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Zarion is specifically focused on the financial services sector and specialises in improving human centric processes.

Products/Services
TouchPoint2 is Zarion’s process optimisation software for the banking, insurance and capital markets industries.
• Loans/insurance customer enrolment.
• High value processes such as swap payments.
• High volume, low value processes such as claims settlements.
• Zarion’s business process consulting organisation aligns strategic objectives with operations and business processes.
• Zarion’s Lifetime Support team provides ongoing support for customers.

Key Benefits
• Build on rather than replace, existing work management platforms including Global 360’s Execute360
• Achieve quick implementations.
• Reduce long term support and maintenance overheads.
• Require minimal customisation.
• Reduce or eliminate custom build and integration work.

Clients
AIB, Bank of Ireland, GMAC Commercial Finance, Irish Life and Permanent, ING Group.

Partners
Microsoft, Kofax and Global 360.

Tel +353 (0)1 240 5200

Web www.zarion.com

Address
Marine House, Clanwilliam Place, Dublin 2.

WorldSpreads provides ordinary/individual investors with a quick, easy and cheap way to trade individual shares, foreign exchange, stock indices, commodities and interest rates by telephone or online.

Products/Services
Online and telephone financial spread trading in the following markets:
• Irish and International Shares; All major Irish, UK and US stocks are quoted as well as a selection of international institutions.
• Major World Indices; Trading available on the movements in all the major international indices, DOW, FTSE, DAX, CAC etc.
• Currencies: All major currencies are traded.
• Commodities: Trading of the major commodities, oil, wheat, silver, platinum etc.
• Bonds and Interest Rates: Trading on bonds and interest rate movements.

Key Benefits
• No capital gains tax, broker fees or stamp duty.
• Fully interactive on-line service.
• Immediate execution trading.
• Narrow spreads.
• Fully regulated by MIFID and FSA.
• Ability to short the market.
• Trade in small sizes.

Clients
All private clients.

Partners
M&G Valores, portfolio, Phumelela, AVD, Testra.

Tel +353 (0)1 660 9835

Web www.worldspreads.ie

Address
8 The Anchorage Business park, Charlotte Quay, Dublin 4.

Tradeshape is provider of cash and liquidity management solutions that empower financial institutions to better manage their capital once a trade has been executed and thus to ‘know their traded world’.

Products/Services
• TS Workstation will alert and display all transactions that do not process in a timely manner.
• TS Integration Server is a highly configurable solution suite that provides industry standard real-time connections to all disparate information sources, operational user configurable workflows and secure data store of all transaction history.
• TS Analyser allows operations management to quickly drill past surface issues and will allow the quick identification of the root cause.
• TS CAS Manager is a stock and cash management solution providing users with a realtime actual and projected view of their stock and cash balances.
• Professional Services
   o Analysis and project management.
   o Integration.

Key Benefits
• Uses a single technology platform that provides point solutions for real-time stock and cash ladder management, transaction monitoring and repair, transaction flow analysis and exception reporting.
• The Tradeshape single architecture can be extended to consolidate business silos by providing an up-to-the second single-window view on “At Risk” transactions across the entire enterprise.

Tel +353 (0)21 463 9374

Web www.tradeshape.com

Address
Unit 4, 2 Drury’s Avenue, Midleton, Co. Cork.

Rockall Technologies is a software company which offers a solution to financial institutions who require improved visibility of their credit exposure while providing greater confidence in LTV via pro-active management of the collateral it holds

Products/Services
• Rockall’s flagship product SAM (Securities/Collateral Activity management) is a solution that provides the lender with a complete, up to date view and status of the collateral held for a customer or loan.
• The software can be implemented as a standalone or integrated.

Key Benefits
• Drives down costs associated with security processing and staff retraining.
• Improves service quality.
• provides sales information.
• Reduces risk.
• Increases productivity.
• Increases customer satisfaction.
• Meets regulatory demands (Basel, Sarbanes Oxley etc).

Clients
Wachovia Corporation, National Australia Group, AIB, Bank of Ireland, EBS, National Irish Bank, Northern Bank.

Partners
Microsoft, Oracle, Cap Gemini, Deloitte, Touche.

