Calypso Technology

Tuesday, February 18, 2003

DataSynapse Partners with Calypso Technology to Scale Front/Middle-office Analytics and Decision Support

San Francisco, 18 February 2003 – Calypso Technology, provider of cross-asset front-to-back trading systems, and DataSynapse, provider of a leading self-managed, grid computing platform announced today an integrated solution: the grid computing capability of DataSynapse's LiveCluster™ joined with the trading platform of Calypso. The companies also announced the adoption of this joint solution by Wachovia Corporation.

Calypso is a modern, front-to-back trading system with broad support for asset classes and business functionality. DataSynapse's guaranteed grid computing platform, LiveCluster, enables clients to meet the workload of hundreds of traders, risk managers, and IT professionals in a real-time environment without incurring additional hardware, development, or support costs.

The announced integration will permit calculations within Calypso to be performed faster by distributing them over a network of computers via LiveCluster. This applies equally to client proprietary analytics integrated into Calypso with their open application programming interfaces (APIs). These proprietary analytics are then automatically available for distribution via LiveCluster without modification. Calypso and LiveCluster are written entirely in the Java programming language and integrate seamlessly in a client's architecture.

"Our partnership with DataSynapse benefits all concerned," said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso Technology. "Good decisions depend on timely information, but the analytics of trading and risk have become more complex and compute intensive. Our clients can speed up these calculations using grid computing via LiveCluster."

"Calypso is the market leader for cross-asset trading and processing systems," said Peter Lee, CEO of DataSynapse. "Our joint success with Calypso validates our partnering strategy with leading financial application software providers."

Calypso and DataSynapse expect to work together with several financial institutions, as they did with Wachovia.

"The combination of Calypso's STP framework with DataSynapse's grid computing has had a significant impact on our fixed income derivatives area over the past two years," said Andy Cook, Director, U.S. Dollar Derivatives, Wachovia Corp. "We evaluated several alternatives. Calypso and DataSynapse gave us the fastest implementation. This year we will trade over $1 billion in fixed income and related capital markets products using Calypso and DataSynapse, and we plan to extend our use of their integrated solution."

"Implementing complex models over large portfolios while still maintaining adequate levels of performance to facilitate trading is a major challenge throughout the financial services industry." said Debbie Williams, Group Vice President, Capital Markets and Corporate Banking, Financial Insights (formerly Meridien Research). "End user applications are increasingly dependent on the layers of software and hardware to facilitate this performance. It will take partnerships like this one between DataSynapse and Calypso to make these processes run smoothly."

About DataSynapse
DataSynapse, Inc. (http://www.datasynapse.com/) enables applications requiring scalability to exploit distributed computing capabilities by efficiently utilizing the overall IT environment. DataSynapse deploys a self-managed, guaranteed, distributed computing platform, LiveCluster, that delivers order of magnitude increases in the speed and reliability of software applications while substantially reducing clients' total cost of ownership and accelerating their time-to-deploy. LiveCluster solves compute- and data-intensive bottlenecks and scalability constraints by unobtrusively harnessing the power of servers, clusters and/or desktops anywhere on a client's network, whether dedicated or underutilized. LiveCluster integrates easily with new or legacy applications running on Linux, Unix, or Windows systems. DataSynapse is headquartered in New York, with offices in London, Houston, Chicago, Washington D.C. and San Francisco.

Monday, February 3, 2003

The Royal Bank of Scotland, Financial Markets to Provide Global Capital Markets Operations Processing on Calypso System

San Francisco, 03 February 2003 – Calypso Technology announced today that it has been selected by The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Financial Markets for Capital Markets Operations processing globally.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is the fifth largest bank globally by market capitalization and has a significant Capital Markets business. Capital Markets originates, trades and researches vanilla and structured debt capital securities across a range of asset classes, industry sectors, maturities and currencies across the credit spectrum, from Gilts and Euro-government Bonds to High Yield Bonds.

