Partners

Orc Software’s partners are independent firms, located worldwide, that work closely with our company to provide services and solutions built on and around our leading advanced derivatives trading and connectivity solutions. Our partners have a high level of market expertise as well as knowledge of the Orc’s total offering, in order to support our customers and provide them with even greater value.

Partners

Alliances


E2E infotech (Global)

E2E infotech has been providing integration products and related professional services to clients of Orc Software since 2001. E2E is now part of AurionPro Solutions (www.aurionprosolutions.com) and specialises in providing integration of business processes with the Orc System. E2E and AurionPro offer client adaptations and professional services around Orc System and has developed a portfolio of standardized components for integration with the Orc System. These are cost-efficient alternatives which come with profession support and service. In addition, E2E and AurionPro offer solutions in outsourcing and IT professional services.


Infront (Global)

Orc Software has an agreement with the Norwegian software development company Infront that gives Orc Software global distribution rights for Infront's information and trading system The Online Trader, which is sold under the brand name Orc Online.

Infront is a provider of streaming information and trading solutions over the Internet to the financial equity markets. Infront provides private investors, banks, brokers and other financial institutions with cost-effective, flexible internet based solutions to drive investment decisions and order flow across new and existing electronic channels.


Reuters (Global)

Orc Software and Reuters have signed a software license and distribution agreement under which Reuters markets and distributes Orc Software products globally. Through the alliance with Orc Software, Reuters can offer brokers and other sell-side firms exchange execution capabilities that allow them to manage order flow and directly execute transactions on exchanges where they are a members. Reuters also sells and supports the Orc product set.

Reuters, the global information company, provides indispensable information that is tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. The company's information is trusted and drives decision-making across the globe based on Reuters’ reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. Reuters has 15,000 staff in 91 countries, including some 2,300 editorial staff in 196 agencies around the world, making Reuters the world's largest international multimedia news agency.


Industry Partners

FIX Protocol Limited (Global)

The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is a global messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions. FIX is a public-domain specification maintained and improved by the FIX Technical Committee, which receives its direction from FPL's international Steering Committees, the Global Steering Committee, and the various Working Groups comprised of industry participants such as fund managers, brokers, exchanges, and vendors. Cameron Systems is an active member of many FPL Working Groups.

Cameron Systems provides dedicated support for the FIX protocol and is a Premier Member of the FIX Protocol Organization.


Services Partners

Born Capital (Americas)

Born Capital provides numerous services to institutional customers including managed services of execution platforms, global co-location, infrastructure management, network management and technical and market support.

Born Capital has entered into an agreement with Orc Software to be their hosting partner, providing co-location and hosting facilities for access to global futures, equity and equity option markets. 

Hosting services are currently provided through data centers in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, London and Tokyo, with global 24x7 support provided from the Born Capital operations centers in Chicago and Charleston.  New data centers are planned for 2008 including Frankfurt and Hong Kong.


Brook Path Partners (Americas)

Brook Path Partners is active in consulting, training and research on the use of technology in all phases of the investment and trading lifecycle, from research and discovery through settlement and clearing and beyond to corporate actions and event processing.

Brook Path Partners offers FIX related consulting and training services designed to ensure that implementations are successful from the perspective of both business and technology goals. Their clients include buy-side and sell-side firms, trading platforms, product vendors and service providers.

A recognized authority on the use of financial protocols, Brook Path Partners actively contributes to the FIX, FpML and ISO 15022 XML standards organizations.


MetaBit Systems (Asia Pacific)

MetaBit Systems provides CameronFIX sales, implementation, training and support in Japan.

Based in Tokyo, MetaBit is an IT consulting firm focused on serving the financial industry. Established as a high quality niche product provider, MetaBit offers modularized financial software products to foreign and domestic firms. MetaBit focuses on FIX consulting and equities trading software solutions that link Buy and Sell side clients via FIX.

In addition to supporting CameronFIX in Japan, MetaBit's agreement with Cameron Systems also allows them to embed CameronFIX into their XiliX™ and MetaXL™ products. XiliX™ and MetaXL™, with CameronFIX embedded, revolutionize Japan's FIX world, enabling multi-broker trading and reducing transaction processing times, setting the foundation for shorter settlement cycles.


Mindwell

Mindwell and Orc Software have signed a Partner agreement under which Mindwell will provide advanced development and integration services for Orc users globally.

For the Orc Trading solution, Mindwell offers interfacing solutions and tailored application development services including cutting edge expertise in implementing proprietary Trading Strategies for Orc Liquidator. For the Orc Connect solution Mindwell offers FIX/FAST integration services for DMA and other connectivity requirements including best execution and increased internalization. 

Mindwell is a consulting firm with offices in Stockholm, Amsterdam and Zurich, focusing exclusively on system solutions for trading, risk management and back office processing. The accumulated experience from more than a hundred successful integration projects is embedded in Mindwell FastTrackTM, a module library of software components for rapid integration with market leading financial technologies including Orc Software.