Tel +353 (0)1 289 0800

Web www.rockalltech.com

Address
3 Aspen Court, Cornelscourt, Dublin 18.

Rainmaker specialises in building enterprise portal systems for clients in the airline and financial services sectors using XML, web services and service oriented architecture (SOA).

Products/Services
• Airline enterprise portal system for airline operations management.
• Financial services enterprise portal system for end to end processing of mortgages, pensions, personal lines insurance etc.

Key Benefits
• Seamless integration of existing applications with enterprise portal system regardless of differences in platform, location and development technologies.
• The ability to change applications rapidly.
• Faster application delivery that accelerates time to market for new systems.
• Capability to effectively automate business process.
• Ability to effectively re-use software components and services.

Clients
Cityjet, Dubai Municipality, MMI Insurance, IRFU, Irish Mortgage Corporation, Insure.ie

Partners
Gulf Data International (Middle East);

Tel + 353 (0)1 293 2325

Web www.rainmaker.ie

Address
7b Sandyford Business Centre, Sandyford, Dublin 18.

Qumas delivers a closed-loop compliance model that standardizes and integrates the common elements of compliance tasks across the organization

Products/Services
The QUMAS Compliance suite consolidates the entire range of enterprise compliance and governance in the following areas:
• Document, process and risk management.
• Auditing, reporting and quality assurance.
• Policy enforcement and access control.

Key Benefits
• Enables organisations to define and control global and local processes in a fully audited environment.
• Automatic notification across the suite ensures that all employees are notified in real time.
• The read and understood functionality ensures that there is a full audit trail of all information.
• Automatic notification sent to selected users when particular incidents occur.
• Security for sensitive information is protected by password policy management.
• Electronic signature components are available for display, including printed name of signer, time / date stamp, and meaning of signature.
• Organisation-wide reporting functionality means that general or specific reports can be created.

Clients
Qumas has over 250 customer deployments including 5 of the top 10 life sciences firms and financial services leaders such as Fidelity Investments.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000 certified for 10th year in a row and has been successfully audited by over 90 clients.

Additional Languages
French, German, Italian, Spanish.

Contact Name / Title
Caoimhe Kiely, VP Marketing

Email ckiely@qumas.com

Web www.qumas.com

Tel +353 (0)21 491 5100

Address
Monahan Road, Cork.

Quaternity is a spuuplier of Software for the fund management & equities industry used in the financial services sector.

Products/Services
• Explica uses the returns arising out of portfolios to generate an array of investment statistics and graphical analyses.
• The results of these statistics/graphic analysis can be used to monitor the risk and investment style of a portfolio as well as its performance against peer groups.

Key Benefits
• Innovative statistical and graphical investment analysis, providing clearer and deeper insight into the risks and performance of portfolios.
• Powerful automation features that enable more portfolios to be analysed more quickly and comprehensively saving clients time, effort and money.
• Versatile reporting (Crystal Reports, Excel, Word, Powerpoint) of results improves communications.
• Can be applied equally well to monitor internal and external portfolios.
• Powerful product development tools.
•Excellent return on investment.

Clients
Royal Bank of Scotland, AXA, AIB, Bank of Ireland, Coutts, KBC, Irish Life, Investment Solutions, Pensco, Thornhill Asset Management, Goodbody, Bloxham.

Tel +353 (0)71 962 2585

Web www.quaternitytech.com

Address
32 Inver Gael, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

Polarlake delivers financial services specific integration applications based on its unique patented XML pipelining technology.

Products/Services
• PolarLake RDD: Reference data distribution for financial services.
• PolarLake OTC Derivatives: Reconciliation and matching of OTC derivative portfolios and trade lifecycle management.
• PolarLake Messaging Integrator for Financial Services (FPML, SWIFT, FIX, CSV, non XML, web services, etc.)

Key Benefits
• Business Benefits
       o Increase the ability to trade in complex instruments.
       o Reduce straight through processing failure rates.
       o Lower operational risk of reference data quality and
• OTC derivative reconciliation processes.
       o Meet compliance and operational efficiency requirements.
       o Support MIFID, KyC, SOX, Basel II.
• IT Benefits
      o Deliver with 80% less resources and 75% faster on traditional data distribution projects.
      o Improve ROI on enterprise data management projects.
      o Facilitate system flexibility.

