Connected Trading Communities
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Exclusive Partnership with Infront Widens Market Data Options in SA
Johannesburg, South Africa - Peresys, the technology solutions provider to the financial markets have partnered with Infront and secured the exclusive distribution rights of The Online Trader – a financial information terminal with a combination of worldwide real-time prices, analysis and financial news - under the Peresys branded name See More Markets.
Sanlam to exclusively use Peresys Messaging Hub
20 November 2009 Even against the backdrop of a tough trading market, some companies are earning long-term commitments, building exclusive relationships and establishing innovative partnerships. Peresys is one such company, having recently secured an exclusive three-year contract with Sanlam Investment Management (SIM), with SIM embodying the quintessential client of the Peresys connected trading community.
Africa's Equity Trading Community Open For Business
8 June 2009 Peresys have extended their reach into Africa, making exchanges across the continent accessible to traders virtually anywhere in the world.
Stanlib Connects to Peresys FIX-Enabled Trading Community
Johannesburg, South Africa - Stanlib, the third largest fund manager in South Africa with over 400 000 individual clients, recently joined the Peresys connected trading community enabling it to electronically route orders via the FIX Protocol to broker counterparties virtually anywhere in the world.
Peresys assists The DNA Project with awareness, exposure – and a R260 000 donation
2 December 2008
Peresys, the technology solutions enabler for the financial markets, and the Mike Thomson Change a Life Trust, established by Computershare SA, recently donated over R260 000 to The DNA Project, a Section 21 company committed to developing South Africa’s criminal DNA profiling by expanding the national DNA database.
The Peresys CSI initiative was established with the mission statement to make a meaningful contribution to develop opportunities for all South Africans' right to a better life in our country. In conjunction with our clients and through partnerships with specialist charity organizations we have decided to direct our efforts and funds towards projects or initiatives that have the potential to make a meaningful and lasting difference in combating the number one cause of stress, emigration and negative sentiment in our country - crime.
Hermes is a complete product offering that includes front-office functionality for execution, program trading; matching, price discovery and trade capture application. An added bonus is that all of these applications have the option of being FIX-enabled.
MetaBit, Japan and Peresys, South Africa link FIX Networks for Bi-Directional Trade Flow
Tokyo, Johannesburg, March 19, 2008
MetaBit, Tokyo, a leading provider of FIX connectivity in Japan and Asia has certified its MLH FIX Network with Peresys' Business Process Network (BPN), Africa's pre-eminent FIX services and connectivity provider. Respective clients can now access equities and derivatives listed on the JSE (Johannesburg Securities Exchange) as well as all of Japan's securities exchanges for both Care and Direct Market Access orders.
Peresys offers perFIX Trader as an algorithmic trading platform
Peresys, supplier of technology solutions to the financial markets, has made significant inroads with their latest offering, perFIX Trader.
Peresys appoints senior executives
Peresys, supplier of technology solutions to the financial trading communities worldwide, has recently announced the addition of two senior executives to its management team.
Solutions to match growth of securities lending market
Peresys has enjoyed a position of strength in the securities lending industry since inception. Although it was originally the organisation's Slams application (Security Lending Administration Management System) that drew the attention of lenders and borrowers alike, Peresys has gone on to develop offerings that facilitate integration and automation in all segments of the industry's trade cycle.
Slams now packaged with Connex a server administration and middleware toolkit.
As part of the securities lending business and development strategy, the Slams system is now packaged with server administration and middleware toolkit, Connex.
Celebrating a decade of success
29 October 2007
Pioneering, entrepreneurial and unafraid to take risks – these are the qualities that have helped a fledgling company flouting an unfamiliar concept develop into a major player in the financial market trading software market in just 10 years. Ashley Mendelowitz, CEO of Peresys, reflects on a decade of success.
Securities Lending and Borrowing: International Trends and Influencing Factors
30 October 2007
Arguably the hottest topic at the International Securities Lending Conference held in Monaco this year was active extension strategies and their effect on securities lending and the industry’s operational landscape. One of the major sources of portfolio management inefficiency is the long-only constraint. Restricting the investment managers’ ability to only express views on possible underperformers diminishes the potential for return. Active extension strategies redress this inefficiency by incorporating both long and short positions into portfolios in order to increase the opportunity set for potential returns.
Connectivity to Peresys BPN grows in leaps and bounds
The Peresys Business Process Network (BPN) is a managed environment that provides a hosting platform for Peresys applications that make us of the FIX protocol.
