YOUDEVISE’S TRADE IDEA TECHNOLOGY NAMED
“INNOVATION OF THE YEAR”
NEW YORK & LONDON, June 14, 2006 – youDevise
Limited announced today that the industry utility it built
for the simultaneous transmission of time-sensitive trade
ideas from sell-side brokers and their institutional, hedge
fund and proprietary trading desk clients was named
“Innovation of the Year” in The Banker magazine’s
annual Technology Awards for 2006.
youDevise built the Repository and Distribution Centre
(RDC) technology for a consortium consisting of Citigroup,
Credit Suisse, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Merrill
Lynch. Separately, youDevise developed the Trade Idea Monitor
(the TIM), an on-demand, web accessible front-end application
to the RDC.
“We’re honored with the recognition that this
prestigious award fromThe
Banker magazine confers on our technology,” said
Colin Berthoud, Director of youDevise.
The Banker
Technology Awards 2006 recognize innovation and
excellence of technical applications and services for the
front, middle and back-office functions in financial services
companies and strategies used by these companies to
effectively use technology.The Banker, which is a
UK-based business publication of the Financial Times,
received close to 300 entries for the 2006 awards. The awards
were made on the basis of objective and results-oriented
criteria by a panel of highly respected industry leaders,
including Bob Fuller, Head of IT, Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein; Clive Hawkins, Managing Director Equity IT, UBS;
Pekke Jarvinen, Vice President, Head of R&D, Nordea; and
Clive Whincup, Business Partnership Director, Lloyds TSB.
The TIM also makes it easy for brokers to author detailed
ideas and provides idea recipients with powerful tools for
tracking the performance of ideas and the brokers who
authored them, to aid in fast decision-making and in the
allocation of brokerage commissions. Prior to the TIM,
sellside ideas were communicated via telephone, email or by
keying them into multiple client systems, and money managers
tracked them on paper, spreadsheets or custom systems.
Contacts:
Colin Berthoud, youDevise Limited, London
+ 44-20-7826-4302
colin.berthoud@youdevise.com
Jeff McKenzie, Anreder & Company, New York City
+1-212-532-3232
jeff.mckenzie@anreder.com
About youDevise
Limited
youDevise Limited (www.youDevise.com),
based in London, provides on-demand applications for
financial markets. The company’s leading applications
provide portfolio management for liquid and illiquid assets.
They include the Trade Idea Monitor (the TIM), for the
high-speed communication of equity trade ideas and portfolio
ideas between institutional brokers and their money manager
and hedge fund clients, and the Hedge Fund Information
Provider (the HIP), the first commercially available
portfolio management system for funds of hedge funds. All
youDevise’ applications leverage its proprietary
Information Distribution Server (IDS), which facilitates the
exchange of data between different market participants.