Competitive positioning

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Making 20 years’ expertise available to financial institutions

Since its creation in 1987, GL TRADE has gone from being a supplier of market access and trading screens to a provider of complex integrated solutions for financial institutions spanning from the Front Office to the Back Office. The functional scope of our offering and our closeness to clients, through a presence in more than 20 countries, are unique in the market. Our solid financial position, based on sound fundamentals and carefully considered expansion, puts us in a position to make continuous improvements in our product offering to maintain competitiveness and create value for our shareholders.

Multi-instrument positioning

Our Sell Side and Buy Side clients are increasingly looking for multi-instrument solutions to help control costs. In order to meet these needs, GL TRADE decided very early on to develop solutions that could handle equities as easily as derivatives, bonds or OTC products. Today this covers more than 130 accessible markets and over 500,000 different tradable securities.

Integrated Front to Back solutions

The acquisition of Ubitrade at the end of 2004, and its swift and successful integration, means that we have been able to add UBIX to our range to produce a complete STP solution for derivatives markets covering Front, Middle and Back Offices. In the Back Office segment, UBIX ranks third worldwide, behind GMI from SunGard and Rolfe & Nolan. In the Middle Office market, GL CLEARVISION is the clear world leader, with an estimated 70% share of the market. We have made no secret of our ambition to establish ourselves as the outright leader right across the derivatives order chain.

None of our competitors can offer a global STP solution. Given the growth in the market traded assets managed by our clients, which is running at a rate of 20% to 30% per year, the automation of the entire order chain is becoming increasingly vital. Brokers are now adopting policies of reducing the number of suppliers used across the order chain. Our solutions meet the need for a global solution without sacrificing access to the best technology.

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