Introduction to Integration Systems EMEAAllister RichardsonManaging Director EMEAAllister.richardson@integrationsystems.com

Who we are• Capital Markets focused technology experts using science

innovation to deliver application and technology solutions:• Systems Integration

• Exchange solutions, Trading Systems, Algorithmic testing platforms, Real time surveillance, Risk Analysis, Market data protection

• Managed Services for financial organisations• InStream - On demand trade latency monitoring, • InSafe – Managed security service for capital markets• InCloud – STAC based IaaS, PaaS, DRaaS• InTrax – Asset management service• InSure – Bespoke managed desktop, voice and infrastructure

• Consultancy• Performance (HFT, Options/Derivatives systems, Database, Application,

Middleware, Network, Risk Analysis)• IT consolidation, optimisation, virtualisation• Data (Data Protection, Surveillance, Risk Analysis, Compliancy)

• Technology Solution Sales• Power, Storage, x86, Middleware, Networking, O/S, Trader

workstations, Trade flow monitoring, FPGA, GPU

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UK Focus Areas• Financial Markets

• Trading infrastructure• Market Data• Analytics• Surveillance• Risk Management• Back Testing• Hedge fund solutions front and back office• Latency monitoring and consultancy• Regulatory compliancy and Risk analytics

• General Business• High performance systems, storage and networking• Data replication and business continuity• Virtualisation and cloud based solutions• Open systems O/S and Database

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EMEA vendor partners

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Customer Story: Global Stock Exchange

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The ChallengeThis large stock exchange sits at the heart of the world’s financial community. The group operates in highly competitive global market and provides a broad range services around international equity, bond and derivatives markets. To ensure its competitiveness the exchange needs to operate a high performance resilient infrastructure for its clients consisting of servers, storage, networks and software. In 2009 the exchange’s software platform was underperforming and had system-wide outages causing the exchange to lose business to its (increasing) competition. A new platform was urgently required.

The SolutioniSys worked with an exchange software provider to provide a brand new state of the art exchange platform for the exchange. In order to ensure a smooth transition iSys and the ISV extensively tested the exchange software on the IBM server platform before working on site to provide the project management and implementation skills to ensure a smooth migration of over 650 servers in both the primary and disaster recovery data centers.

The ResultsSince switching to the new technology the exchange now has one of the fastest exchanges in the world. This has helped them grow their revenues from £628m in 2010 to £852m in 2013 (135.8% growth) and profit jump from £91.7m to £215.5m (235% growth).

Customer Story: Pensions Risk Solution as a Service

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The ChallengeThe client is a financial technology business that provides intuitive, user-friendly risk analytics and business intelligence solutions to organisations looking manage their pensions investments. They were looking for a high performance cloud infrastructure to serve as their application delivery platform in order to support their growth aspirations for their Software as a Service (SaaS).

The SolutioniSys worked with vendor partners Mellanox and SuperMicro to deliver the clients private cloud architecture. The solution is based on iSys supplied SuperMicro Server technology running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Mellanox RDMA-enabled InfiniBand and ethernet interconnects. The solution provides a high-performance and cost effective solution that scales easily. The platform supports both SQL Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 and utilizes RDMA offloading, using both SMB Direct and Live Migration over RDMA, to greatly accelerate data analysis for clients. The solution also provides true multi-tenanted and isolated partitions through the use of NVGRE, providing a high-degree of security for the SaaS provider and its clients.

The ResultsThe client was recognised on the FinTech 50 2014 as one of the hottest FinTech Firms in Europe with their web-based platform for the risk management and reporting of pension plan assets, liabilities and risk.

Customer Story: Large FSS service provider

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The ChallengeThe client provides outsourced services for ultra-low latency trading, market data, hosting and infrastructure connectivity as well as risk management solutions to leading global banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading groups. They needed a trusted partner to help support them with their high performance low latency server requirements for their capital markets clients and to ensure that server, network and storage solutions were shipped to global exchanges in a consistent manner.

The SolutioniSys utilised its status as an IBM premier partner and its participation the IBM industry solutions programme to facilitate implementations and roll outs of the client solutions to exchanges globally. iSys provides the client with standard build and deployments services as well as duty paid delivery and integration in all the major exchanges globally. In addition iSys works with the client on global outsourcing projects to assist in the supply and delivery of trading infrastructure from Network infrastructure to trader workstations.

The ResultsThe client is able to service its clients with 100% vendor supported solutions on a global basis with the growth supporting its inclusion in FinTech 50 in 2014.

Customer Story: Global Commodities Exchange

Algorithmic Testing Platform

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The ChallengeThis famous commodities exchange sits at the heart of the world’s financial community. The group operates in highly competitive global market and is the center for the trading of industrial metals with more than 80% of all non-ferrous metal futures business being transacted on their platform. The exchange is seeking to increase its algorithmic trading volumes and wanted to provide a a real-time synthetic test environment for members and their clients as set out in the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) guidelines.

The SolutioniSys provided a brand new state of the art testing platform for the exchange. The testing platform can achieve much more than regular back testing solutions as the system provides a fully interactive and dynamic environment mirroring live trading behaviour on the exchanges electronic trading platform. Members and clients can now benefit from a system that uses custom algorithms that generate order flow enabling members to test their trading strategies and supporting systems in an environment similar, but not identical to, the live market. In addition, the exchange can stress the simulated market in a variety of ways, for example, by providing strong directional price pressure or high order rates.

The ResultsThe exchange now provides a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) conforming test platform that allows the members to test and tune their algorithms in a safe near live environment.