"We looked for a system that would deliver core functionality 'out of the box' whilst also providing us with the potential to develop functionality using a toolkit. This will enable us to support any business expansion and improve STP in a cost effective manner " said David Hefford, Global Head of Risk and Operations Technology at RBS Financial Markets. "Calypso addressed most of our requirements out of the box and will be extending the product according to our specifications".

RBS wants to deliver a scalable solution to support the Capital Markets business and also integrate with the strategic application architecture across Financial Markets.
"We are developing a processing infrastructure that will serve Financial Markets well into the future," added Hefford. "Calypso has the technical features to be a core component of the processing infrastructure for Capital Markets business and fits in well with our technical architecture.

The initial project is planned to go live in the second half of 2003. Calypso will eventually process the full range of Capital Markets products that RBS Financial Markets trades, from Gilts and Euro-government bonds to high-yield.

"We are excited about working with The Royal Bank of Scotland," said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso Technology. "We see this as the start of a long partnership. It is through relationships like this that we have built our growing presence in the market."

About The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland is a broadly based financial services group with operations spanning clearing banking, corporate banking, financial services, investment management and insurance, both in the UK and overseas. It is the second largest in bank in Europe and the fifth largest banking group in the world by market capitalisation. The Group serves over 18 million customers. Through its Financial Markets division it provides specialist services in global foreign exchange, currency and structured derivatives, money markets, together with a wide range of interest rate management services to The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest international corporate and institutional client base. For further information, please visit http://www.rbsmarkets.com/

Monday, November 4, 2002

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein chooses Calypso for securities processing

San Francisco, 4 November 2002 – Calypso Technology announced today that investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) has chosen Calypso for its global securities processing, with the first component of the new system due to go live for Tri-Party Repo on 4 th November 2002.

The project as a whole covers the bank’s cash equities and bonds businesses as well as its securities lending and borrowing operations, all of which fall within DrKW’s Capital Markets business line. The project will be delivered jointly by DrKW’s IT and Operations departments.

“Cost reduction through consolidating systems infrastructure onto more efficient processing platforms is a major goal of the project,” said Mark Dovaston, Managing Director, Information Technology at DrKW. “Once implemented, Calypso will also reduce both the number of exceptions and the cost of processing those that occur.”

“We are confident that the new technology will help improve our processes and flexibility, delivering benefits not only to us as an organisation but also, critically, to our clients ” added Nigel Whitehouse, Global Head of Operations.

Calypso provides real-time information on positions, collateral, margin calls, upcoming settlements, and fails to Operations staff, who can then in turn support the front office more effectively. The software aims to help the financial industry solve problems of cost control, ensure more effective trading, and streamline operations through IT innovation.

“DrKW Frankfurt already uses Calypso for FX and money markets. We are delighted that the success there has led them to extend the product to the global securities business,” said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso Technology.

About Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) is the investment bank within the Corporates and Markets Division of Dresdner Bank AG, a member of the Allianz Group since July 2001. Headquartered in London, Frankfurt and New York and with an international network of offices, DrKW provides a wide range of investment bank products and services to European and international clients through its Investment Banking, and Capital Markets business lines.

Monday, September 30, 2002

Capco and Calypso Announce Global Technology Training Program

San Francisco, 30 September 2002 – As Sibos 2002 commences, Capco, the global services and technology solutions provider focused exclusively on the financial services industry, and Calypso Technology, vendor of cross-asset trading and processing systems based on the industry's most modern platform, announce the availability of the first Calypso Technology certified education program.

The Calypso system delivers a full suite of trading and processing functions that include trade structuring, settlements, and accounting. It is based on a multi-tier architecture and implemented entirely in Java in order to take advantage of the rapid development and flexible connectivity to enterprise resources afforded by the Java platform.

With Capco's profound expertise in the financial services industry and the increased demand for Calypso solutions as the industry embraces straight-through processing (STP), the two companies decided to join forces to meet this growing demand for training for users of Calypso products.

