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CDM Pekao Chooses SunGard's Valdi for Warsaw Stock Exchange Connectivity
June 13, 2012 — Warsaw, Poland
Centralny Dom Maklerski Pekao S.A. (CDM Pekao), one of the largest securities firms in Poland and part of the UniCredit Group, has selected Valdi for direct market access trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE).
CDM Pekao specializes in offering multi-asset, multi-market trading access to retail investors. Its traders will use SunGard’s Valdi workstations, trading tools and gateways for trading connectivity to the exchange.
Wojciech Rutkowski, president of the management board at CDM Pekao, said, “Our parent company UniCredit Group has a long-standing relationship with SunGard. In addition to the success of that relationship, we selected SunGard’s Valdi because of its comprehensive functionality and scalable architecture that can support our growth. A reliable vendor partner like SunGard gives us confidence that we can seamlessly migrate our trading business when the WSE introduces the new NYSE Euronext UTP trading engine later this year, as well as helping us fully leverage the engine’s new capabilities.”
Philippe Carré, global head of connectivity for SunGard’s capital markets business, said, “Many Polish brokers are re-evaluating their technology infrastructures as the move to the Warsaw Stock Exchange’s new trading platform gets closer. SunGard is helping customers like CDM Pekao by providing the functionality, low latency and scalability that they need to migrate to the exchange’s new technology and help expand their business.”
About CDM Pekao
Centralny Dom Maklerski Pekao S.A. (CDM Pekao SA Securities) is one of the largest brokers on the Polish equities market. It is part of the Pekao Group and indirectly of the UniCredit Group, one of the greatest financial concerns in Europe. CDM Pekao SA Securities offers investment products for the individual customers. With CDM support they can open an investment account and trade on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and 16 other foreign markets. Apart from that they can choose from ca. 150 investments funds and other financial products we have in our offer, like shares, bonds, futures and options. For the customers who deal actively at the stock exchange market, we prepared a customized offer and support of the dedicated staff.
About SunGard’s Valdi
SunGard’s Valdi is a suite of electronic trading solutions for equities and listed derivatives. Valdi offers fully automated or high touch order management, trade execution and liquidity management; pre- and post-trade risk and compliance; and market data. With a suite of hosted services and connectivity to the SunGard Global Network (SGN), Valdi helps customers cost-effectively execute trades across multiple platforms, instruments and geographies. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com/360trading.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and was ranked 480 on the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com.
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