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Arcontech Limited Arcontech Group Plc, the real time market data technology specialist, announced today that David Anderson has been appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing. Andrew Miller, CEO of Arcontech said “David is a highly qualified and well known executive from our industry and will help accelerate our success, both in Market Data Systems and in the rapidly developing Spread Betting and CFD solutions business”. Anderson’s appointment follows the injection of £1.5 million of... more
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  Following evaluation against competitive products, Arcontech has been selected to supply its CityVision Excelerator real-time market data “add-in” for Microsoft Excel™ to a large European bank, replacing the incumbent solution. The Excelerator product allows traders to bring data into their spreadsheets in real time from multiple sources, including direct exchange feeds and the Reuter RMDS... more
Following a resolution at its AGM, KTS plc (Knowledge Technology Solutions) has changed it name to Arcontech Group plc, incorporating the name of its wholly owned subsidiary, Arcontech Limited, the real-time market data and trading systems software specialist. KTS plc acquired Arcontech Limited in September 2007 and shortly afterwards appointed Andrew Miller, its managing director as CEO of the... more
Arcontech, the wholly owned subsidiary of KTS plc has released version 3.4 of its AXE trading platform, aimed at brokers offering financial derivatives trading, such as Contracts for Difference (CFDs), to the retail market. Version 3.4 contains many new features, now fully supporting spread betting as well as CFDs.A significant enhancement is the inclusion of a new interface, written in... more
KTS is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Arcontech, a real-time software specialist providing products and bespoke systems for collection, processing, distribution and presentation of time-sensitive financial markets data, has completed the introduction of new feed handlers to integrate Equiduct’s data into its CityVision product suite. This gives customers access to the... more
Arcontech, a real-time software specialist providing products and bespoke systems for collection, processing, distribution and presentation of time-sensitive financial markets data, today announces the appointment, with effect from 24 June, of Chandra Dass as Business Development Manager. Chandra joins the Company with eighteen years of experience in Business Development and Sales roles at a... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions Plc (“KTS”), a leading provider of real-time data distribution and trading systems, has agreed to sell its Market Terminal subscription service information base to Ionic Information in order to cut operating costs and to develop the Arcontech CityVision trading and market data software businesses.
Alpha Terminal is owned by Ionic Information – an established... more
Arcontech –a leading developer of real-time market data software and wholly owned subsidiary of KTS plc– today unveiled CityVision dna the latest addition to its multi-award-winning CityVision software suite.The new component, short for CityVision dot net api, allows software engineers using Microsoft’s .net development environment to write applications to interoperate with Arcontech’s... more
Arcontech, a leading developer of real-time market data software, has won an award for the best real-time market data management solution – its fourth industry award in 13 months.Financial-i magazine, together with leading analyst firms and industry figures, selected Arcontech to receive the award at the annual Leaders in Innovation Awards.The awards were decided based upon product innovation... more
Cross-border customers and retail derivatives markets, such as Contracts for Difference (CfD) and Spread Betting, will be two areas presenting significant opportunity after the introduction on 1 November of MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) predicts Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Arcontech (part of KTS plc). Arcontech is an award-winning City software firm whose specialist... more
Arcontech, a leading developer of real-time market data software, has launched CityVision Calculation Engine, the latest addition to its award-winning CityVision software suite.CityVision, Arcontech’s platform for real-time data publishing, is well established and proven with major City institutions. The CityVision Calculation Engine (CCE) adds power to the platform by enabling high performance... more
Arcontech – a leading developer of real-time market data software – this week unveiled its AXE software product, aimed at brokers and start-ups wishing to cash-in on the burgeoning market for Contract for Difference (CfD) trading and Spread Betting. The AXE software utilises the award winning CityVision real-time software, coupled with 4th generation trading software, making it one of the most... more
Arcontech – a leading developer of real-time market data software – today unveiled its AXE software product, aimed at brokers and start-ups wishing to cash-in on the burgeoning market for Contract for Difference (CfD) trading and Spread Betting. The AXE software utilises the award winning CityVision real-time software, coupled with 4th generation trading software, making it one of the most... more
Arcontech - a leading developer of market data software - asserts that its CityVision suite is the fastest application on the market for publishing prices and other data in real time, with latest performance details showing competitors are still struggling to match its speed.Andrew Miller, managing director of Arcontech, says: “In today’s electronic markets with increasing volumes and high... more
