SYDNEY & HONG KONG & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orc Group AB (SSE: ORC), a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, today announced Westpac Banking Corporation has deployed Orc Trading to support its options trading and warrants market making operations on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The order was booked in Q1, 2011, and the contract is based on Orc’s licensing subscription model.
Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac) was founded in 1817 and was the first bank established in Australia. The Westpac Group provides financial and investment services to retail customers, multi-national corporate, institutional and government clients. Westpac’s equity derivatives trading desk recently adopted Orc’s technology to scale up their options trading and warrants market making business. The solution provides Westpac with non-membership DMA trading access to the ASX.
“Together with its rich functionality, Orc’s solution has also enabled our team to adapt our proprietary pricing models for the pricing of our warrants and exchange traded options, which allows us to both efficiently make markets on the exchange and capture more trading opportunities,” said Craig Keats, Executive Director, Head of Trading and Risk, Equities,
Westpac Banking Corporation. “Orc is well known in the Australian market for providing high performance market making solutions. We are really pleased to be in a position to leverage Orc’s market leading technology and gain an edge in the markets.”
“Providing solutions for warrant and ETO market makers is a core part of our offering, and the addition of Westpac to our client base is a testament to the performance of our solutions within this space,” said Peter McPhee, VP, Sales APAC, Orc Group. “Orc’s powerful trading technology combined with our DMA connectivity, provides exchange members and non members alike with a scalable solution that enables them to trade efficiently locally or globally.”
The Orc Trading solutions are used by leading financial firms worldwide for market making, volatility trading and high-frequency trading. Together with access to all major cash and derivatives markets and a network of brokers, this is truly an unmatched offering. Orc Trading is available both as deployed software and as a managed service.
About Orc Group revenue model
Standard agreements follow Orc’s licensing subscription model, a flexible approach designed to streamline the customer on boarding process and provide ease of access to software updates, together with a mature support framework. Customers are invoiced quarterly, in advance, and revenue allocated to the invoicing period.
About Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac)
Westpac has branches and affiliates throughout Australia, New Zealand and the near Pacific region and maintains offices in key financial centres around the world including London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.
About Orc
Orc is a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry. Orc delivers trading and market access solutions used by proprietary trading and market making firms, investment banks, hedge funds and brokerage houses worldwide.
Available as deployed software or as managed services, Orc develops and provides the tools needed for running profitable trading or brokerage businesses in today’s competitive and ever-changing markets.
With market presence in all major global financial centers, Orc provides sales and support services from its offices across EMEA, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific regions.
Orc Group AB is publicly traded on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm (SSE: ORC).