Type Public limited company Industry Software Revenue 295.5 million GBP (2015) Founded 1981 | Traded as LSE: FDSA Operating income Headquarters London, United Kingdom | |
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Key people John Hamer - Chairman, Chris Aspinwall - CEO, Andy Skelton - CFO Products Trading & investment management systems, analytics & market data Stock price FDSA (LON) 2,552.00 GBX +30.00 (+1.19%)10 Mar, 4:35 PM GMT - Disclaimer CEO Chris Aspinwall (Jul 2001–) Profiles | ||
Fidessa on equities episode 3
Fidessa group plc is a British-headquartered company which provides software and services, such as trading and investment management systems, analytics and market data, to buy side and sell side clients in the financial services sector.
Contents
- Fidessa on equities episode 3
- Fidessa on equities episode 1
- History
- Market penetration
- Products
- References
The company is headquartered in London with offices in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, São Paulo, Woking and Belfast. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250 Index.
Fidessa on equities episode 1
History
The Company was founded in 1981 as Intercom Data Systems (IDS): it was later renamed royalblue Group plc, and consisted of two separate operating divisions, royalblue Financial and royalblue Technologies.
With the group's core trading platform, Fidessa, being better known in the market place, the Royalblue Group plc changed its name to Fidessa Group plc following shareholder approval at the AGM held in April 2007.
In November 2008, Fidessa launched its Fidessa Fragmentation Index. In April 2011 Fidessa launched the Tradalyzer that provides detailed trading analysis.
Market penetration
As of early 2009, around 70% of all securities transactions in London were reportedly handled by Fidessa systems.
Products
In addition to a trading platform, Fidessa hosts a broker neutral FIX-enabled execution network. This has a large number of brokers connected to it and is similar to other inhouse FIX networks, such as the LSE Hub, the SunGard Transaction Network (STN) and Thomson Reuters subsidiary TradeWeb's Autex Trade Route.