Fidessa group plc (LSE:FDSA), took top prize at Financial News’s sixth annual ‘Awards for Excellence in IT’. A panel of independent industry experts assessed all the competing systems on the market and concluded that Fidessa offers the best sell-side trading platform.

The Fidessa OMS provides robust and sophisticated multi-asset trading to 85% of global, tier-one equity brokers, combining smart order management with fully integrated algorithmic trading and market data services. The product suite serves around 22,000 users at 600 clients globally.

Fidessa LatentZero, one of the world’s leading providers of front-office software to the buy-side, has announced that it has integrated access to algorithms from RBC, Instinet, Knight/EdgeTrade and DnB NOR Capital Markets via Minerva, its Order and Execution Management System (OEMS). This latest round of integrations gives Minerva OEMS users access to the global algorithmic trading services of more than 20 major brokers around the world.

Fidessa group plc (LSE:FDSA) the world leading provider of trading systems, market data and global connectivity, today announced that it has launched a fully integrated international trading service for the non-member trading of equity instruments listed on international exchanges. This service is available immediately through Fidessa’s hosted trading platform in the US.

LIM Advisors Limited, the Asian-based multi-strategy investment group with approximately US$1.5 billion in assets under management, has selected Fidessa LatentZero’s front office suite, Capstone™, to provide support to front office analytics, order management, trading and compliance. The solution will cover equities, listed and OTC derivatives, fixed income and FX.

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), provider of the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero trading, market data and global connectivity solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, to offer users of the Fidessa hosted trading platform in Europe real-time connectivity to Omgeo OASYS Global, the electronic trade allocation and confirmation solution for brokers/dealers, investment managers and custodian banks around the world.

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), provider of the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, today announced that their systems’ interfaces with the NYFIX Euro Millennium dark liquidity pool are now live. Customers of Fidessa’s trading platform, as well as clients of Fidessa LatentZero’s Execution Management Service (EMS) and Order and Execution Management System (OEMS), Minerva, will now have direct access to a truly open European dark pool for listed cash equities.

Fidessa group plc (LSE:FDSA) the world leading provider of trading systems, market data and global connectivity, today announced that BNY ConvergEx Group, a leading provider of global agency brokerage and investment technology solutions, has expanded its offering on Fidessa's network to include: DMA, care order, algorithmic trading solutions and access to ConvergEx CrossSM.

Fidessa LatentZero™, one of the world’s leading providers of front-office software to the buy-side, today announced that Credit Suisse has become the first broker to have FX smart routing and algorithmic execution strategies integrated into the Minerva order and execution management system (OEMS) with AES FX. The deal further enhances Minerva’s position as a full-asset class trading platform, and ensures that Fidessa LatentZero’s FX-focussed clients can take advantage of the minimised workflow error, increased speed, and improved usability offered by the Minerva OEMS.

Tokyo Seminar for the Buy-side Brings Together Region’s Leading Players

Fidessa LatentZero’s Japan office has held its first buy-side seminar in the Asia-Pacific region. More than 100 market-leading individuals from client firms, brokers, partner vendors and the media heard presentations from senior Fidessa LatentZero executives, as well as a panel discussion between leading investment managers. The event was co-sponsored by Fidessa LatentZero partners Omgeo KK and FXall.

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), the leading provider of multi-asset trading systems, market data and global connectivity solutions, today announced the addition of connectivity to Instinet’s KoreaCross, the Korean market’s first securities crossing network.