PORTWARE DRIVES DEBATE ON MULTI-ASSET CLASS TRADING AT TRADETECH PARIS, 23 APRIL 2008.

London, UK, 17 April 2008 - Jim Feingold, global head of Sales and Marketing and co-head of Product Strategy at Portware, a leading provider of trading and strategy automation technologies, will take part in a panel discussion on Multi-Asset Class Trading - The Opportunities And Challenges For The Trading Desk at this year’s TradeTech event at the CNIT Centre, Paris, on 22 - 25 April 2008.

The panel discussion, which will take place at 17.20 on 23 April, will examine the increasing trend towards multi-asset class trading, the technology, tools and skill sets required to effectively trade across asset classes.

Jim Feingold comments: “In today’s marketplace, firms need flexible solutions that can address their evolving trading requirements. For many firms, this includes the ability to trade multiple assets in a single trading environment. While some firms adopt multi-asset systems to support advanced cross-asset algorithmic trading strategies, such as index arbitrage, most view multi-asset systems in the context of firm-wide strategic initiatives – integrated toolsets that can drive workflow efficiencies, scale easily, and meet future regulatory and structural changes head on.”

Joining him in the discussion will be Octavio Marenzi, president & CEO, Celent; Betsy Anderson, head of Centralised Dealing, Resolution Asset Management; and Andrew Munro, global head of Trading, Henderson Global Investors.

TradeTech Paris 2008, 22 – 25 April 2008
PARIS EXPO - CNIT
2 Place de la Defense
92053 Paris-La Défense cedex
France

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Email: portware@cre8results.com         
Tel: +44 (0)20 7734 9199

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.