Arcontech - a leading developer of real-time market data software – has announced the first independent feed handler for Chi-X®, the recently launched pan-European ATS (to be known as a multi-lateral trading facility on the introduction of MiFID). This brings free market data a step closer by enabling Chi-X data to be distributed via Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet applications, used by... more
Arcontech, a leading developer of real-time market data software, has taken first place in two categories in the prestigious 2007 The Banker Technology awards announced today.The Banker magazine, together with leading analyst firms and consultants from the banking industry, selected Arcontech to receive the awards for the ‘best market data management system’ and ‘best best execution... more
Faster than RTD and compatible with Chi-X and other Mifid data sourcesArcontech - a leading developer of real-time market data software – has today unveiled version 4 of CityVision Excelerator, its flagship application for allowing traders, analysts and other market data users to receive data real-time into Microsoft Excel™, whether from a network or from the internet.Andrew Miller, managing... more
Arcontech - a leading developer of real-time market data software has unveiled EuroVision - an application which will help banks and brokers with their best-execution obligations under MiFID. It will allow firms to check equities prices across any number of pan-European execution venues to give best prices visibility in-line with their best execution policy.EuroVision (part of Arcontech’s... more
Arcontech - a leading developer of real-time market data software - at its user group meeting yesterday (Thursday 25 January) unveiled full information detailing how its CityVision suite can facilitate compliance with MiFID (Market in Financial Instruments Directive).Capabilities explained and demonstrated were:. Construction of per-venue market depth (level 2) order books; . Price and symbology... more
Pre-trade, post-trade and best execution amongst components demonstratedArcontech - a leading developer of real-time market data software - at its user group meeting yesterday (Thursday 25 January) unveiled full information detailing how its CityVision suite can facilitate compliance with MiFID (Market in Financial Instruments Directive).Capabilities explained and demonstrated were:. Construction... more
Andrew Miller, CEO of Arcontech, the supplier of real-time data distribution systems and desktop integration software announced today his prediction of greatly increased revenues from CityVision Excelerator, its flagship product for global real-time data publishing based on Microsoft Excel™.The Excelerator suite allows traders, analysts and other users of market data to publish and exchange data... more
Arcontech - a leading developer of real-time market data software – will unveil, in January at its user group, how its CityVision suite is now fully ready to facilitate compliance with MiFID (Market in Financial Instruments Directive) regardless of the detailed requirements which are yet to be clarified.Andrew Miller, Arcontech’s Managing director, said: “Whilst the details of MiFID are yet... more
Arcontech, a leading developer of real-time market data software, has won an award for the most innovative real-time data management solution.Financial-I magazine, together with leading analyst firms and consultants from the wholesale banking industry, selected Arcontech to receive the award at the Leaders in Innovation Awards on 9 November.The awards were decided based upon product innovation... more
Leading City software specialist upgrades product suite ready for MiFIDArcontech - a leading developer of real-time market data software – has today unveiled the latest addition to its cutting edge CityVision product: the StarNet Enterprise Status Navigator.CityVision, Arcontech’s suite of software components for real-time data publishing, is well established and proven with major City... more
Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time data distribution systems and desktop integration software has announced a free trial of CityVision JStation, giving access to teletext pages over the internet.JStation is a browser-delivered 'thin client' desktop for real-time market data display. JStation is vendor independent, one of the many feeds it supports is teletext generated from the various TV... more
Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time data distribution systems and desktop integration software has announced the latest release of its object oriented 'add-in' technology for Microsoft Excel™, CityVision Excelerator.The Excelerator suite allows traders, analysts and other users of market data to receive, manipulate and re-publish data in true real-time, with sophisticated traffic... more
London 20th June 2006 - A major vendor of real-time market data terminal services has gone live with Arcontech's CityVision StarNet real-time market data aggregator, supporting pan-European data contributions from the investment banking community.The StarNet system went into production earlier this year and is currently receiving real-time data content from about a dozen banks, primarily... more
London 4th June 2006 - Following its successes in the 2004 and 2005 awards, Arcontech's CityVision real-time market data platform has again been selected in the 2006 honours list, this time in fiercely contested 'Networking Initiative of the Year' category.In the 2004 awards, CityVision won the award for 'Best Technology to the Sell-Side', with its Multiple Vendor Contribution System (MVCS). Last... more
