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LONDON--The Dealing With Technology/Dealing With Risk 2001 exhibition in London this week features a wide range of technology for a bank's trading floor, including new products from Syntegra, Lucidity and Amulet Hotkey.

Syntegra is launching its latest voice integration system, ITS Myriad, which enables financial services firms to communicate with clients and partners using any channel. ITS Myriad supports multiple channels--integrating voice, web, e-mail, chat, mobile and other client systems--within a single desktop environment.

Lucidity will launch its global trading operations application, which offers a bank's traders and risk managers a global, real-time view of their positions, trading activity and market rates. Traders can gain access to the view through a hand-held device, allowing them to view their positions anywhere at any time.

In addition, Amulet Hotkey has teamed up with IBM to provide a complete remote PC solution for trading rooms, which it will be demonstrating at this week's event. The new solution, which has already been rolled out in Enskilda Bank's trading room in London, uses Amulet's AM2000 products to provide access to workstations remotely up to 250 meters. Amulet Hotkey will also launch the Smartloom cable management system at the show.

More than 30 other vendors will also be exhibiting at this year's event. DWT comes to The Brewery on Chiswell Street in London on Wednesday, April 4, from 8:30 am to 6 pm. Inside this issue, Trading Technology Week presents its readers with a directory of companies exhibiting at this year's show (see below).

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DWT Event to Feature Latest Vendor Products

IBM and Amulet are joining forces to host the Trading Now! showcase at DWT. The PC Remote Solution uses ultra-slim 1U workstations to deliver a powerful combination of benefits. These include more space, easier maintenance, better productivity and less downtime. Smartloom, Amulet Hotkey's new cable management system, puts an end to the cabling nightmare. It all means more space and time for profitable trading.

Anvil Software builds technologically advanced front-office systems that make trading faster and more efficient. It has a global client base of leading investment banks and financial institutions with installations on five continents.

Anvil will be demonstrating Denarius, a new breed of trading system. Denarius is multi-product, multi-entity, multi-site and multi-currency. It reaches beyond the trading desk and incorporates advanced order management, position management, sophisticated trade capture, superior risk and other reporting functionality. Denarius is easily linked to other systems, intranets/Internets and automated exchanges, enabling electronic trading and facilitating straight through processing.

Compaq will be demonstrating the latest in wireless access, security and PC technology:I-Paq Pocket PC hand-helds with one to two forms of wireless solutions; the latest Armada laptop with industry-standard wireless LAN; and the newest Pentium IV workstation with digital flat panel displays and advanced smartcard security technology.

CSK Software, a financial markets solutions company, helps the world's leading institutions deliver and employ critical applications reliably, rapidly and securely. It has a heritage that reaches back to the pioneering era when real-time financial data first made its appearance in the modern trading room. CSK Software is now building on its success by focusing on two business segments: ETS (Electronic Trading Systems) and EAI (Enterprise Application Integration).

EAI includes X-Gen, designed to increase straight through processing, including financial messaging--specifically Swift (Gold Accredited), FIX and XML.

ETS products are designed to manage and move trading data. Slingshot achieves intelligent streaming of data across the Internet/intranet. X Con provides enterprise pricing/validation models for FX, money markets and derivatives, while X Quote and X Route cover electronic exchange-based trading.

E-portals will announce the development of X-Treasury.net, a new family of products based upon the .Net Framework from Microsoft. Although the .Net development environment is currently only available from Microsoft in early beta form, E-portals will be demonstrating working prototypes of some of its derivative pricing and deal capture software, developed using this technology and written in the new highly productive C# programming language.

The company has also commenced the development of a range of components, web services and systems for the treasury functions within banks and corporations. The product design covers instrument pricing, deal capture, position keeping, risk management and client limit utilization. The products will be multi-currency, multi-branch, multi-location and be capable of producing integrated global information in real time. Access to all services, including support and maintenance, will be via secure and encrypted browser access.

Financial Objects is dedicated to the provision of advanced banking software and services to international banks, securities trading houses, building societies and corporates. In the field of Internet-enabled component-based applications, the group has one of the largest installed bases in the banking software package industry. Financial Objects will demonstrate the front office modules of Activebank.net--an advanced, component-based universal banking application. It provides real-time deal capture, pricing, position-keeping and risk management facilities, and it can also link to other systems, such as Reuters Dealing 2000-2 and EBS. It will also show Activebank Web--a framework and set of related services that allows the rapid upgrading of a bank's existing systems to support Internet delivery. The corporate web permits a bank's corporate clients to gain access to online dealing, pricing and related services.