Net DS Internet Solutions (Americas)

Brazil-based Net DS Internet Solutions, leading providers of Corporate Systems and Internet Solutions, is a reseller and support services partner for the CameronFIX platform in Brazil. Net DS' highly qualified professionals have developed quality service projects based on leading technologies over the past eight years. Its OMS solution, Home Broker, is utilized by Brazil's leading firms including the largest Broker in the region, Ágora Sênior. Using the CameronFIX platform, Net DS developed and implemented the FIX application connecting Brazilian Bovespa Exchanger and Ágora Sênior. Net DS is headquartered in Cotia, near Sao Paulo.


Peresys (Europe Middle East & Africa)

Peresys provides CameronFIX sales, implementation, training and support in South Africa.

With offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, Peresys provides specialised IT solutions to the retail and wholesale investment sectors of the financial services industry in South Africa. Peresys is a leader in the development and delivery of solutions particularly to stockbrokers and asset managers, with a specific focus on dealing systems, integration, research dissemination and Straight Through Processing.

Peresys' buy-side clients represent over 90% of assets under management and on the sell-side over 75% of value traded in South Africa.


Velocity Systems (Global)

Velocity provides global CameronFIX consultancy, implementation, training and support.

Velocity is a Financial Services software company with specialised expertise in the area of Foreign Exchange. With offices in London, Sydney and Adelaide, Velocity provides the e-commerce Foreign Exchange Platform for leading financial institutions.


Software Partners

Finansia (Americas)

Founded by a team of securities industry professionals, Finansia was established in 2001 as a solutions provider to the Capital Markets industry. The company is located in Toronto, Canada and has both corporately managed facilities as well as a network of affiliates that are engaged with us in functional partnerships. Finansia delivers front office/mid office systems that leverage and augment dominant back office systems and that address the industry-wide initiatives — straight through processing (STP), order management system (OMS), universal market integrity rules (UMIR), next day settlement (T+1) etc.

The CameronFIX Engine comes as an integrated component of Finansia's Allocationware platform STP for front and mid-office institutional trading operations.


Charles River (Global)

Charles River Development offers its 145+ asset management clients access to Orc CameronFIX Engine as an integrated component of its Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS).

Charles River is a provider of financial software and services to the global investment management, banking, pension, hedge fund, wealth management and insurance industries. Charles River IMS is a comprehensive software suite for all security types, comprised of three key components: Charles River Manager offers sophisticated tools for portfolio management including 'what if' analysis, modeling, portfolio rebalancing, and order generation; Charles River Trader provides order management, electronic trading, and liquidity access; and Charles River Compliance offers global, real-time, pre-trade, post-execution, and portfolio-level compliance monitoring.


Greenline Financial Technologies (Global)

Greenline Financial Technologies provides CameronFIX Sales, Consulting and Support in Chicago and beyond.

Greenline specializes in providing systemic innovation to the US and international financial services industry. Greenline emerged with the advent of the global electronic marketplace and has since distinguished itself as an industry leader in custom enterprise development for the world's premier financial institutions. Greenline's flagship product, VeriFIX, is recognized throughout the financial services industry as the most robust and feature-rich FIX testing/simulation tool available on the market. GFT complements VeriFIX with tools to assist companies throughout the certification and client support phases of their FIX initiatives. Greenline Financial Technologies is a Member of FIX Protocol Limited — North Americas.


Infocast Limited (Asia Pacific)

Infocast Limited provides CameronFIX sales, support, integration and consulting services for CameronFIX in Hong Kong.

Infocast specializes in the securities industry and provides a complete securities system — the Infocast Enterprise Solution — which includes multi-market order management, order routing, back office settlement and record keeping as well as a comprehensive information service. The Infocast Enterprise Solution developed by Infocast has proven itself in a number of brokerages in Hong Kong and has become a leader in the market.

Using CameronFIX, Infocast has also developed a FIX interface for the Singapore Stock Exchange's Trading System (SGX) plus FIX interfaces for various executing brokers for multiple market order routing. Infocast uses leading-edge technology and can create customized solutions based on their core products very efficiently, delivering new projects with a short time-to-market.


LatentZero (Global)

Cameron Systems provides the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) solution for LatentZero's Minerva Order Management System. LatentZero is a world-leader in providing buy-side front office technology for the global asset management industry.

Minerva, the 24x7 global order management and trading system, is a truly real-time platform, with highly configurable workflows and tradescreens designed to fully support trading of all instrument types (equity, debt, money market, mutual funds, derivatives and currency). Minerva offers full FIX support (with CameronFIX embedded), real time market data and easy integration with exchanges, ECNs and various liquidity sources. Minerva works seamlessly with any other front, middle or back office technology.


Transaction Network Partners

Peresys (Europe Middle East & Africa)

Peresys provides CameronFIX sales, implementation, training and support in South Africa.

With offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, Peresys provides specialized IT solutions to the retail and wholesale investment sectors of the financial services industry in South Africa. Peresys is a leader in the development and delivery of solutions particularly to stockbrokers and asset managers, with a specific focus on dealing systems, integration, research dissemination and Straight Through Processing.

Peresys' buy-side clients represent over 90% of assets under management and on the sell-side over 75% of value traded in South Africa.


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