London, 10 May 2006. Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time market data price distribution and order routing technology today has expanded on its pan-European plans to facilitate compliance for financial institutions impacted by MiFID regulation.Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Arcontech said: “Working with the MiFID Joint Working Group, we’ve identified three key areas where our... more
Interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2005Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), the independent provider of real-time market data services, reports its unaudited results for the six months ended 31 December 2005.Financial and business highlights:· Turnover increased by 26% to £720,278 (2004: £572,283) · Continued investment in R&D and enhanced exchange coverage... more
Driven by a significant market demand for highly efficient, quickly scaleable, very low latency and dynamically configurable data management systems Arcontech’s CityVision product suite is fast gaining a reputation as the system of choice for a range of high profile financial institutions. Arcontech has made major investment in strategic developments to strengthen the CityVision product for... more
London, 8th December 2005. Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time market data price distribution and order routing technology, focused its regular user group meeting last week on MiFID, the new European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive for price transparency.MiFID requires investment firms to publish firm pre-trade quotes and to be prepared and able to trade on them. Additionally,... more
London, 21st November 2005. Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time market data price distribution and order routing technology today announced its plans to help City firms address their compliance issues using the highly flexible CityVision market data platform.Speaking in advance of the CityVision user group meeting to be held later this month, Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Arcontech... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (‘KTS’), provider of professional financial information services, is pleased to announce that Saheed Oyedele, 32, has been promoted to Head of Client Services.Saheed has considerable experience in the market data industry, having worked at the London Stock Exchange and subsequently Thomson Financial during the past 15 years.In his new role, Saheed, who joined... more
12 October 2005Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (“KTS”), the independent provider of real-time market data services, announces its preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2005. Financial and business highlights:• Turnover up 62% to £1.25 million (2004: £770,185)• Group loss before tax of £966,536 (2004: £940,161)• Cash position of £1.7 million• KTS MarketTerminal with... more
London 5th October 2005 - Arcontech Ltd., the London-based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems, strengthened its development team earlier this month with the recruitment of Anant Aggarwal. Aggarwal is an experienced developer who has worked around the world for companies such as Honeywell in Phoenix and India and Medcentre in Brazil.Aggarwal is reporting directly to Andy... more
London, 30th September 2005 - Arcontech Ltd., the London-based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems, continues its expansion program with the appointment of business development manager, Ken Cordery. Cordery is a senior sales professional with a long and successful track record in new business sales and business development. He will report to Andrew Miller, managing... more
bet365, one of the UK's leading betting and gaming firms, has rolled outArcontech’s CityVision product to automate its betting price distribution totelevision based teletext services, including Sky, Channel 4 and Aertel inIreland.The system integrates with bet365’s internal price generation system, allowinglogical (record based) price data to be published in real-time to teletext pages.John... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), provider of professional financial information services, has added extensive foreign exchange data to its standard KTS MarketTerminal subscription. The information is provided by ComStock Europe, part of Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC).Users of KTS MarketTerminal now have access to live prices and exchange rates for more than 170 currencies, allowing them to... more
Reinforcing its commitment to enterprise level support in its award-winning CityVision StarNet market data platform, Arcontech has formally released the .net version of the application-programming interface for its global networking solution.The .net API enables clients and third party developers to access the full functionality of CityVision from any of the Microsoft .net programming languages.... more
Hot on the heels of its recognition at The Banker technology awards ceremony this month, Arcontech is re-launching several of its prize-winning products in a drive to increase market awareness of its leading edge technologies.First in line is the CityVision Excelerator add-in for Microsoft Excel, which enables spreadsheet users to get real-time data from multiple sources into their displays and... more
London 3rd June 2005 —Following it’s success in the 2004 awards, winning the award for ‘Best Technology to the Sell-Side’, Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet was ‘highly commended’ as ‘Networking Initiative of the Year’ at the third annual The Banker Technology Awards, presented last night in London at the Café Royal.Arcontech’s award winning product, StarNet, is a global market... more