Yannick Bollati, Managing Principal, Capco says: "The training programme which we have developed is designed specifically for business analysts and technology specialists involved in Calypso projects. By the end of the course, participants will be able to confidently implement the Calypso system in order to maximise the benefits it will bring to achieving STP within the business environment."

"Calypso Technology is delighted to work with Capco on this global training programme", says Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso Technology. "The significant increase in organisations wanting to use our products has obviously resulted in an equally significant increase in the demand for training so that organisations can reap the utmost benefit from our offering. We see the training programme as an integral part of the Calypso value added offering."

The training includes several product modules. It is composed of a functional and a technical stream, offering a mixture of theoretical principles, concepts, and a series of exercises.

Attendees gain functional insight into the scope and possibilities of the Calypso system by learning how to (i) set up static data, (ii) process trades using the Calypso workstation, and (iii) translate back-office business processes into Calypso workflow configurations.

The technical stream specifically focuses on the fundamental architecture principles upon which Calypso is built and the development of extensions in the Java language in order to get an understanding of the various possibilities of extensibility such as building interfaces or extending Calypso server functionality.

About Capco:
Capco (http://www.capco.com/) is the first services and technology solutions provider exclusively focused on forming the future of finance. We dramatically improve clients' financial and operational performance, risk profile, and return on IT investments by seamlessly integrating business strategy and process with technology implementation.

The firm has integrated capabilities in thought leadership, business strategy, technology services, software components, insourcing, and ventures. These are augmented through an alliance network - providing comprehensive, scalable solutions and reduced project risk. We have 650 employees in the major financial centres around the globe and focus on capital markets, private client services, asset management, and banking clients.

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

HSBC Goes Live on Calypso's New Credit Derivatives System

San Francisco, 27 August 2002 – Calypso Technology announced today that HSBC Bank USA has gone live on Calypso's new credit derivatives system. The Bank will use the system for front-to-back processing for a broad range of credit derivatives.

"We have been eager to have the new system in place," said Sandeep Saksena, Head of Derivatives and FX IT at HSBC Bank USA. Now, we can easily manage the whole trade life cycle-structuring, valuation, credit events, payments. We've reduced our time-to-market for new products, and increased our control of the business."

The system was developed jointly by Calypso and HSBC. Calypso enhanced its application suite to support the full range of credit derivative products including basket default and total return swaps. Using Calypso's open API's, HSBC integrated the system into the bank's technical environment, and incorporated its separately developed and maintained components, such as new proprietary products and analytics.

"With this system, we can continue to use our proprietary analytics and develop our own new products, while Calypso maintains and enhances the core software," added Saksena. "We now have a solid technical infrastructure for this vital business."

"The credit derivatives market has grown to the point many players feel the early internal systems they put in place are now holding them back. Nor have existing vendor products kept pace. With HSBC's input we have built a system that will support their business today and well into the future," said Kishore Bopardikar, President of Calypso. "Technology that enables, not inhibits."

About HSBC Bank USA
HSBC Bank USA has more than 410 branches in New York State, giving it the most extensive branch network in New York. The bank also has eight branches in Florida, two in Pennsylvania, three in California and 17 in Panama.

HSBC Bank USA is the tenth largest US commercial bank ranked by assets and is a subsidiary of HSBC USA Inc, an indirectly-held, wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HBC). Headquartered in London, and with over 7,000 offices in 81 countries and territories, the HSBC Group is one of the world's leading banking and financial services organizations. For more information about HSBC Bank USA and its products and services visit http://www.us.hsbc.com/.

Monday, July 8, 2002

Major European Bank Selects Calypso's Processing System

San Francisco, 08 July 2002 – Calypso Technology announced today that ING Bank is implementing Calypso for its treasury processing. The system will be installed initially at Banque Bruxelles Lambert (BBL), a subsidiary of ING. The implementation is part of ING's plan to reduce operational costs by consolidating its back office processing.