Global Crossing Financial Markets provides a high-performance global extranet designed for the financial community and related service providers. With users in more than 44 financial centers worldwide and more than 1,500 customer access nodes, Global Crossing Financial Markets serves over 1,200 of the world's top financial firms. Global Crossing Financial Markets' offering also includes IPC Trading Systems. IPC's patented digital Alliance MX is the most widely installed voice trading system in the world. IPC's comprehensive portfolio also includes the IQMX next-generation trading system, Tradesmart CTI Solutions, infrastructure solutions and complete customer care programs. IPC focuses exclusively on the financial trading environment, designing, manufacturing, installing and servicing products that allow traders to communicate with each other instantly and reliably.

Hitachi Information Systems Group, a division of Hitachi Europe, will demonstrate for the first time in Europe its HD-6V Color Softkey Dealerboard with TFT color display. Designed to provide the benefits of a touch screen with the accuracy and speed of physical keys, this revolutionary product enables traders to react quickly to market changes. The HD-6V Color Softkey Dealerboard incorporates the following features: The TFT color display is easy to view and encompasses hard keys to ensure dealers can respond quickly and accurately with a clear indication of which lines are busy, on hold and in use. The 16 available colors mean that all keys are easily distinguishable, and the generous spacing between keys ensures accurate line access even at peak business times. The 860 telephone lines can be user-assigned with one of 20 different ring tones or 16 character names for easy prioritization. Designed for optimum speed and efficiency, the dealerboard incorporates free-seat networking and synchronization with your PC file manager as a standard feature. This allows users to move to a new position and download their personal profile within seconds, ensuring you have all your contacts close at hand. The color softkey dealerboard's compact design is less than 30 cm wide and provides optimum space efficiency on the dealing floor.

IBM and Amulet are joining forces to host the Trading Now! showcase at DWT (See related story, this issue). The PC Remote Solution uses ultra-slim 1U workstations to deliver a powerful combination of benefits. These include more space, easier maintenance, better productivity and less downtime. Smartloom, Amulet Hotkey's new cable management system, puts an end to the cabling nightmare. It all means more space and time for profitable trading. See IBM and Amulet Hotkey in The Lower Sugar Room at the Trading Now! showcase, where you can win an IBM ThinkPad.

Iris Financial delivers fully customized and flexible trading solutions across all asset classes. Iris systems capitalize on an open development platform, with object-oriented architecture suited to developing high performance n-tier client-based and web-based solutions. Rapid systems deployment is achieved using component architecture, which is 60 to 80 percent pre-written and fully tested. This allows Iris consultants to focus on building in tailored business logic to address specific client requirements. Founded in San Francisco, Iris operates globally, with development and sales offices in New York and London. The current client base includes 75 percent of the global top 20 financial institutions, and systems maintenance.

Kinecta is a provider of electronic business infrastructure and services for the establishment and management of business-to-business content networks. By supporting seamless information flow within and between businesses, Kinecta helps customers increase productivity and revenue, reduce costs and gain extended reach. Kinecta solutions target the content integration and distribution needs of enterprises across business and media syndication networks. Kinecta Interact is an award-winning infrastructure that provides end-to-end integration, automation and control of the movement of content. Kinecta Traffic Register enables businesses to measure the impact and value of their content throughout their content networks.

Lucidity Trading Systems will launch its global trading operations application, allowing a bank to support all of its trading rooms from a central set of servers. The Lucidity Trading System is a three-tier thin client/server architecture that uses Lucidity's proprietary application server software. It offers a bank's traders and risk managers a global, real-time view of their positions, trading activity and market rates.

Traders can gain access to the view through a hand-held device, so that they can gain access to their positions anywhere at any time.

Also on show are Lucidity Base, Lucidity's unique, adaptable platform for the global delivery of trading applications; Lucidity Trader, a comprehensive trade capture, position-keeping and monitoring system for a range of treasury instruments; Lucidity Risk, a global, real-time, risk monitoring system on the Lucidity Base platform; and

Lucidity Mobile, which enables wireless access to Lucidity's applications from hand-held devices such as the Compaq I-Paq.

Macalla Software is a provider of mobile e-commerce solutions for the finance and telecommunication sectors. Macalla operates globally from offices in London, New York, Madrid and Frankfurt, with its headquarters in Dublin. The company's secure mobile e-commerce product suite, Mobility, is at the core of its products.

Mobility is a next-generation modular, open software infrastructure for the secure, scalable and consistent delivery of information and transaction systems. It serves multi-device and digital channels. Mobility is real-time publish/subscribe and request/response enabled. It leverages Macalla's expertise with XML, Java and Internet technologies and professional services capabilities.

