conference Week, New York, Monday 18 June, 2007 – Orc Software, the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading, brokerage and connectivity, today announced the release of CameronFAST — the reliable and fast industry standard implementation of the FAST protocol (FIX Adapted for STreaming).

"Orc Software is taking a leading role in providing global customers with FAST encoded FIX," says Orc’s Chief Technology Officer, John Cameron. "CameronFAST will be highly valued by firms looking to get ahead in the latency and bandwidth race. Potential users include exchanges, market data providers and algorithmic trading applications, where reliable compression of high volume market data, for distribution or consumption, is paramount."

“Smaller transaction messages and faster execution will drastically lower their costs for exchanging market data. The very high performance-enabling FAST Protocol has already proven to be a highly efficient solution for spiraling market data volumes, and is being adopted by the world’s leading exchanges.”

FAST was developed by the FIX Protocol Limited organization to bring the benefits of standardization to market data and deliver optimized performance for the exchange of electronic financial information. Built around a data compression algorithm, when it is correctly implemented, it significantly reduces bandwidth requirements and latency between sender and receiver. FAST works particularly well at improving performance during periods of peak message rates.

CameronFAST follows the proven CameronFIX technology. It is an open architecture framework enabling ease of integration with other applications. It is delivered with useful sample FAST applications built using the framework. These are the FASTEncoder, FASTDecoder and FIXFASTProxy. CameronFAST works equally well with any FIX or non-FIX application.

Existing Orc solutions such as Orc Trader, Orc Liquidator, CameronFIX Universal Server and CameronFIX Market Data Server, will be CameronFAST-enabled by deeply integrating it within their core architecture. All Orc applications will be internally optimized for FAST and this will be available as an option for customers during Q4.

CameronFAST is 100% FAST 1.1 compliant and includes full XML template support.

Nordea integrates to Orc ExNet using CameronFIX

STOCKHOLM & LONDON: Monday February 5, 2007 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading, market making and brokerage, today announced Nordea, the foremost financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region, will offer FX execution on the Orc ExNet to ExNet participants, commencing Q1. Nordea will use CameronFIX to establish FIX connectivity including executable streaming rates to customers via ExNet as well as other ECN's, multiportals, treasury systems and market places.

Orc ExNet provides fund managers with non-membership access to all major liquidity pools, including official exchanges and ECNs. CameronFIX is the globally proven FIX connectivity solution used by the leading financial institutions.

“We are pleased to work with Orc Software to broaden our execution services towards ExNet participants,” said Kenneth Steengaard, Head of Nordea e- Markets. “In an increasingly fragmented FX market it is important for Nordea to connect to a variety of execution venues and we look forward to growing our business through this partnership. We have chosen CameronFIX due to its market leading position and we are confident that CameronFIX will provide us with the operational stability and the scalability we are looking for.” “Orc Software is pleased to be working alongside Nordea to provide leading edge trading enhancements to help grow their business,” says Joackim Lantz, Managing Director Sales Nordic, Orc Software. “Today’s announcement further demonstrates Orc’s market leading technology and its ability to deliver trading enhancements that place customers, such as Nordea, in a number one market position.”

About Nordea

Nordea is the leading financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region, making it possible for our customers to reach their goals by providing a wide range of products, services and solutions within banking, asset management and insurance. Nordea has around 10 million customers, more than 1,100 branch offices and a leading net banking position with 4.6 million e-customers. The Nordea share is listed on the stock exchanges in Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen.

www.nordea.com

Exane BNP Paribas switches to Orc Software’s CameronFIX platform

LONDON & STOCKHOLM: Monday February 5, 2007 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading, market making and brokerage, today announced Exane, a leading independent European investment firm, has deployed for its cash equity business, which trades under the name of Exane BNP Paribas, the CameronFIX platform to provide FIX protocol connectivity for receiving equity order flow from its worldwide institutional customers.

The CameronFIX platform is also used by Exane BNP Paribas across its business to provide support for Trade Advertisement and Indication of Interest networks and point to point clients, as well as a FIX gateway for its middle office allocation services.

Guillaume Lacronique, Head of Equity Trading Technology for Exane BNP Paribas says, “Exane’s switch to CameronFIX was motivated by the fact that it is used by so many of our Buy Side customers and most of the global trading community. We needed to be able to quickly adapt to client specific requirements, which has proved very easy to do with the CameronFIX platform. CameronFIX is the stable, high performance FIX platform Exane BNP Paribas can rely on. The implementation was very straightforward - its architecture made it easy to integrate with our existing systems and get up and running in production. CameronFIX has given us a flexible FIX solution that enables us to perform all our Buy Side operations with relative ease.”

“FIX is not new to Exane BNP Paribas,” says Arthur Rank, Head of CameronFIX European Sales for Orc Software. “This is now their second implementation of the FIX protocol so they had a clear understanding of their trading performance requirements and needed a solution that would grow with their business. We are pleased that CameronFIX was able to deliver to their exact specifications.”

About Exane

Exane is a leading independent investment company in Europe, specialising in three businesses:

Cash Equity, under the Exane BNP Paribas brand,
Equity Derivatives, and
Asset Management.

Exane offers its clients a high value-added service built on expertise in research. The group’s client base is worldwide and essentially institutional.

With 800 employees, the Group is present in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Geneva, Milan, New York, Singapore and Zurich.