Last year, ING decided to bring together the processing for the financial markets businesses of ING Bank, ING Barings, BBL, BHF, and other subsidiaries. By consolidating the operations and IT platforms of these units in shared service centers, ING plans to lower costs and provide improved customer service.

Calypso will provide the processing software that makes this strategy viable, giving ING the potential to process in one system all of the financial products traded by its various legal entities. Moreover, the software is consistent with ING's desired infrastructure for the future. Calypso is modular in design, written in Java, and scales well as volumes increase. The system is designed and built to support centralized processing in large financial organizations.

"When a bank upgrades its processing infrastructure," said Kishore Bopardikar, President of Calypso, "it is a long-term decision. It demands a platform that can support its business now and well into the future. We are pleased ING sees us as that system. This announcement, along with other recent customer announcements, shows that Calypso is now the processing system of choice for top-tier firms."

Monday, October 15, 2001

Calypso Names New Asia-Pacific GM

San Francisco, 15 October 2001 – Continuing its rapid expansion, Calypso Technology announced today that Arnie Papp has joined as General Manager for Asia-Pacific. The Calypso real-time trading and processing system has already attracted customers such as HSBC, Dresdner Bank, Crédit Agricole Indosuez, and Wachovia-First Union. Papp will build a team to support Calypso's growth in Asia-Pacific, starting in Sydney where the company has just established an office and hired local support staff.

"Banks and brokerages throughout Asia-Pacific need to respond to the global trends of deregulation, greater transparency and T+1 settlement. At the same time they also need to reduce their cost structure to remain profitable in a highly competitive environment," said Papp. "Calypso has a unique product and I am excited to take part in the company's global expansion. We have chosen to start in Australia because of the pent-up demand for our system there. We will also be opening an office in Tokyo shortly."

Papp joins Calypso from GlobalSight Corporation, an enterprise software company, where he was Vice-President of Sales. His knowledge of the Asia-Pacific financial markets comes from his experience as Asia-Pacific GM for Infinity Financial Technology. In that role, he set up and managed Infinity's regional operations. Based in Tokyo, he developed and executed a successful business strategy that enabled the company to become the market leader in the region. He has also previously worked for Fuji Bank and Prudential Securities in Tokyo.

"Our software is critical to our customers' business," said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso. "We must be able to support them as well after their implementation as before. That means having local presence and knowledgeable people. Arnie's experience makes him uniquely qualified to grow our team and ensure our clients' success. He is an important addition to our senior management team. We are delighted that he has joined us."

HSBC Chooses Calypso for Global Operations

San Francisco, 15 October 2001 – Calypso Technology, Inc. announced today that HSBC Bank plc has chosen Calypso as the processing platform for the Group's worldwide treasury markets and securities trading operations.

Calypso will provide all back office processing including settlements and documentation, accounting and P&L. The first implementation will be for foreign exchange with money markets, equities, derivatives and fixed income to follow.

"Amongst our goals are the reduction of transaction costs and the enhancement of services to HSBC Group's customers," said Andy Mayer, Director of OPSCO, a recently formed unit to develop a global operations capability at HSBC. "We looked for a real-time platform that would give us, cross product straight-through-processing, and equally important, one built with a modern architecture. This is a strategic investment for us; we want a system to serve us for years to come."

"By consolidating global transaction processing onto Calypso we expect to achieve significant reductions in operating costs across the Group and to enhance shareholder value. Calypso can support a high volume 24 x 7 business, which was a key evaluation criteria," Mr. Mayer explained,

HSBC also sees benefits beyond the cost savings. "Increasingly, new customer services are technology based," said Mr. Mayer. "To succeed, you need an environment that allows you to innovate-flexibility and time to market are key here. With Calypso we can implement new ideas quickly, and still keep tight control of our businesses."

"This is a major step for both our firms," said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso. "HSBC's commitment to building a technology infrastructure for the future is impressive, and we are delighted they selected us as partners. It shows the value that we, a new and innovative software company, can bring to the largest financial organizations."

