10th July, 2006
Insinger de Beaufort signs for Fidessa® multi-asset trading platform

London – 10 July 2006 - royalblue (LSE:RYB), provider of Fidessa, today announced the signing of Insinger de Beaufort, the Anglo-Dutch banking group, as the first client for its recently launched multi-asset trading platform. The fully hosted Fidessa platform will provide Insinger de Beaufort with cross-asset trading, order management and middle-office functionality, for 60 users located in their London offices.

Launched this June, Fidessa’s multi-asset trading platform provides robust, super-resilient trading across asset classes along with smart order flow, integrated market data, risk management and connectivity to an extensive network of financial players across a global market.

Martin Burton, director at Insinger de Beaufort, comments: "With Fidessa’s multi-asset platform we will be able to replace a number of existing disparate systems, and so streamline and integrate our different activities to capitalise on trading opportunities and provide a better service to our clients."

Insinger de Beaufort recently undertook an extensive review of its systems following its acquisition of Monument Securities Ltd. Central to its requirements was a system that could operate across the different offices of Insinger de Beaufort and, crucially, provide one combined platform for its cash equities and derivatives business lines.

Steve Grob, head of derivatives at Fidessa, adds: "This deal confirms that our multi-asset strategy is on the right course and validates our belief that there is a real market demand for our unique combination of value-added market data, multi-asset trading systems and global connectivity."

Insinger de Beaufort will also be rolling out Fidessa's multi-asset Workstation solution to its own clients as part of the deal. This will allow their buy-side clients to electronically route multi-asset order flow directly through to Insinger de Beaufort. The Fidessa Workstation provides an integrated execution management and market data solution for buy-side traders.

The Fidessa product suite provides integrated trading, market data and connectivity solutions to over 8,500 users at 200 institutions worldwide and is used by over 85% of global, tier-one equity brokers. Fidessa’s connectivity network provides links to over 600 buy-side institutions, 140 brokers and 67 exchanges globally.

The group operates through three main business lines, focussing on Private Banking, Asset Management, both centred in Amsterdam and Institutional & Corporate Clients, centred in London. Insinger de Beaufort also has offices in: Eindhoven, The Hague, Geneva, Luxembourg, Rome, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Insinger de Beaufort, as an independent group, offers its private clients a broad range of products and services, from integrated private banking, private equity and stock broking to a full range of manager selection funds. The offering to institutional clients varies from asset management, equity and bond broking and research to mid market corporate finance services.

The group operates through Bank Insinger de Beaufort N.V. and its subsidiaries. Insinger de Beaufort Holdings S.A., the ultimate parent company, is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Additional information on the group and its services can be found by visiting Insinger de Beaufort's website at www.insinger.com.


About Fidessa group

Fidessa group is a world-leading 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.

The Fidessa suite is used by 85% of tier-one, global equity brokers providing sophisticated multi-asset trading, market data, order management and execution capabilities to all tiers of the sell-side.

The Fidessa LatentZero suite is used by the world’s largest asset management firms through to smaller specialist managers and hedge funds, and provides comprehensive portfolio analysis, real-time P&L, what-if analysis, investment compliance, order and execution management, and post trade processing tools, across all asset classes, to all tiers of the buy-side.

Fidessa’s global network carries over 130 million messages a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, Indications of Interest and FIX Allocations between over 1,800 buy-sides and 310 brokers across 100 markets worldwide.

Head-quartered in London and with offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto and San Francisco, Fidessa group serves 22,000 users across 600 clients globally. Fidessa group was founded in 1981, has revenues of around US$350m, employs over 1,200 people and has been fully listed (LSE:FDSA) since 1997.

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Aspectus PR (PR Agency)
+44 (0) 20 7487 8443
alastair@aspectuspr.co.uk

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