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Mon 23rd June 2008, 6:00pm | BAFTA Theatre, 195 Piccadilly, London W1

The life blood of financial services and global commerce is built around the exchange of messages between counterparties to trades and transactions.

Whether it be securities or trade value chains, agreements are struck to trade and settlement proceeds through to payment through mediums and parties often unknown to each other.

SWIFT has blazed the trail in standardizing settlement message formats and created a transition in the industry over the last 30 years. Other message formats and bodies have followed successfully, FIX Protocol Limited for equities, RosettaNet for technology, and technology and data initiatives such as FpML, AMQP.

Arriving at standards has proved an horrendous complex journey, during which time a thriving industry has been bred in technologies and ASP services between communicating lingua franca or simply take the pain away in an service contract.

Today we arrive at new market structures – RegNMS and MiFID have been commented upon in global securities, SEPA stands to change the landscape for European payments and new technologies could revolutionise the manner in which counterparties communicate – functional disintermediation through automation is a real possibility.

FasterMESSAGING AUTOMATION AND STP taps Intel’s sight of market innovation to paint a cross section across this change.

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This event is co-sponsored by:

Fujitsu Siemens Computers – Front office solutions are multi facetted – from hardware through operating systems to application and mainstream data centre considerations. Fujitsu Siemens Computers assembles the range of skills necessary to assess the respective contributions, priorities and issues associated with managing the mix towards lowest possible latency across the infrastructure.

With open source solutions becoming more popular among financial services firms, Intel and Red Hat are tuning the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Operating System and middleware applications for Intel’s multi-core platforms. Industry benchmarking by Principled Technologies already shows significant performance achievements. Of special note is the SPECjbb benchmark of the RHEL 5/Intel platform, with three times the performance of the competition. The performance, power efficiencies, and reliability of the Red Hat/Intel platform is by design, not by default. Customers and ISVsare encouraged to join Red Hat’s Solutions Acceleration Program to trial these systems in the Low Latency Lab or dedicated Red Hat Centers.

Petra Financial has developed a unique range of payments and SWIFT messaging products that includes web based payments processing; reference and financial data modules; OLAP reporting and System Integration tools; exceptions and investigations case management; and integration with SWIFT services including Accord. All products are supplied with integrated payments reference data that is updated daily, and are trusted globally by some of the world’s leading institutions. Petra’s innovative approach to delivering solutions as Software as a Service means that customers pay for what they use, and pay as they go. This also has significant benefits to integration and operating expenses.

29West provides the lowest latency, highest performance and most stable messaging infrastructure to the financial markets. In addition to the obvious competitive advantages low latency messaging delivers, our efficient design frequently provides our customers with large costs savings as they are able to handle considerably more messaging traffic with less hardware.