"From our inception, we have focused on core processing and the strategic role of technology in financial markets," said Kishore Bopardikar, President of Calypso. "Clearly, this relationship validates that focus, and shows us emerging as a leader in our market."

About HSBC
Headquartered in London, the HSBC Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world. Serving 29 million customers, HSBC's international network comprises some 5,500 offices in 78 countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.

Thursday, June 14, 2001

Société Générale subsidiary selects Calypso for Equity Derivatives

San Francisco, 14 June 2001 – Calypso Technology announced today that ClickOptions, a subsidiary of Société Générale, is using Calypso as the back-end core processing system for its new retail equity derivatives business. ClickOptions went live in France in May and will be rolled out to other countries later this year.

"Time to profitability is critical for us," said Lionel Gibert, Managing Director of ClickOptions. "With Calypso we have been able to develop an integrated business solution for our back end operations. We were able to go live much quicker than if we had had to juggle different pieces of software."

ClickOptions will give its customers Web-based access for trading and managing equity derivatives positions. The Calypso system provides all the back-end functionality for this site. It maintains customer accounts, produces trade tickets, updates positions, and manages the settlement process.

As well as the out-of-the-box application functionality, ClickOptions was also attracted by the flexibility of the system. The Calypso system's n-tier 100% Java architecture allows clients to add new functionality easily. "We had some unique requirements, such as the ability to support our proprietary new trading products," added Gibert. "Calypso's Java framework lets us keep control of these proprietary developments even while they are functionally integrated in the system."

"Calypso combines core processing and Internet deployment," said Kishore Bopardikar, President of Calypso. "ClickOptions' experience shows that we can deliver a complete Web-based trading solution-from clicked to settled. It further demonstrates the breadth of our system as we add another asset class to the list of those for which customers have chosen Calypso. That list now includes foreign exchange, money markets, fixed-income, equities, and interest-rate derivatives as well as equity derivatives."

About ClickOptions:
ClickOptions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Société Générale, a world leader in the trading of complex equity and equity-index products. ClickOptions was created in October 2000 to enable individual investors to understand and participate in the equity derivatives market. www.clickoptions.com was launched in France in May, 2001 and will be rolled out to other European countries later this year.

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Dresdner upgrades its processing platform with Calypso

San Francisco, 24 May 2001 – Calypso Technology, Inc. announced today that Dresdner Bank has chosen Calypso for its foreign exchange (FX) processing.

"We are building the capability to become a leading provider of insourcing solutions in our Transaction Banking Division," said John Orton, Head of IT, Global Cash Management & Treasury Solutions. "Calypso technology provides us with the flexibility, responsiveness and scalability that we need to succeed in this market. We also like the Calypso people and the fact that they are willing and able to help us meet our very aggressive schedules."

Dresdner will install Calypso in Frankfurt where it has already consolidated settlement of its entire global FX business. The Calypso application will run round the clock in the Bank's state of the art e-commerce "web farm" environment, replacing a number of host-based systems.

Once the system is operational, Dresdner intends to offer trade-processing services to its corporate clients. The ability to scale up at low marginal costs will be key to the success of this effort. "We benchmarked Calypso to ensure that it can handle many times our current bank-wide volumes," said Dr. Christian Dachtler, Project Manager. "Moreover, we liked that Calypso has been designed to support an insourcing business."

"Competitive pressures often pull banks in seemingly opposite directions: cut spending to become more efficient, increase spending to innovate," said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso. "These are mirror images of the same problem. The right technology solution can make possible both lower costs and new services. This vision has guided the development of our product. We are delighted that Dresdner Bank was quick to see this combined value, and we look forward to working with them."

About Dresdner Bank AG
The Dresdner Bank Group is active worldwide with around 1,500 branches and over 50,000 employees in more than 70 countries, including all the major financial centers. Ranked by total assets, market capitalization and size of customer base, Dresdner Bank is one of Europe's leading banking groups.