Arcontech has added a powerful new product to its CityVision product suite that improves visibility, control and ease of market data page creation and contribution to multiple destinations, including Vendors like Reuters and Bloomberg.The new Page Contributor integrates fully with the CityVision StarNet global real-time infrastructure, supporting end-user entitlements and multiple domains. This... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS) and O2, a leading provider of mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK, have today launched KTS MarketTerminal with O2. The new KTS MarketTerminal with O2 service provides mobile access to essential international market data and news. It is delivered through O2’s "always on" data connections via GPRS, 3G and WLAN, turning a subscriber’s... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), provider of professional financial information services, has enhanced the news content of KTS MarketTerminal and KTS QuoteTerminal. Stories from leading European financial news agency AFX News have been added to the standard subscription. KTS MarketTerminal provides real-time prices, news, fundamentals and analytics for 150,000 instruments listed on the... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), provider of professional financial information services, has added Financial Express funds data to its standard KTS QuoteTerminal subscription. It is the first such vendor to offer in-depth Financial Express funds data as part of its market data application service.KTS QuoteTerminal offers real-time UK stockmarket prices and news, as well as analytics and... more
The City IT event on board the Aurora at the end of last year saw further support for the concept of a 'free to members' community for real-time market data.A workshop, entitled 'Whose data is it anyway?' was presented by Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Arcontech. It discussed the feasibility, benefits and challenges of complementing the current vendor-based models with a cheaper service for... more
Tradition, the global inter-dealer broker has chosen London-based real-time software specialist Arcontech to supply a solution to meet its requirement for a comprehensive, distributed market data publishing system. Based on Arcontech’s award-winning CityVision StarNet architecture, the system will support traders in seven sites globally, including London, Lausanne, Paris, New York, Singapore,... more
Telerate, a leading global provider of real-time information and transaction services has completed a European roll-out of updated systems to ensure the continuity of crucial page-based services.London-based real-time software specialists Arcontech were commissioned to replace time-served DEC PDP-11 systems with software based on modern Intel PC architecture.The new systems perform specialist... more
London, November 2004: A presentation given at the Arcontech user group meeting last Thursday sparked some interesting discussion. A high profile user put forward a well argued case showing the three-way benefits of the Arcontech hosted service: lower running costs and more reliable services for the contributor; lower collection, comms and maintenance costs for the Vendor; and increased revenue... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC ("KTS"), the independent provider of real-time market data services, announces its preliminary results for a year in which the Company has seen significant revenue growth. Financial and business highlights:- Month-on-month increase in recurring revenues, currently running at £1.2m annualised, an increase of 140% over the past twelve months, incorporating... more
KTS is a technology and software company which provides real time market data and information predominantly to the UK’s financial institutions. Our market data application allows individuals to follow the latest price movements, news announcements and various other data on AIM, the London Stock Exchange, and other European and North American Exchanges via an Internet connection. I am writing to... more
London 2nd June 2004 —Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet has beaten the competition to win the award for ‘Best Technology to the Sell-Side’ at this year’s second annual The Banker Technology Awards.Arcontech’s winning product, StarNet, is a global market data platform that provides reliable, real-time data publishing and gathering worldwide. It extends CityVision's proven real-time... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC ("KTS" or the "Company") today announces that 28,571,430 new Ordinary Shares of 0.1p each have been conditionally placed with institutional and other investors at a price of 7.0 pence per share. Once completed, this placing will raise approximately £1.9 million net of expenses for the Company. These 28,571,430 new Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each will rank... more
Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), the real-time financial data technology company, today launches ktsMarketTerminal, its international financial news and data product, at Dealing with Technology 2004 (DWT). DWT, held in the City of London, is a key forum for data and IT professionals in the finance sector. ktsMarketTerminal is the international version of ktsQuoteTerminal, KTS’s... more
March 31st 2004, London - Arcontech Ltd., the London-based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems, gears up for growth with the appointment of a European head of sales. Declan Agnew, who will report to Andrew Miller, managing director of Arcontech, brings with him extensive experience of European financial markets having developed his career with a wide range of... more
