an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message misys type privately held company industry software founded 1979 headquarters london england key people nadeem syed ceo simon paris president and chief sales officer tom kilroy chief of staff martin h ring chief marketing officer owner vista equity partners number of employees 4 500 2013 website www.misys.com misys provides financial services software covering retail and corporate banking lending treasury capital markets investment management and enterprise risk . contents 1 history 1.1 1970 to 2000 1.2 2000 to present 2 key partners 3 geography 4 references 5 external links history edit 1970 to 2000 edit the company was founded in 1979 as a computer systems supplier to uk insurance brokers . 1 the purchase of multiple established players in respective markets by misys under the leadership of kevin lomax chairman and or ceo 1985 2006 allowed misys to evolve at various times into a software supplier to the us healthcare industry to banks worldwide and to fund managers worldwide . many of the companies acquired and consolidated by misys were themselves products of previous mergers . in 1987 misys shares were first traded on the unlisted securities market . it was admitted to the main list of the london stock exchange in 1989 leveraged on the initial successes of the purchases cross selling to an expanded client base and economies of scale arising from consolidation . in 1994 misys entered the banking software space by purchasing kapiti ltd. in 1995 misys purchased act which included bis and kindle thus rapidly giving misys control of 3 of the 4 biggest selling core banking packages at the time . at time of purchase midas had the biggest installed base of any off the shelf banking software package . the biggest banking software company to be brought into the misys fold was bis . business intelligence services or bis ltd in 1976 had acquired kingsley smith and associates and a software package named midas developed by ksa . this banking software system was based on a concept of a core multi currency accounting module . at the time most other international banks worldwide worked and accounted on a single currency methodology . it was marketed to and operated successfully by a number of client london banks from 1979 . from the mid to late 1980s competition to midas came from vendors with systems called kapiti bankmaster from kindle and ibis . in 1991 act purchased kindle followed by bis in 1993 uniting two of the biggest selling products under one ownership albeit with different user bases . midas was focused on its traditional strength of international branch banking in the world s financial centers . the simplicity of bankmaster and its branchpower front end sold very well to tier 3 and 4 banks in africa and south america . kapiti ltd was a privately held packaged banking software house focused on using ibm s mid range computers to server the international branch banking market . kapiti was founded in 1975 by a mr. john kennedy a new zealand native and competed directly with the commercially more successful midas system . initially headquartered in london the company moved to windsor then slough berkshire . in 1990 kapiti re branded the well established kapiti international banking system kibs as equation 1 sales were still focused on international branch banking with clusters of users in financial centers like london plus some small retail operations in the gulf . the combination of the port to the new ibm as 400 platform with its increased processing power the user friendly eq2 user interface rework the performance boost from the eq3 data base rewrite and the addition of a client server cashier system had allowed an expansion into retail banking . kapiti also pursued wholesale banking by merging with aregon international dealing room information feeds purchasing future systems trade capture and purchasing rights to some reporting tools . none of the acquired companies prospered under kapiti . however the technical expertise of the aregon team was exploited to build in house a trade finance system called trade innovation ti which was commercially successful for 20 years or so . in 1996 misys bought summit systems an american software company selling a front office cross asset management system targeting investment banks trading rooms . in 1997 it bought medic computer systems a healthcare software business . 2 2000 to present edit in 2001 it went on to buy dbs management plc a supplier of software to independent financial advisors . 3 it also bought sunquest information systems inc. a us supplier of clinical systems software 4 and later sold the same in 2007 . 5 in january 2004 the company bought iq financial systems from deutsche bank for 40m 6 then almonde in july 2005 for 15m 7 intesio in february 2006 for 10m 8 and neomalogic in march 2006 for 12m . 9 following the resignation of company founder kevin lomax misys appointed mike lawrie as group chief executive in october 2006 . 10 in 2007 he set out a new three to five year strategy to turn around and improve the financial operating performance of the company . 11 in 2008 the company announced a merger between its healthcare business and allscripts a medical records business . the merger was completed on 10 october 2008 and misys plc now held a majority shareholding in the merged entity known as allscripts misys healthcare solutions inc which is listed on the nasdaq mdrx . 12 in june 2010 allscripts announced a merger with eclipsys corporation and that the misys stake in allscripts was to be reduced through a share buyback and secondary offering . 13 on 12 november 2010 misys announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire sophis a provider of portfolio and risk management software . 14 misys entered into merger talks with its swiss rival temenos in february 2012 . 15 the deal later collapsed when the two sides were unable to agree terms . on march 19 2012 private equity firm vista equity partners announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire misys for 350p per share valuing the company at 1.27 bn . 16 following completion of the acquisition in june 2012 misys merged with turaz the former treasury and risk management software division of thomson reuters known for its kondor suite which had been acquired by vista in 2011 . on 10 february 2014 misys completed its acquisition of hungary based ind group an innovator in digital channels solutions . 17 on 8 august 2014 misys closed the transaction to acquire custom credit systems ccs a leading us based provider of credit workflow and loan origination software . the combination of ccs and misys results in the most comprehensive commercial lending solution across all lending asset classes globally . 18 in september 2014 the firm s owners vista equity partners revealed that they would be looking to sell the firm to any interested buyers . 19 key partners edit cognizant technology solutions accenture hcl technologies itc infotech audax encore theme ethics consulting botswana azimuth cinimex finbridge gmbh & co. kg investment world for development and technology laya consulting softworks targit tcm partners geography edit head office located in london england with offices in 50 countries throughout the world . software is mainly developed and supported offshore . development centres include bengaluru india beijing china bucharest romania dublin ireland gdynia poland manila philippines new york usa dallas usa paris france miskolc hungary budapest hungary references edit kevin lomax s rise and fall misys pays heavily for tonic . misys buys dbs to boost advice arm misys buys sunquest for 286 million to tighten us hold misys sells off sunquest cpr exiting the hospital systems business misys acquires iq financial systems for 40m misys acquires banking risk management firm almonde misys buys germany s intesio for eur10m misys buys trade finance outfit neomalogic misys appoints mike lawrie group chief executive misys chief blames predecessors and unveils recovery strategy merger update allscripts and eclipsys to merge creating new healthcare information technology leader misys to buy software vendor sophis for 593 million bloomberg 12 november 2010 misys in talks over merger with swiss rival temenos after fidelity failure bloomberg 3 february 2012 misys agrees to be bought by vista for 1.3 bn . bbc online . 19 march 2012 . retrieved 2012 03 19 . http indgroup.eu misys http www.misys.com about us acquisitions custom credit systems pe firm vista puts misys on the block press release . reuters . 29 september 2014 . external links edit official site zdnet can open source make mike lawrie a winner zdnet how big a place for misys open source in healthcare interview with theo simons regional director cis at misys misys chief executive could be in line for 1.7 m payoff despite being criticised for last year s 2m bonus . csc names mike lawrie ceo ending four month search . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title misys & oldid 731604391 categories companies formerly listed on the london stock exchangesoftware companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in londoncompanies established in 1979financial software companiesbanking software companiesfinancial technology companieshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from september 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated 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