New York, January 10, 2012 – GFI FENICS SM announced the expansion of its agreement with Cambridge Mercantile Corporation of Toronto, Canada for the licensing of FENICS Professional™ to include its Montreal and Vancouver offices. FENICS Professional has allowed Cambridge Mercantile Corp to broaden their range of services as part of their aggressive growth strategy.<
Bernard Heitner, CEO, Cambridge Mercantile Corp. said, “We are keen on staying at the forefront of the market place with the range and depth of services we can provide to clients. Adding FX options to our product suite has been an important step for us and we selected FENICS Professional as we deemed it to be the best platform to suit our needs in FX options pricing, risk management, and transaction processing. The ease of deployment of the platform made it simple to extend the functionality to our Montreal and Vancouver offices”.
Sue Poulin, Commercial Head of GFI FENICS for the Americas commented, “We have an excellent relationship with Cambridge Mercantile Corp. and are delighted that we can help them with the expansion of their business. Our product makes it easy to cater to the needs of our clients and assist them in developing and growing their FX options business.”
Ms. Poulin added: “GFI FENICS offers a robust solution for FX options pricing, analysis, and reporting. It has seen strong growth in the Americas over the last year as it continues to prove itself as a market-leading provider of FX options technology”.
The Cambridge Mercantile Group, founded in 1992, provides businesses trading internationally, foreign exchange and global payments services. Cambridge Mercantile provides access to in-depth risk management and payment solutions in order to meet client needs with the best possible advice and solutions.
FENICS Professional is a suite of pricing, trading, risk management and STP (straight-through processing) components allowing customers to control, monitor and oversee a comprehensive range of FX option trading and lifecycle management from one single interface.
GFI FENICS has been providing leading FX derivatives software since 1987. Its products are licensed to over 350 institutions worldwide with thousands of users benefiting from its solutions. Clients include banks, multinational corporations, brokers, and hedge funds.
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About GFI Group Inc.
GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: “GFIG”) is a leading provider of wholesale brokerage services, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets.
GFI Group Inc. provides brokerage services, market data, trading platform and analytics software products to institutional clients in markets for a range of fixed income, financial, equity and commodity instruments.
Fenics Software Limited is a subsidiary of GFI Group Inc.
Headquartered in New York, GFI was founded in 1987 and employs more than 2,200 people with additional offices in London, Paris, Nyon, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Cape Town, Santiago, Bogota, Dubai, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Calgary, Los Angeles and Sugar Land (TX). GFI Group Inc. provides services and products to over 2,600 institutional clients, including leading investment and commercial banks, corporations, insurance companies and hedge funds. Its brands include GFI(SM), GFInet®, CreditMatch®, GFI ForexMatch®, EnergyMatch®, FENICS®, Starsupply®, Amerex®, Trayport® and Kyte®.
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