Fidessa

Fidessa offers two solutions: the eponymous sell-side platform most commonly associated with the name and LatentZero, specialised in complete, cross asset class, front-office solutions for the buy-side community. 

Royalblue rebranded themselves to Fidessa following the strength of their application, which has now expanded to offer market data from a wide range of sources, and to support derivatives markets beyond its initial equities focus.

Fidessa supports around 85% of the world's tier-one equity brokers and serves over 16,000 users at around 500 clients globally. The latest version of Fidessa, commonly referred to as Enterprise, sees various of its core elements restructured. TMAR, PMAC and OMAR all now are covered by TOP, which provides trade reporting and central processes. EMMA continues to provide European market connectivity, with similar offerings for the US, East Asian and Japanese markets. Indeed Fidessa's strength remains in its ability to provide connectivity to a range of exchanges simultaneously for equity and derivative trading. However, the application components are implemented on a single underlying infrastructure, providing the core transaction integrity, resilience and performance. While the focus of Fidessa is front-office, CTAC also handles some middle office functionality.

Fidessa’s user base is continually growing. 2008 looks to be a strong year for Fidessa, with some major implementation and upgrade projects scheduled , and the growth of other Fidessa components such as Bluebox and Beam, scheduled cards for global investment banks.

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