Belzberg Technologoies

Belzberg Technologies Inc. is a provider of technology-based brokerage services, trading equities and options through Electronic Brokerage Systems, Belzberg Technologies' wholly owned broker-dealer. Electronic Brokerage Systems is a member of most North American stock exchanges, options exchanges and clearing organizations, including the NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOE, NSCC and OCC. Using Belzberg's suite of integrated trading tools and network connectivity, Belzberg's customers have direct access to all North American equities and options markets. The firm's client-base includes over 200 leading U.S and international brokerage houses and financial institutions. Belzberg Technologies is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Ticker-BLZ) - additional information is available at www.belzberg.com.

DebtX

DebtX is one of the world's leading full-service loan sale advisors for commercial, consumer and specialty finance debt. DebtX helps commercial banks, insurance companies, investment banks, government sponsored enterprises and other institutions increase profitability and reduce risk by offering comprehensive loan sale advisory services that create liquidity in an institution's loan portfolio. DebtX operates the largest marketplace of buyers and sellers of commercial loans and offers a variety of innovative information and technology services. DXMark(R) is the first objective valuation of commercial real estate portfolios based on actual secondary market loan sales. DXOpen(R) is a family of deal management products used by syndication and agency services professionals to distribute and administer their syndicated or participated loans.

Financial Technologies

Financial Technologies Group is a US$1.8 billion (market capitalization as on 30th June'08, global leader in creating and operating new generation tech-centric, financial markets that not only builds unprecedented shareholder value through a non linear business model, but also in the process transforms economies, empower the common man and change lives.
We have set up 9 exchanges in India, Dubai, Mauritius and Singapore among equities, commodities, currency and bond across Africa, Middle East and South East Asia.

Our endeavour is to build the largest exchange network (liquidity platform) connecting fastest growing economies.
Our highly robust and scalable exchange and trading technology platform (Intellectual Property), coupled with deep domain expertise, gives us a decisive edge in driving mass disruptive innovation at a speed and cost of execution that are unmatched in the financial markets. This expertise uniquely positions Financial Technologies and helps create electronic, organized, and regulated financial markets for 'new asset classes' and 'new investor classes' that are either underserved or economically unviable to serve by traditional companies.

Our markets transform lives of people by democratizing global trade and economy and propagating the benefits of transparent price discovery, efficient trade execution, effective risk management, insurance against price volatility and access to structured finance. These benefits in turn create inclusive and equitable growth by unlocking value from the middle and bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.

Misys Midas Plus Selected by Mizuho

Mizuho Corporate Bank, headquartered in Tokyo, has selected Misys Midas Plus with Global Processing to support its ambitious international growth strategy. The implementation of the first site in Europe has been completed with all other operations to move onto the central hub individually. The integrated core banking solution will help Mizuho to deliver improved efficiencies and more informed decision-making within its commercial and investment banking operations and ensure a consistent level of customer service across the bank's global network.

Building on its strong client base, Mizuho's business strategy has two elements. First, the bank is combining its commercial banking and investment banking capabilities to offer its corporate customers a complete portfolio of services, including syndicated loans, M&A deals, leveraged finance, project finance, cash management and securities. Secondly, the bank is applying this business model on a global scale by extending the geographic coverage of its international network. Mizuho opened six international branches in 2006 and a further three branches in 2007.

Midas Plus with Global Processing will be used to centralise IT systems servicing branches throughout Europe. This will enable the bank to standardise business processes across its network, yet deliver the flexibility required to meet local regulatory environments and regional variations in business practice. Having a single system to support multiple branches will allow a single update to reflect changes into all the offices using Midas Plus with Global Processing.

By consolidating the IT infrastructure, the bank will streamline operations, deliver a consistent level of service to customers and improve the speed at which it can roll out additional branches. Midas Plus will reduce complexity and simplifying the bank's IT infrastructure, resulting in cost reduction, better access to information from across the business and a faster response to changes in the industry. Ultimately, it will substantially enhance how the bank delivers services to its corporate customers around the world.

Importantly, Mizuho executives will have an enterprise-wide view of the bank's management information and a much clearer picture of risk across the organisation. The ability to make more informed decisions based on a global perspective was a key requirement from the bank.

Graeme Beardsell, Head of Sales for Misys in Asia, adds, "We have built an excellent track record of providing a solution that enables banks to run their international operations with maximum efficiency and control. Our Global Processing facility within Misys Midas Plus will enable Mizuho to reduce the cost of operations considerably and provide the flexibility to explore new markets with minimal additional investment. We look forward to working with Mizuho in the future as we roll out the project."