Peresys celebrates 10 years with Financial Mail corporate survey
2007 marks the 10th anniversary for Peresys as a company and we reflect on 10 years of creating sustainable trading communities both locally and internationally through technology solutions.
Peresys adds curency futures to perFIX
18 June 2007
Peresys, a provider of equities and derivatives trading solutions as well as messaging applications and services in South Africa, has entered into an exclusive partnership with two major banking institutions, Standard Bank and Investec, to provide their broker intermediaries with a fully automated offering for trading currency futures. Currency futures started trading with the US dollar / Rand future on Yield-X, the Johannesburg Securities Exchange's (JSE's) interest rate exchange on Monday, the 18th June.
Peresys Charity Golf Day
29 May 2007 Photos from the event on the 29th May 2007.
Deutsche SA Prime Broking selects Peresys for FIX connectivity to clients
28 February 2007
Cape Town FIX Conference moved to 17 April
28 February 2007
Peresys selected to provide Latent Zero with FIX conformances globally
28 February 2007
Peresys WMS, Maia’s replacement is on track for delivery
28 February 2007
ODDO Asset Mgt turns to LatentZero™
London, 19 February, 2007
Metropolitan Asset Managers connects to Peresys Network for Equities Order Routing
7 February 2007
Metropolitan Asset Managers (MetAM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Metropolitan Holdings Limited (an empowerment financial services holding company listed on the JSE Securities Exchange with a market capitalisation in excess of R7 billion) has recently connected to, and is now rapidly expanding its usage of the Peresys Business Process Network (BPN).
SA Buy side adoption of RIXML gathers pace
30 January 2007
Hermes enhanced to make Single Stock Futures trading easier
30 January 2007
MAIA replacement in Beta testing
30 January 2007
Market-maker replacement goes live
30 January 2007
SA Buy sides route FIX allocations via perFIX
30 January 2007
SLAMS middleware layer deployed at first sites
30 January 2007
Flextrade named "Best vendor for Algo Trading" for 2006
22 November 2006
FlexTrade Systems, the pioneer in multi-asset algorithmic execution management systems, today announced it has been named by FX Week magazine as the Best Vendor for Algo Trading in the world.
Peresys launches a new dynamic company website
8 November 2006
Peresys, a global technology solutions provider to the financial market trading community, announced today the official launch of their newly designed and improved web site www.peresys.com
Standards and Protocols - The SA Way
In 2000, the South African Reserve Bank published a lengthy report on financial regulation in South Africa and a key component of that report was the assessment of the financial markets regime in SA, and how it had changed over the previous two decades and how it could potentially change in the coming decade. The report is notable in that certain changes predicted have happened and so it makes its veracity more compelling when looking at the next 10 years or so, especially if you are a participant or service provider to the SA financial markets.
Peresys extends global reach for electronic execution with Bear Stearns
Peresys, a global technology solutions provider to the financial community has connected Bear Stearns to the Peresys Business Process Network (BPN) which would enable Bear Stearns to access electronic order routing services to the South African market.
South Africa’s RMB asset management picks LatentZero’s Capstone front-office suite
Next-generation front-office system deployment is the way forward for South-African fund management companies
Peresys announces a new version of perFIX trader
Peresys, a global technology solutions provider to the financial community this month announced a new version of
perFIX trader after its initial launch almost a year ago.
Peresys partners with Traderforce on worldwide FIX integration
15 August 2006 Peresys, a South African based software solutions provider to the financial community today announced
an agreement with Financial Innovative Technology (FIT), the distributor of Traderforce to integrate the
Peresys perFIX© HUB to the Traderforce ASP trading front end giving Traderforce buy side customers FIX
enabled access to their sell side counterparties.
OTC market gets a kick-start in straight-through-processing requirement
14 October 2005 OTC derivatives are a growth industry worldwide. Last year they had a total notional value of more than $248 trillion, which was almost 13% up on 2003. The biggest derivatives market is in interest-rate products. In 2004 it grew by 13.6% to $ 187 trillion, most of it being in swaps.
Peresys launches new Execution Management System (EMS) for buy side participants requiring Order Routing or DMA
7 Oct 2005 Peresys’ latest offering is an Execution Management Systems (EMS) for order routing and direct market access (DMA) for the small to medium size equity portfolio and asset managers. The solution provides buy side clients the ability to manage their orders electronically from a Peresys hosted application. perFIX trader uses the industry standard messaging protocol FIX, and the Peresys Business Process Network (BPN) to deliver a simple, robust, and cost effective solution to the market place. These solutions include a Peresys managed application FIX engine.