Midas-Kapiti International and ACT Financial Systems form a major part of the Misys Banking and Securities Group. They supply software applications to the banking and securities sector and have a track record in global reach, progressive development and clear strategic direction.

The companies offer a range of products. These include Web Centre, a generic e-business infrastructure enabling securities firms to provide online facilities, and Tropics/ E-Opics, a trading room system offering deal pricing, deal entry, a position keeping tool and dealing over the Internet. Market Watch is a highly scalable market data distribution infrastructure with associated applications and adaptors, while Rapide is a front-office trading system for agency and principal brokers.

Mutant Technology is an electronic business technology company that focuses on the wholesale financial markets. Thanks to its Network Trading Platform, companies can build business-to-business exchanges (Credit Trade and Secfinex are examples); manage treasury and risk with Enterprise Charms; and benefit from customized software development services.

Raft International supplies component-based rapid application development for financial institutions, specializing in the investment banking and wealth management sectors. It focuses on the provision of business consulting and the design, development and deployment of leading business solutions. The company is a Microsoft Managed Partner, and its component-based architecture is based on Microsoft's Windows DNA architecture. Raft International is listed on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Reuters (www.reuters.com) is a global information, news and technology group founded on its reputation for speed, accuracy and technological innovation. The company provides global solutions and technologies for the financial markets, including risk and trade management software.

Reuters will be displaying its 3000 Xtra market data display application, its Reuters Credit Internet-based global credit information service, its Kondor+ risk management system and the Reuters Portfolio Management System, a professional portfolio management system based on technology enabling portfolio managers and investment advisers to gain access to all relevant customer and portfolio information in real time. It will also be exhibiting its Reuters Internet Finance Platform, one of the software components of the Trading Solutions Architecture.

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Waters Training is pleased to announce the launch of its new online Trading Room Technology course. Users will be able to create a customized web-based electronic learning solution within minutes and deploy it over the Internet for their companies. For more information visit www.waters-training.com.

Staffware is a leading provider of business process automation software that enables organizations to automate and streamline complex business processes. This includes improving operational efficiency, increasing productivity, enhancing business agility and driving down operational costs. Through end-to-end process automation, Staffware significantly reduces operational risk by minimizing the risk of human error. It eliminates re-keying of data to help meet regulatory compliance. By interacting with existing business systems, Staffware minimizes manual intervention in front- and back-office systems, providing automated exceptions processing in an STP environment. When exceptions do occur, they are automatically routed to the right person or department for timely resolution.

Syntegra is showcasing its ITS Myriad integration framework for voice, web, e-mail, chat, mobile and other client systems--a desktop decision support environment designed to empower relationship management in the trading room (see related story, this issue). Also being premiered at the show will be Syntegra's Wireless ITS Myriad technology, which enables traders to stay in touch with their clients and keep track of market developments and activity on the trading floor anywhere at any time.

With its publish-subscribe, queuing and multicast messaging middleware, Talarian software solutions provide the ability to instantly distribute and exchange information--regardless of industry, platform, location or network. Through industries ranging from financial trading and telecommunications to aerospace and high-tech manufacturing to electronic business and the Internet, Talarian ensures the reliable and secure delivery of real-time information whenever and wherever it is needed.

Using Thomson's global information sources and trading links, and by developing products in partnership with clients, Thomson now offers a total equity solution.

Globaltopic.com is a cost-effective and portable browser-based product for market professionals outside the trading arena. Globaltopic Workstation is a 32-bit application that links data sets, displays and analytics, and it supports DDE downloading and service contention. Globaltopic Trader offers trading links to major stock exchanges and RSPs plus order routing, order management, position keeping and IOI messaging. Globaltopic Feed offers seamless integration into platforms and supports data cost control systems. Globaltopic COM-API, a rich programming interface, opens Globaltopic data for customized applications and Internet technology needs.

Wey Technology designs and develops a diverse portfolio of multimedia systems integration products targeted at providing the worldwide financial markets with requirement specific solutions, as approved by the world's leading market data providers. Multi-functional HK2000 and EK2000 keyboards provide hot switching and sharing between several market data systems; screen reduction through local switching; centralized system management; and soft programming and interchangeable hardware. Workstation-remote transmission technology supports single and multi-screen workstations across twisted pair and fiber optic cabling, including USB and DVI support. Centralized video/data switch technology can provide intelligent patch panels and simple low-cost 'moves and changes'; it is highly modular and compact and is low-maintenance.