Trading Shorts

Credit Suisse Eggers in Farsight Award
The Farsight Award is a project between the Universities Superannuation Scheme, Gresham College and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative, with support from Z/Yen Group Limited. The objective of the Farsight Award is to honour the best individual piece of analysis by an investment research institution that integrates traditional financial analysis with longer-term issues such as climate change, scarcity, corporate governance and human capital.

Waddell & Reed Selects Charles River
Charles River Development (Charles River), an award-winning provider of financial software and services to the global investment management community, today announced that Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company and its affiliates, which have $70 billion in assets under management, have selected the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) to provide a new portfolio management system, including for its equity, fixed income and foreign exchange operations.

QuantOffice Integrated with Vhayu Velocity Tick by Deltix
Deltix, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Vhayu Technologies, Inc. to provide the Vhayu Velocity™ tick database with Deltix QuantOffice™, enabling users to process, manage and store year’s worth of market data for optimized quant research analysis.“Vhayu’s enterprise class tick database increases the amount of data and intricate analytics available within Deltix QuantOffice/QuantServer product suite

RadarLite from SoftCapital
SoftCapital (SC), a leading independent software vendor, today announced the introduction of the company’s newest trading tool, RadarLite. Designed to run completely in a browser, behaving exactly like an installed application, as well as running on all operation systems aka. Windows, Linux and Apple.

Fair Value By Benchmark Indices
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced the results of recent quantitative research conducted by its Pricing and Reference Data business which compared international mutual funds with relevant benchmark indices. Through statistical analysis, the research revealed that comparing the performance of international mutual funds that use fair value adjustments .

Macalla Powers TSB Text Banking Service
Macalla, leader and innovator in mobile payment solutions, has announced the launch of permanent tsb's mobile banking solution powered by the Macalla Platform."We choose Macalla because of its combined mobile and banking experience. Our decision was a wise one as at each phase of the project their expertise was invaluable," said Tim Bicknell, Head of Current Accounts and Online Development, permanent tsb.

Cordys and CSC Alliance
Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management (BPM), has formed a strategic alliance with CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services, bringing together two of the major players within the BPM sector.The alliance will enable organisations around the globe to benefit from a new breed of innovative business process driven solutions, deployed on the Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP), and

EmployBridge Selects Sungards AvantGard
EmployBridge, a leading US provider of branded, industry-specific staffing solutions, has selected SunGard’s AvantGard to help automate and improve the efficiency of its order-to-cash cycle. The company will use the AvantGard receivables management solution to help improve cash flow, mitigate bad debt expense and minimize operational costs.Effective management of trade receivables is a critical area to target for liquidity management and process improvements

EMVCo Annual User Meeting Announced
EMVCo, the EMV standards body owned by JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc., has today announced plans to broaden industry participation in the development work of the organisation and establish a regular, formal dialogue between EMVCo and the global payments industry, through the launch of a new website subscription programme and annual user meeting. To be launched during the first quarter of 2009, a new subscription programme delivered through the EMVCo website

TTT Moneycorp Real-time Messaging
SMA Financial, SWIFT Regional partner for UK, Eire and Channel Islands today announced that TTT Moneycorp (Moneycorp), the leading international foreign exchange and payments specialist, has moved to real-time message processing over the SWIFT network using MQ Series.To cope with rapidly expanding business volumes and to automate its payment, banking and treasury services, Moneycorp initially implemented the SMA Bureau Service to send payment messages over the secure SWIFT network.

Avadhi CEO Appointed

The former Chief Information Officer of The Clearing Corporation (previously The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation) in Chicago, Brett F. Paulson, has joined Avadhi Finance and Technology, Inc., a vendor of multi-asset trading platforms.
Avadhi founder, Paresh Malde, announced Monday, September 22, 2008, that Paulson was appointed CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Malde remains company President, Board Chairman and will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer.
Paulson, a 30-year veteran in financial and technology service industries, led The Clearing Corporation to a historic restructuring of the capital and shareholder base. As President and Chief Operating Officer, Paulson helped orchestrate the convening of some of the world's largest members of the investment banking community in order to create innovative solutions aimed at the OTC clearing space as well as the exchange-traded derivatives marketplaces. Previously, Paulson held senior management roles at CS First Boston, IBM, Bank of America, Harris Bank and International Harvester. He holds an M.B.A. in Finance from DePaul University.
"Brett's industry leadership brings to Avadhi a significant moment in our rapid growth and expansion," said Malde of the privately held company, based in Okemos, Michigan. "His involvement and vision for the company is going to solidify Avadhi's position in the industry as a leading provider of trading solutions."

