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Trading Solutions: our core business continues to evolve

In 1991 GL TRADE seized the opportunity created by Paris Stock Exchange’s move to electronic trading to create its GL WIN trading software. For nearly 20 years, GL TRADE has taken full advantage of the shift to electronic trading in the international financial markets to develop and enrich its expertise. GL TRADE has always been able to offer its customer base of financial institutions the fullest and best performing products on the market.

Today we offer our customers multi-instrument systems (equities, futures, options, commodities, forex and bonds) and STP (Straight Through Processing) systems that can automate and optimise in real time the entire process of managing a securities transaction. Complete, powerful, fully secure and modular, our products are based on an open architecture that allows total integration of our solutions with the complex systems used by our clients via FIX (Financial Interface eXchange) protocol and, for those clients requiring maximum performance, via our APIs (Application Protocol Interface). We also offer a substantial share of our products via ASP, allowing clients who want to concentrate on their core business to access the best technical solutions.

The GL STREAM™ Workstation, a single trading and order management interface that combines client orders and market orders on a single screen, is the result of our own in-house development and the integration of the best technologies we have acquired to manage the order management value chain. This workstation, designed for equity and derivatives markets alike, provides an enhanced Front to Back solution that is fully modular and one of the most powerful and complete solutions available on the market (500,000 products listed on a single screen, visualisation of complete market data flows).

In derivatives markets, GL STREAM provides our clients with the capacity to meet the growing volumes in derivatives markets and the increased competition between exchanges for the trading of futures contracts. Designed with both proprietary and client account trading in mind, it combines a large number of functions adapted for all types of trading of derivatives, from the simplest buy or sell order through to highly complex, automated strategies on futures and options markets. In addition, it gives access to over 50 derivatives exchanges, including the major hubs of London, Chicago and Asia.

In the area of dedicated solutions for derivatives, 2006 also saw the acquisition of Nyfix Overseas, whose derivative order management tools have strengthened our existing offering. The substantial synergies between products and the compatibility of the two product ranges will enable us to make significant functional improvements.

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