Knowledge Powered Solutions Group plc, a leading UK-based provider of knowledge management solutions, has announced a major programme of international expansion to meet increasing demand from help desk, call centre, e-learning and corporate information management environments. The company has been consolidated and restructured for growth and a substantial new investment has been made by... more
16th March 2004, London: Arcontech, the London-based real-time market data applications and middleware specialist is celebrating 25 years of continued business success.Arcontech started developing custom solutions for financial institutions in 1979 and has since become one of the leading experts in real-time processing and messaging. Clients range from major investment banks and National Treasury... more
26th January 2004, London: Tullett Financial Information, a major provider of money markets, interest rate derivatives and fixed income data from the inter-dealer market, has selected Arcontech, the London-based real-time market data applications and middleware specialist to provide a global distribution system to bolster their direct offerings of market data to customers.Initially, StarNet will... more
London 17th December: Arcontech, a leading provider of end-user market data technology and real-time middleware has announced a strategic marketing and technology alliance formed with Cicada, a global provider of data validation and cleansing services.The agreement means that the companies will work together to tender for major business where their products are complementary and their combined... more
November 26th 2003 London – Automatic updating of real-time and other data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets has been simplified with the release of an updated software bundle from Arcontech, the London based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems.The new combined product, Excelerator 2, allows users to take real-time data from multiple sources into a single spreadsheet or... more
October 27th 2003 London – Tim Goldberg has joined Arcontech, a London based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems, as project manager reporting to Managing Director Andrew Miller.Goldberg brings 20 years experience in software development, most recently at SimCorp where he held the position of Development Director for the IT/2 Corporate Treasury Management system.In... more
London August 4th 2003 - Real-time market data specialist Arcontech is to offer its products and services over the Radianz network as part of a combined market data package that will allow institutions to create shared networks of data that bypass information vendors such as Reuters, Bloomberg and MoneyLine Telerate. Under this new initiative Arcontech's CityVision StarNet software will be used... more
London, 7 July 2003: Implementation of an on-line service has allowed leading financial spread-betting specialist City Index to quadruple its business over the past year.Developed by London based financial systems specialist Arcontech for City Index, who’s parent company is the world’s largest derivates broker ICAP, the web service allows clients to speculate on a full range of financial... more
London, 16th June 2003: London-based real-time software specialist Arcontech has announced Intercom, a new range of component products for integrating real-time market data with web and database projects.Aimed specifically at third-party developers, integrators and the in-house development staff of market data end-user organisations, the components are currently used within Arcontech’s... more
London, 10 March 2003: London-based real-time software specialist Arcontech has developed a new version of its CityVision TraderStation market data distribution and display platform to handle real-time data from Comstock, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Interactive Data Corporation. The software company believes this will offer users potential savings of greater than fifty percent... more
London, 25 November 2002: Real-time software specialist Arcontech has announced a new version of its TraderStation market data display solution that introduces a whole new level of affordability in professional workstation dealing software.The software can display real-time market data from information providers such as Reuters or S&P Comstock, through a variety of connectivity options, including... more
4 November 2002, London: Joe Cassidy has joined London-based Arcontech, a developer of real-time data distribution and display systems, as a technical consultant reporting to managing director Andrew Miller.Cassidy has more than 16 years' experience of real-time architectures, desktops and thin client delivery gained working at financial institutions including Perot Systems, UBSW and Merrill... more
28 October 2002, London: Abbey National Treasury Services (ANTS), part of the Abbey National Group – the sixth largest banking group in the UK, has selected London-based real-time software specialist Arcontech to implement a new rates contribution system.ANTS selected the Arcontech CityVision contribution system and RTP infrastructure to replace its existing page-based system after considering a... more
London, 6 February 2001: Financial Spreads, the spread betting firm based in the City of London, has chosen real-time software specialist Arcontech's StarNet technology to support its state-of-the-art, on-line trading system on its newly re-launched website.Financial Spreads' new web-based system (www.finspreads.com) links seamlessly to the existing Arcontech Real Time Publisher (RTP)... more
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