Wizetrade Group

Founded in 1999, The Wizetrade Group, LLP provides traders of all experience levels with a suite of software products and investor training classes that assist them with their trading selections. This suite of products includes Wizetrade(R) Stocks, Wizetrade(R) FOREX, Wizetrade(R) Options, Wizetrade(R) Commodities, CommandTRADE(R), CommandTRADE(R) FX, and the scanner tools WizeFinder(R), 4XTracker(R) and Option Hunter(R). Through Wizetrade TV and Wizetrade University, individual investors take advantage of a wide range of workshops, classes and online resources that enable them to make confident trading decisions. For more information about The Wizetrade Group and its products, visit http://www.wizetrade.com/

LPL Financial Launches Integrated Advisor Solution

LPL Financial Corporation announced today plans to continue to expand its product and service offering with introduction of an integrated advisor solution platform, supporting independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) and Hybrid (dually registered) advisors. This platform enables advisors to address all of their clients' commission and fee-based needs while also allowing them the flexibility to grow their independent RIA offering across any business model. LPL Financial plans to roll this offering out in late 2008.

LPL Financial will provide RIA and Hybrid advisors one of the most comprehensive offerings available, with access to a broad range of investment services and products, dedicated and experienced service staff, and best-in-breed technology. As part of the formal market rollout, LPL Financial will also be offering prospective financial advisors high-touch transition services to ensure a smooth on-boarding process.

"We view our continued expansion into the RIA and Hybrid markets as a key growth driver for the LPL Financial business, and especially our financial advisors' businesses in 2008 and beyond," said LPL Financial CEO, Mark Casady. "With this new offering, LPL Financial is redefining the idea of independent advice. This further demonstrates our commitment to provide independent advisors with a conflict-free and unbiased approach to allow them to grow their business on their terms."

The company has appointed industry veteran, Gary Gallagher, to Executive Vice President, Head of RIA Services. Based in Boston, Mr. Gallagher will report to Esther Stearns, President and COO, and is responsible for building out the RIA and Hybrid business at LPL Financial.

"We have tremendous confidence that Gary's experience in the RIA and Hybrid marketplace, combined with his impressive track record at a number of leading financial institutions, will allow us to build out an industry-leading offering that is critical to supporting this unique advisor group," said LPL Financial President and COO Esther Stearns. "The understanding and commitment Gary brings to this position underscore our continued dedication at LPL Financial to delivering the most choice and flexibility to our independent advisors."

Fidessa

Fidessa group is a supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for both the buy-side and sell-side globally. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero products are built on the clear vision of providing the richest functionality, coverage and distribution to the financial markets community.

Financial Objects in e-Portals

Financial Objects, announced a partnership with e-portals Ltd., a company focused on delivering innovative web-based treasury services. This alliance will see Financial Objects integrate e-portals' technology into its Banking solutions, enabling clients to better monitor and manage risk.

As part of the collaboration, Financial Objects will enhance its banking software to include e-portal Ltd's "Exposure Alert" product; a real-time, exposure-tracking desktop suite that alerts users to anomalies during operations. The product consolidates the available data within a financial institution and applies external market data to derive key risk and exposure indicators. The user can then set personal parameters for alerts that they wish to be notified of, including gaps, liquidity, FX positions, hedge positions and VaR.

"A lack of operational transparency has contributed to many of today's high profile corporate failings," says David Carruthers, group technology director at Financial Objects. "The combination of these products means that our clients can be the first to find out about any operational transactions that require attention."

Hal Hovland, CEO at e-portals Ltd., and the key architect of Exposure Alerts believes that technology can be exploited to reflect the working practices of today's senior management. "The product optimises the new wave of Microsoft technologies; designed to use Silverlight and Windows Sidebar® on Vista, or a proprietary program in XP. The product displays risks and exposures graphically, and allows drilldown for more detailed information. It is a perfect solution for today's busy executives."

Users in transit can also be alerted via SMS or to their Blackberry. The product is available to new and existing Financial Objects clients of ibis, ibis s2, activebank and Treasury via a simple interface to the alerting software.

Trace Financial

Trace Financial provides products and services to support the business operations of brokers, market makers, fund managers, banks and other financial institutions. Products include systems integration technologies and generic intelligent interfacing hub systems. In addition Trace Financial provides corporate actions management solutions for a range of customers in the financial community.