Clients
JP Morgan Chase, Société Générale, Pioneer Investments, Unicredit, Man Financial, Bank of Ireland, Dimensional Fund Advisors.

Partners
Hitachi, Sun Microsystems, Accenture, EDS, Golden Source, Asset Control, CounterpartyLink.

Tel +353 (0)1 449 1010

Web www.polarlake.com

Address
80 harcourt Street, Dublin 2.

Pacemetrics provides real-time business transaction monitoring, end-of-day pricing and compliance solutions to the investment banking and financial services industry.

Products/Services
• PaceMaker is a business activity monitor. PaceMaker is deployed in investment banking to improve operational efficiency, reduce operational risk and improve customer service.
• PaceMaker listens in at strategic message points in business processes and instantly highlights problems as they occur so that effective action can be taken.
• PVS (Price Verification Server) provides a single source of verified prices for all types of financial instruments and offers full transparency and process control to ensure that price delivery is on time and quality assured.

Key Benefits
• Quick implementation, pragmatic approach, compelling ROI.
• MIS, full audit trails and comprehensive reporting provide full transparency and process control.
• Scaleable architecture matched to investment banking needs.
• Lightweight, non-intrusive Software that builds on the existing investments leaving existing systems and processes unaltered.

Clients
HVB Group, Bank of Ireland, Value price AG, Global Tier 1 Investment Bank.

Partners
Value price AG (Frankfurt), Effectas Gmbh (Zurich), Tori Global, Real EMC (Madrid), Ordina, Benoist (Munich).

Tel+353 (0)1 818 4000

Web www.pacemetrics.com

Address
Dunluce house, Eastpoint Business park, Dublin 3.

Norkom Technologies is a provider of innovative financial crime and compliance solutions to the global financial services industry. Its solutions enable organisations to detect and combat financial crime reducing their operational losses and addressing the industry’s ever-changing global compliance and regulatory requirements.

Products/Services
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solutions, Risk-based Customer Due Diligence / Know Your Customer (CDD / KYC), Identity Resolution solution, Watch List management solutions including:
• Transaction Monitoring solutions
• PEP Screening and Sanctions Filtering solutions
• Enterprise Investigation Management (EIM)
• Fraud Detection and Prevention solutions including:
• Multi-Channel Fraud solution
• Card Fraud solution
• Online Fraud solution
• Internal Fraud solution
• Deposit/Cheque Fraud solution
• Identity theft solution.

Key Benefits
• Norkom enables organisations to take intelligent action, control their defences and evolve their strategies against financial crime.
• Cost effective solution is proven to reduce financial losses, protect reputation and improve operational efficiencies.
• Norkom offers a comprehensive set of solutions which can be scaled and customised to meet clients’ current and future needs.

Clients
Credit Agricole, Standard Chartered Bank, Erste Bank, HSBC Bank, Bank of Montreal, ING Direct, Fortis Bank Group, KBC Bank, Rabobank, National Australia Group (Europe), Visa (Europe), EuroClear, Travelex, New York Clearing House, DTCC, Western Union, Allied Irish Bank.

Partners
Norkom has a global network of value added integration and configuration partners.

Tel +353 (0)1 873 9600

Web www.norkom.com

Address
55 Strand Street Great, Millennium Walkway, Dublin 1.

MoneyMate provides managed services for fund data centralisation, validation and distribution to the global asset management community.

Products/Services
MoneyMate provides a suite of fund data management services including:
• Sourcing and validating raw product informationfrom all sources.
• Centralising data in a web-accessible hub for easy 24/7 access.
• Formatting the data for consistency and in adherence with in-house requirements.
• Disseminating accurate, consistent and timely data to all required parties in any required format.

Key Benefits
• Asset managers leverage MoneyMate’s expertise to manage product information in a timely and accurate manner.
• Partnering with MoneyMate enables asset managers to remove a huge administrative burden from their in-house resources allowing them to focus on core activities.
• MoneyMate provides services that enhance an asset manager’s work, rather than duplicating or reinventing it – Moneymate’s services are built around a comprehensive understanding of the current data management processes.

