PORTWARE LEADS DEBATE ON ELECTRONIC TRADING AT TECHNOLOGY FOR THE BUY-SIDE EVENT.

Industry Experts to Discuss the Latest in Accessing Liquidity, Algorithmic Trading and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

London, UK - 27 March 2008, Stuart Adams, head of European operations at Portware, a leading provider of trading and strategy automation technologies, will lead a series of panel discussions on Electronic Trading at the Financial News Technology for the Buy-Side event on 2 April 2008, at The Savoy Place, London.
           
Industry experts will debate the current issues, technology trends and drivers impacting the buy-side. Topics within the Electronic Trading stream include: Direct Market Access, algorithmic trading and FIX, How to meet best execution requirements while using TCA, Identifying and accessing liquidity from both traditional and dark pools and Beyond equities – The next phase in algorithmic trading. The event will also includestreams on Derivatives and Systems and Data Management.

Stuart Adams, head of European operations, Portware comments: “This series of panel discussions aims to address the issues that have arisen in today’s complex, technology driven trading environment. Buy-side firms are keen to take advantage of everything technology has to offer and this event aims to ensure they are equipped to take advantage of the latest opportunities.”

To request a media pass please contact Nicolle Farthing or Viviana Vigano at portware@cre8results.com or +44 (0) 207 734 9199.

Technology for the Buy-Side
Wednesday April 2, 2008
The Savoy Place, London, UK,
WC2R 0BL

About Portware

Portware develops and sells multi-asset, automated and algorithmic trading software and solutions to the global securities marketplace. As the only wholly independent execution and order management trading systems provider, Portware supplies traders with true broker-neutral solutions to facilitate best execution. The company’s suite of products includes a trading platform which supports FX, Single Stock, Portfolio, Program, Pairs and Index trading coupled with a powerful black-box Algorithmic Engine, the Portware Strategy Server which offers a completely customizable central trade portal to conduct a comprehensive range of trade activity. Since the company’s launch in 2000, Portware solutions have been implemented at more than 100 firms worldwide, including quantitative hedge funds, traditional asset management firms and sell-side program trading desks.

Portware’s event-driven, multi-threaded architecture has quickly become the industry standard for high-frequency trading. On top of this architecture, Portware offers an extensible feature set tailored for different asset classes and trade styles, as well as tools for TCA, risk management and real-time reporting and a combination of pre-packaged and third-party algorithms and analytics.

Portware offers the ability to create proprietary algorithms to control every aspect of trade management or execution, from automated market-making, to hedging, crossing and full orderbook management. These strategies can be executed by traders from within Portware’s user interface or automated using the Portware Strategy Server, a high-speed algorithmic engine for execution and order management.