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Greetings
Happy holidays!
It has been a great year here at Orc and we are excited about what is around the corner in 2014. Leading up to the new year, we have enhanced our products and services to help you maintain focus on your core business. Our Services+ offering will help you manage change, control risk and drive cost efficiency in your daily operations. Our newest version of Orc Market Maker will help you stay ahead of the market and our Entitlements offering provides role-based user rights control for a flexible way to stay competitive and meet regulatory needs. For this information and more, please scroll below.
Also, we wanted to take this time to wish you a happy holiday season. From all of us here at Orc, we hope you enjoy the time off with your families and have a new year filled with health, wealth and happiness.
The Orc Team
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Services
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Orc Services enhanced
The Orc Services+ packages are designed to manage and grow the Orc platform while you focus on your core business activities. Large investment banks and proprietary trading houses are both today utilizing Orc´s extended support services and expertise to manage change, control risk and drive cost efficiency in daily business operations. Orc's Application Management Services are a key offering of the Orc Services+ suite, providing tiered levels of platform support and management to our partner clients. With Orc’s Application Management Services you too will enjoy the benefits of specialist expertise from the company that built the solution. Read More>>
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Feature of the quarter
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Orc Market Maker notifications
We understand that managing a market making operation is becoming increasingly complex and we aim to simplify your workflow with every new product release. With our newest version of Orc Market Maker, we strive to help you keep focus and navigate current market conditions without any distractions or busy work.
With the latest release of Orc Market Maker, our advanced trading strategy can send interactive notifications to traders. These alerts allowed us to create an event-driven workflow which allows for quick, single-click responses to stay ahead of the market. Whether an abnormal price feed update has been detected, an opportunity found in the market, or a safety threshold reached, Orc Market Maker Notifications will pay attention for you. Read More>>
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Other news
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CADC sheds light on how to navigate new derivatives landscape
The Toronto Montreal Exchange (TMX) held it's 14th Annual Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference (CADC) December 4-6 in Mont-Tremblant, Canada. Orc has been a proud sponsor of the event since 2002.
This year's conference was coordinated around the Tremblant 24h, a 24 hour skiing relay challenge that attracts close to 2000 participants to raise money for children's causes. To accomodate those participating in the relay, the conference was held in a ski town two hours north of Montreal.
Professionals in the Canadian and US markets gathered in Mont-Tremblant to discuss the current market conditions, the global regulatory challenges and how to optimize performance in these historic times; all the while raising money for charity. Read More >>
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Company news
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Orc introduces FIX Access to global trading venues
Orc FIX Access extends the reach of FIX-enabled trading systems using Orc’s native exchange gateways. Stockholm, SWEDEN – Wednesday, October 9, 2013 – Orc, a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, today announced Orc FIX Access, a key addition to its stand-alone market access offering. Read more>>
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Interim report Orc Group Holding AB January 1 – September 30, 2013
This interim report refers to Orc Group Holding AB (publ) - (formerly Cidron Delfi Intressenter AB (publ)) - and the Orc Group Holding group for the period from January 1 to September 30, 2013. At the beginning of 2012, Orc Group Holding AB acquired Orc group through a public tender offer directed to the shareholders in Orc Group AB (publ). Read more>>
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Market connectivity
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Orc has worked diligently to provide global market connectivity updates and expansions. In the Americas, Orc has completed work on connectivity to Lynx ATS, a secondary trading market place that Omega Securities Inc. will launch in February 2014. The Lynx ATS solution is currently available for Orc customers in preparation for the scheduled February launch date.
Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) customers using Orc can now take advantage of Orc’s solution on the new HKEx Orion platform. Orc’s HKEx Orion OMD-C binary market data protocol support is already accessible for multiple securities data feeds. Additionally, the HKEx Orion Central Gateway (OCG) binary trading protocol support is planned to be available for the scheduled Q2 2014 launch.
Finally, in Europe, Orc has successfully upgraded to both the Eurex NTA Release 2.0 and the Milllenium 8.0 platform which allows clients to access new functional and technical enhancements.
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Entitlements
If you are trying to meet compliance requirements regarding user access controls, or looking to protect against unauthorized changes to trading parameters, then you might be interested in Orc’s new role-based user rights control functionality for the Orc platform.
Orc is excited to introduce this unified system that configures granular read and write access permission for Orc users. The new entitlement framework enables customers to define permissions for different roles and the ability to assign roles to different Orc users. It also provides a single framework for configuring access to data and capabilities throughout an Orc environment and finally, provides the ability to give users granular access to information they need and nothing more.
Orc is currently piloting the Entitlements functionality and will provide a full Entitlements release in early 2014. If you are interested in becoming a pilot partner, please email marketing@orc-group.com.
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