as lse fdsa industry software founded 1981 headquarters london united kingdom key people john hamer chairman of the board chris aspinwall ceo david taylor founder products trading systems market data revenue 295.5 million 2015 1 operating income 38.8 million 2015 1 net income 29.5 million 2015 1 website www.fidessa.com fidessa group plc is a british headquartered company which provides software and services such as trading systems to clients in the financial services sector . the firm also provides market data and related services to buy side and sell side financial services customers . the company is headquartered in woking with offices in london new york city chicago boston tokyo hong kong paris toronto san francisco belfast singapore bahrain sydney and s o paulo . it is listed on the london stock exchange and is a member of the ftse 250 index . contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 market penetration 2.2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was originally founded in 1981 as intercom data systems ids it was later renamed royalblue group plc 2 and consisted of two separate operating divisions royalblue financial and royalblue technologies . royalblue financial concentrated on the financial trading platform that has become fidessa today and royalblue technologies centred on two separate products rostrvm 3 a call centre technology platform and helpdesk for windows . it has been listed on the london stock exchange since 1997 . 4 with the group s core trading platform fidessa being better known in the market place the royalblue group plc changed its name to fidessa group plc following shareholder approval at the agm held in april 2007 . 5 in april 2007 the company also bought out the privately owned buy side trading provider latentzero . 6 this was then rebranded as fidessa latentzero . 7 in november 2008 fidessa launched its fidessa fragmentation index ffi . 8 this helps to show how fragmented stocks are across exchanges following the mifid european landscape . since its inception it has highlighted as one of the most interesting technical developments in the financial sector in 2008 by finextra . 9 the ffi project was extended in november 2009 with the launch of the award winning fragulator . 10 in april 2011 fidessa launched the tradalyzer that provides detailed trading analysis . 11 operations edit market penetration edit as of early 2009 around 70 % of all securities transactions in london were reportedly handled by fidessa systems . 12 products edit fidessa a sell side suite providing trading market data order management and execution capabilities which is used by 85 % of the tier one global equity brokers . 13 a buy side suite comprising three main products minerva sentinel and tesseract . sentinel is used by 8 out of 10 of the largest global asset managers for pre trade and post trade compliance checks . it was named buy side product of the year in 2008 and 2009 . 14 fix network in addition to a trading platform fidessa hosts a broker neutral fix enabled execution network . this has a large number of brokers connected to it and is similar to other inhouse fix networks such as the lse hub the sungard transaction network stn and thomson reuters subsidiary tradeweb s autex trade route . 15 references edit a b c annual report 2015 pdf . fidessa . retrieved 28 march 2015 . royalblue group forbes 2000 uk contact centre software rostrvm solutions ltd . rostrvm solutions ltd. retrieved 28 march 2015 . fidessa . fidessa about fidessa . fidessa.com . retrieved 28 march 2015 . royalblue to change name looking for acquisitions . reuters . 12 february 2007 . royalblue to acquire latentzero press release 17 april 2007 fidessa latentzero minerva oems provides access to fx connect . bobsguide . 11 march 2008 . retrieved 28 march 2015 . fidessa fragmentation index . fidessa.com . retrieved 28 march 2015 . financial industry trading news algorithmic trading news automated trader . automatedtrader.net . retrieved 28 march 2015 . fragulator new . fidessa.com . retrieved 28 march 2015 . fidessa unveils tradalyzer in canada automated trader 17 august 2011 sandle paul 16 february 2009 . fidessa beats fy forecasts sees 2009 growth . reuters . retrieved 2009 03 13 . about fidessa sentinel and ems workstation take top awards at buy side technology awards tradeweb to offer access to asian dark pool blocsec . wall street and tech.com . 5 october 2010 . retrieved 3 april 2016 . external links edit official site v t e ftse 100 ftse 250 companies of the united kingdom 3i infrastructure aa aberdeen asset management aberforth smaller companies trust acacia mining aggreko aldermore group alliance trust allied minds amec foster wheeler ao world ascential ashmore group assura atkins auto trader group aveva balfour beatty bankers investment trust barr a.g. bba aviation beazley group bellway berendsen berkeley group holdings bank of georgia bh macro big yellow group b & m european retail value bodycote 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