Clients
JP Morgan, Schroders, Fidelity, State Street, London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times.

Tel +353 (0)1 671 6911

Web www.moneymate.com

Address
4th Floor, The Tower, Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Merit Software products automate the payable and receivable process in the investment-banking and broking environment.

Products/Services
• Claim Manager looks at pre and post-trade activities in order to monitor settlements and risks, monitors the incremental revenue associated with trades and also monitors agreement and recovery of payable and receivable items and supports two-way communications
• Claim Manager Tax processing supports both reclaims and the SX1 processing.
• Pathfinder is an internet based extension to the Claim Manager product, facilitating query and exception case management, agreement and resolution.
• Consulting services that compliment its areas of product expertise.
• Outsourcing service for claim and trade management functions is also offered.

Key Benefits
• Streamline the many operational processes into a standard claims inward and outward process. Also covered is post settlement matching, fails management and claims management.
• Enhance management control, reduce client risk and assist with regulatory and risk compliance requirements.

Clients
Credit Suisse, UBS, Merrill Lynch.

Tel +353 (0)86 821 9375

Web www.merit-soft.com

Address
10 Wilfield park, Sandymount, Dublin 4.

Koelo is a specialist technology provider for advanced trading and post-trading flow management. Koelo software solutions help financial firms in implementing efficient straight through processing (STP).

Products/Services
FIX Station SUITE is a group of modules that combine to form a scalable messaging platform that connects to multiple counterparties in a trade lifecycle.
• FIX Station TRADE provides real-time multi-counterparty trading and connectivity for all major asset classes.
• FIX Station POST-TRADE captures and processes posttrade information to achieve full automation of middle and back-offices
• FIX Station MATCH automates the allocation, matching, confirmation and reconciliation processes of middle and back-offices.
• FIX Station WEB is a new generation web application specifically designed for fund administration and service providers enabling bi-directional real-time communication.
• FIX Implementation/STP Services.

Key Benefits
The FIX Station SUITE brings automation and control to the information flows associated with the trade and post-trade management.

Clients
Bank of Ireland Securities Services, MPS Asset Management Ireland.

Partners
Sun Microsystems, Member of FIX protocol.

Tel +353 (0)1 659 9230

Web www.koelo.com

Address
NCI Business & Research Centre, Mayor St, IFSC, Dublin 1.

Information mosaic (IM) is a provider of advanced middle and back office solutions including corporate actions automation for the investment services industry. Addresses the needs of investment services organisations seeking to support their clients’ global investment business from a single, consolidated platform.

Products/Services
• Converg-e is an investment accounting and custody system designed from the outset to be a global, multi entity market solution that allows for consolidation of operations minimising operational risk.
• CAMA (Corporate Actions Management Application): an end-to-end corporate actions automation solution, featuring sophisticated rules based data cleansing and entitlement processing.

Key Benefits
• Converg-e and CAMA  provide financial institutions with increased control of and transparency into their globally distributed operations.
• Information Mosaic’s products lower operating costs and improve risk management for the globally invested, multi-domiciled financial institution.
• IM brings to market new low cost of ownership technology solutions for global corporate actions and custody processing that scale.

Clients
Clients include global custodians, asset managers and broker / dealers who require global functionality from a single location.

Partners
IBM, Real-EMC (Spain), INEUM Consulting, Module 1 (Sweden), HP, Sun Microsystems, Interactive Data, Trace Financial.

Web www.informationmosaic.com

Tel +353 (0)1 241 5200

Address
Styne house, Upper hatch Street, Dublin 2.

Exoftware specialise in agile software development techniques, offering a range of related services to the financial, telecoms and government sectors.

Products/Services
• Enablement: helping companies and teams start, build and maintain an agile software development organisation.
• Training: Offering standardised agile/Xp training courses for all levels, and customised courses to suit client needs.
• Development: Using agile methods to build custom applications for clients, focusing on:
o Intense customer collaboration.
o Delivering tested software early and often.
o Remaining flexible to allow for changing business needs.