Tuesday, April 10, 2001

Calypso selected by Crédit Agricole Indosuez

San Francisco, 10 April 2001 – Calypso Technology and Crédit Agricole Indosuez (CAI) announced today that CAI has selected Calypso's processing software to support its global fixed income business. The system will be used for all post-trade processing functions including P&L, settlements, and accounting. CAI plans to deploy the system in France later this year where it will replace a number of in-house mainframe-based systems.

The decision was a strategic one for CAI. "CAI is active in fixed income markets globally. As these markets evolve so must our processing infrastructure for us to remain competitive," said Francois Marion, Head of Systems and Operations of CAI. "Consolidating our fixed income business on Calypso will reduce the number of systems we maintain, lower our costs and improve our service."

One of CAI's goals is to increase the percentage of transactions that are processed automatically, without human intervention. "Calypso's automated processing will enable us to drive up our straight-through processing (STP) rates," explained Christian Laurenceau, Head of Operations at CAI. "Higher STP rates will mean fewer errors, and better customer service."

The Calypso system is built on a real-time, component-based architecture. A Java-based framework allows clients to tailor the functionality to their particular requirements. "The flexible framework makes it easy for us to fit Calypso into our existing environment," added Laurenceau.

"Financial markets are changing, nowhere more so than in Europe," said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso. "Success in this environment turns on efficiency and innovation-cut costs and create value. We are pleased that CAI sees the potential to achieve both goals with our software."

About Crédit Agricole Indosuez
A fully-fledged member of the Crédit Agricole Group, Crédit Agricole Indosuez is:

The capital markets arm of Crédit Agricole Group, occupying important positions in Europe in fixed income and foreign exchange, futures, and equity markets
The European private banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, though Banque de Gestion Privée Indosuez in France and in Europe through a strong presence in the 3 main European private markets
A corporate banking arm in the Crédit Agricole Group, having strengthened its long standing expertise in asset based finance and created new skills in corporate finance.

Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Calypso Goes Live At First Union Corporation

San Francisco, CA and Charlotte, NC, 06 February 2001 – Calypso Technology, Inc. and First Union Corporation announced today that First Union's Fixed Income Derivatives division is now live on the Calypso trading and processing system.

"In our business, innovation is the key to profitability. We wanted to speed up the process of taking a new product from concept to production," said Stuart Adams, head of Fixed Income Derivatives Trading at First Union. "We chose Calypso because it provides a framework that we use to add new products rapidly front-to-back. Since Calypso provides all the market standard functionality, our IT team is free to focus on issues that add value to our business. For example, we've developed proprietary analytics that we can plug into Calypso easily."

As well as providing the flexibility First Union needed, Calypso's 100% Java architecture allows the division to achieve straight-through processing (STP) for all the products it trades.

"STP requires automated flow of information between people and departments," said Thold Gill, head of Fixed Income Derivatives for First Union. "Calypso processes in real-time so people are aware of events-new trades, amendments, and so on-as they occur. This gives us much better control of how we do our business, and the quicker access to information has benefits beyond just control. Our marketers can be more efficient with client information like trades, advices, and special instructions readily available."

A longtime Sun Microsystems customer, First Union is deploying Calypso on a Sun EnterpriseTM E420R server running the SolarisTM Operating Environment. The implementation is proceeding in stages. A number of instruments are already processed on Calypso and they expect to transfer the remaining positions in the next few months.

"First Union's experience shows that Calypso is a highly flexible derivatives solution," stated Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso. "It also validates our cross-asset strategy. First Union is using the system for interest-rate derivatives. Other customers are implementing Calypso for foreign exchange, bonds, and equities."

About First Union
First Union (NYSE:FTU), with $254 billion in assets and stockholders' equity of $15 billion at December 31, 2000, is a leading provider of financial services to 15 million retail and corporate customers throughout the East Coast and the nation. The company operates full-service banking offices in 11 East Coast states and Washington, D.C., and full-service brokerage offices in 46 states. Online banking products and services can be accessed through http://www.firstunion.com/.
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