© 2011 Fidessa group plc

Graduate Opportunities 2011-12

Phil Beevers Chief ArchitectJohn Wybrow Recruitment Manager

11th October 2011

Fidessa Graduate Opportunities 2011-12

Agenda

Introduction to Fidessa

Our Challenge

Our Opportunities

Our People

Questions

Fidessa

Introduction to Fidessa

Fidessa...

– Is a significant UK-based software success story

– Provides trading systems to >950 firms around the world

–Has 14 offices in 10 countries

–Makes money and is growing

–Has great technology and an appetite for high-quality people

– Is making it easier to buy, sell and own financial assets of all types on a global basis

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Fidessa

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Regulated Funds

Unregulated

Retail Managers

Institutional Managers

Wealth Manager /

Private Banks

Hedge Funds

Shares

Real Estate

Commodities

Bonds

Currencies

High Net Worth

Brokers

Investors Buy-side Firms

Asset Classes Venues/Issuers

Sell-side Firms

Exchanges

Governments

Private Investors

Corporations

Corporations

Fidessa

Core Development

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Fidessa Trader Workbench

OpenAccess

User PrefsDiagnosticsSPatch

Real-Time Grids

Browser Controls

XML Dialogs

Custom .NET controlsCustom OCXs

Themes

User desktop layout

Fidessa Server

64-bit, in-memory database

Real-time event notification

OpenAccess LLB

Generic server components

C++ libs and applications

Java libs and applications

Scripting Monitoring

Resilience and Failover

Fidessa

Core Development

Graduate Opportunities 2011-12

Talk is cheap.Show me the code.

- Linus Torvalds

Fidessa

Core Development

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void CUtl_RingBufServer::UnLockInternal(BOOLEAN wakeClients)

{

if (basePtr && wakeClients)

{

// Always broadcast; this is a no-op if no waiters

fidos_atomic_add_64(&((TUtl_RingBufHeader*)basePtr)->wakeCount, 1);

pthread_cond_broadcast(&((TUtl_RingBufHeader*)basePtr)->condVar);

}

mutexGroup->UnLockMutex(mutexNo);

locked = FALSE;

}

Fidessa

Hosted Services

ASP, SaaS, Cloud…

Hosting, running and operating all that great software

A problem of scale

A requirement for agility

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Fidessa Fidessa Current & Proposed Data Centres

Stockholm

London 1&2

New York 1&2

Toronto 1&2

Tokyo 1&2

Hong Kong 1&2

Chicago 1&2

Planned Q1 2012

Sydney

(est go-live Q4 2011)

Mumbai

Proposed 2012

Seoul

Proposed 2012

LO1 – Woking, Surrey

LO2 – London, E14 (closest to LSE)

NY1 – Somerset, New Jersey (closest to NYSE, NASDAQ)

NY2 – Trumbull, Connecticut

TO1 – Markham, Ontario

TO2 – Toronto, Ontario (closest to TMX)

ST1 – Kista, Sweden (closest to NASDAQ OMX)

HK1 – Cyberport Road, Hong Kong (closest to HKSE)

HK2 – Quarry Bay, Hong Kong

TK1 – Koto-ku, Tokyo

TK2 – Higashi Ikebukuro, Tokyo (closest to TSE)

CH1 – Downtown Chicago, IL (closest to CME for 2011)

CH2 – Aurora, IL (co-lo with CME 2012)

SY1 – co-lo with ASX primary

SY2 – co-lo with ASX standby

6000 systems

500 firms

150 markets

>$850 billion worth of transactions monthly

Fidessa

Enterprise Services

Small number of large customers – 85% of tier one firms

Multi-million dollar, multi-year relationships

Big fish, little fish

Integration, customisation, flexibility

Cutting edge of business and technology

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Fidessa

Breaking News…

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11th October 2011 – Citi has selected Fidessa to provide it with a class-leading workflow and trading platform for the bank's global listed derivatives business.

Fidessa

Our Opportunity

We’re looking for:

– Software Developers

– Consultants

– Support Analysts

We can offer:

– Quality Training

– Career Progression

– Travel Options

– Strong, friendly culture

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Fidessa

Our People

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