Peresys Exceeds 150 Connections To Its BPN
29 Aug 2005 Johannesburg, South Africa, August, 29, 2005. Peresys, the South African based financial market trading technology provider, has recently successfully established over 150 connections to its BPN (Business Process Network). The BPN enables South African trading participants and their offshore counterparties to send and receive pre and post trade related messages in the equities, derivatives and fixed income markets.
Transaction Network Services Penetrates South Africa with Peresys
16 August 2005 Transaction Network Services (TNS) today announced a partnership arrangement with Peresys, South Africa’s leading provider of technology solutions to financial markets, enabling TNS’ global financial community to trade with Peresys’ South African clients.
Prescient goes live with Peresys' Hermes
25 August 2005 JSE member Prescient Securities recently migrated successfully to the Peresys JSE SETS trading and OMS platform, Hermes.
Peresys to offer CameronFIX powered FIX Services to European Securities Industry
London, UK: Wednesday July 27, 2005 — Leading global provider of FIX-based messaging platforms, Cameron Systems
together with its South African-based partner, Peresys, today announced details of a London-based FIX HUB service
developed to meet the trading requirements of the European securities industry. Powered by CameronFIX technology, the
Peresys HUB service will facilitate connectivity and trade related messaging, using the FIX protocol standard, between buy and sell side participants in the equities, fixed income and derivatives markets.
Cameron Systems Announces CameronFIX Version 6.2
SIA Conference New York: Tuesday June 21, 2005 Cameron Systems, the leading global provider of FIX protocol trading solutions today announced details of the latest CameronFIX Platform release. CameronFIX Version 6.2 provides solutions for risk and compliance, workflow management, advanced execution and networks/hubs.
Reuters joins forces with peresys to enable south african cross-border equities trading
18 May 2005 Global information company Reuters, (LSE: RTR.L, NASDAQ: RTRSY) today announced an agreement with Peresys, a South African based trading solutions provider to the financial markets, to link the two parties' electronic trading communities to enable cross border trading both into and out of South Africa. The partnership is now live and new clients have signed up for the service.
Peresys offers an end-to-end software solution for the Securities Lending Trade Cycle
Slams featured in an overseas publication
New release of Greenjar
April 2005 The latest release of Greenjar, Peresys' award winning RiXML research management application is now available. Greenjar Version 3.1 is web-based and designed to create, facilitate and manage broker research in the investment community.
RMB completes SLB system migration to SLAMS
22 February 2005 South African investment bank Rand Merchant Bank's Securities Lending Division recently completed its migration to the Peresys SLAMS system.
Historic first FIX conference in Africa 9 March 2005
FIX Protocol Limited, the global organisation which regulates and manages the FIX protocol, will be hosting the first FIX conference in Africa on 9 March 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa.
HSBC implement SLAMS in South Africa
Johannesburg, 31 January 2005 The HSBC Group has recently implemented Peresys’ securities lending system, SLAMS across its South African branch’s lending desk.
Thomson Financial signs agreement with Peresys
8 November 2004 Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC, NYSE: TOC) and leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, today announced an agreement with Peresys.
Citi Australia Gets New Link to ASX
2 August 2004 Citigroup Australia has gone live with new connectivity to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) that is based on the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol.
Data Standards Bring Value, Say SIA Panels
14 June 2004 Industry experts discussed the status of standards in research and reference data at two SIA show panels last week.
Cameron Systems works with South African partner to help the Bond Exchange of South Africa
5 June 2004 Cameron Systems works with South African partner to help the Bond Exchange of South Africa deploy FIX for fixed income
In conjunction with its partner in South Africa, Peresys, Cameron has worked with BESA in its project to provide FIX connectivity to more than 55 exchange members
Electronic Trading Newsflashes
3 June 2004 The Bond Exchange of South Africa (BESA) went live with its new BTB Trade Capture system using the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) as a standard for the fixed-income market.
Bond Exchange Selects CameronFIX to Pioneer FIX for Fixed Income in South African Financial Markets
Tuesday June 1, 2004 The Bond Exchange of South Africa Adopts Financial Information Exchange Protocol and Deploys CameronFIX for its BTB Trade Capture System to provide FIX connectivity for 55+ Members of the Exchange.
South African bond market begins shift to FIX
01 June 2004 The Bond Exchange of South Africa (Besa) has switched over to a new FIX-based trade capture system, using Cameron Systems FIX Engine to implement the protocol.