Key Benefits
• Deep expertise in agile and Xp software development methodologies.
• Broad experience in a range of industry sectors including telecoms, financial services and government.
• Opportunity to change direction without incurring excessive costs.
• Results and delivery driven approaches that value technical excellence and core team effectiveness.

Clients
HPI, Prime Carrier, Openet, Welfare.ie, Empower Solutions, Fexco, AGF Asset Management, C2, Dresdner Bank, Telenor, Group4, BNP Paribas, Headway Software, Iona, Barclaycard, Logica CMG, Atos Origin, Intel, Finalysis, Consul, Compello Software, AIB, Churchill, BBC, Cúram Software, Anglo Irish Bank, Three X, Vodafone, Beaumont hospital.

Partners
Cresta, Intellij Idea 3.0, parity Training, Sun Microsystems, Best Outcomes.

Tel +353 (0)1 410 0647

Web www.exoftware.com

Address
Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylors Lane, Dublin 8.

Corvil works with enterprises, service providers and network equipment vendors to develop a new generation technology that measures and manages IP packet networks in real-time.

Products/Services
CorvilNet provides visibility into network application performance. It combines this visibility with quality and bandwidth analytics to enable users to provision the network to provide the required levels of latency and loss to meet application performance.

Key Benefits
The control of network latency and loss is a vital ingredient in delivering maximum performance for networked applications.

The principal benefits of CorvilNet are:
• Unprecedented visibility of network events that impact application latency and loss – increase confidence in network’s ability to handle latency sensitive applications.
• Understand how to provision network for desired level of latency and loss,  cut cost and time to support latency sensitive applications on network.
• Rapid troubleshooting of network congestion issues – reduce time, effort and uncertainty involved in resolving issues.

Clients
London Stock Exchange.

Partners
Cisco Systems.

Tel: + 353 (0)1 672 1000

Web: www.corvil.com

Address:
2nd Floor, 6 George’s Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1.

Intuition provides knowledge and learning services to the financial, pharmaceutical / life sciences and government sectors. Combining an intimate knowledge of these sectors with in-depth educational expertise, Intuition provides a full spectrum of products, services and technologies to support clients’ learning requirements.

Products/Services
• Healthcare courses: Infection control, decontamination.
• Generic Content: Health and safety training, security training.
• Learning management systems and hosting services.
• Consultancy, blended learning design, instructor-led training.
• Bespoke e-learning content.

Key Benefits
• End-to-end learning solutions: consultancy and programme design, development, web hosting and implementation services.
• Quality Accredited: ISO 9001:2000, UK TickIT.
• Public Sector Procurement Channels: A selection of government frameworks.
• Communicating policy effectively, standardising best practice and implementing regulatory standards.

Clients
Department of Health England, NHS, Ministry of Defence, Transport for
London, Ufi Learndirect, NHS Education Scotland, HM Treasury.

Partners
Microsoft Certified Partner, Research In Motion (Blackberry).

Standards & Certifications
Quality Management System ISO 9001:2000 certified, TickIT certified.

Additional Languages
English, French (including Canadian), Italian, German, Spanish (including Latin American), Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin and Cantonese, Japanese, Korean.

Contact Name / Title
Séamus Coogan, Marketing Manager

Email
scoogan@intuition.com

Web www.intuition.com

Tel +353 (0)1 605 4300

Address
IFSC House, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1.

CurrencyFair is a currency exchange website with a difference; there is no commission because there are no banks or middle-men involved.

Products & Services
• CurrencyFair puts people who want to sell any currency in touch with other people who want to buy them in a completely anonymous environment.
• CurrencyFair has created an online marketplace in which people can do business with trade currency without ever meeting through a system that makes matching orders are anonymous.

Key Benefits
• Buyers and Sellers can choose the best rate available or wait for someone to match them at the rate they want.
• Following market principles if anyone tries to charge above the odds for their currency, they will never sell them. Only when participants ask a fair price will they get to exchange.
• Companies buying and selling all over the world.

Clients
Large client base of individual currency traders.

Partners
Grant Thornton and Date Electronics

Web www.currencyfair.com

Tel (01) 662 0365

Address
CurrencyFair Limited, 26 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2.