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2006

30 November 2006 - Funds Europe Commends LatentZero In This Year's Awards
LatentZero was shortlisted as the European Front Office IT Company of the Year at this year’s Funds Europe awards. The judges commended LatentZero’s Capstone suite and felt that LatentZero is a company to watch, deserving a special mention in this year's awards. They said: “The company, which was founded by senior IT specialists in the asset management industry in 1999, has now built an international reputation for the quality of its buy-side front office technology, and it supports more than $8 trillion in assets under management.”

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30 October 2006 - LatentZero Strengthens Professional Services With New Appointment
LatentZero™, the leading provider of front office systems for the buy-side, has appointed Megan Costello as North America Head of Professional Services to lead the development and consolidation of the company’s implementation processes in North America.

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25 October 2006 - LatentZero North American Client Conference Goes From Strength To Strength
Representatives of LatentZero’s North American customer base had the opportunity to meet their peers, discuss the latest industry trends, and receive product training as well as presentations and updates from the company’s consultants and specialists at its recent North American Client Conference in Boston. This was the third time the user group had congregated and was the biggest event yet, with more than 70 attendees.

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23 October 2006 - LatentZero™ launches new functionality to support hedge fund requirements
LatentZero™, the leading provider of front office systems for the buy-side, is targeting the hedge fund industry with adaptations made to its Capstone™ solution. In addition to its existing capability to manage positions and real-time P&L by fund and by any sector type, Capstone now enables hedge fund managers to analyse their portfolios and drive their trading activity by strategy or sub-strategy.

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02 October 2006 - LatentZero™ Integrates FINCAD Analytics Into Capstone™ Buy-Side Suite
LatentZero™, a leading provider of front office software for the buy-side, has integrated FINCAD® (Financial CAD Corporation) Analytics into its Capstone Derivatives™ product.

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15 August 2006 - South Africa’s RMB Asset Management Picks LatentZero’s Capstone Front-Office Suite
RMB Asset management, a division of one of South Africa’s largest JSE-listed financial services groups FirstRand, has successfully implemented LatentZero Capstone™ to manage its assets of more than ZAR200bn (₤15bn).

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7 August 2006 - LatentZero Partners With MarketAxess to Offer Improved STP
LatentZero has formed an alliance with MarketAxess, the leading electronic, multi-dealer to client platform for U.S. and European credit fixed income and emerging markets securities.

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7 August 2006 - LatentZero Whitepaper Addresses Changing Faces of Compliance at Asset Management Firms
LatentZero™, the leading provider of front-office systems for the buy-side, has published a whitepaper that looks at the current compliance issues within asset management firms and the impact it has on their businesses.

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24 July 2006 - LatentZero Partners With Markit To Offer Derivatives Data
LatentZero, a leading provider of front office systems for the buy-side, has entered into a partnership with Markit Group, the leading provider of independent pricing, reference data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing for the global financial and commodities markets.

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10 July 2006 - Capstone Derivatives™ Secures 'Best New Solution' Nomination
LatentZero’s™ Capstone Derivatives has been short-listed in the 2006 Financial News Awards for Excellence in IT.

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19 June 2006 - Reducing the time to comply
New version of LatentZero’s™ compliance solution, Capstone Sentinel™, 5.0 increases gap between the best and the rest

LatentZero has reset the benchmark by which all buy-side compliance software will be judged as it unveils Capstone Sentinel 5.0, at the 2006 SIA Technology Management conference in New York. LatentZero’s innovative architecture, coupled with the use of an in-memory rule engine, means the new software will run twice as fast as previous versions.

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07 June 2006 - LatentZero Forms European Compliance Group
Following the recent opening of LatentZero France’s new Paris office, LatentZero held its first European Sentinel User Group meeting in Paris at which it presented new functionality to be included in the Capstone Sentinel™ v5.0 release, to be launched at the SIA show in New York City, June 21-23.

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02 May - LatentZero Completes Martin Currie Implementation
Martin Currie, the Edinburgh-based specialist investment manager with around £12 (US$20) billion assets under management, has successfully completed the implementation of LatentZero’s front-office suite, Capstone.

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24 April 2006 - LatentZero Grows Professional Services Group in North America
LatentZero has announced an expansion of its Professional Services Group in North America in response to its clients’ growing demand for strategic trading technology support services. This will ensure that they receive advice and support throughout the entire implementation and after sale support lifecycle, rather than simply during implementation or integration projects, when key decisions have already been taken.

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11 April 2006 - Paris Expansion Increases Focus on Key European Financial Markets
LatentZero has announced it is increasing its presence in Europe and will grow the number of staff in its Paris office in the coming months. The company has already appointed Ian Cumberpatch as Regional Sales Director and Georges Setrouk as Sales Manager for Western Europe in recent months, adding experienced financial sector software experts to its European team.

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07 March 2006 - LatentZero builds up its implementation services with new appointment
LatentZero, the leading provider of front-office technology to the buy-side, has appointed Nick Harrall as Head of the Professional Services Group (PSG). Nick will be responsible for developing the company’s implementation and support services, and ensuring that all clients receive the highest standards of service when deploying LatentZero’s Capstone suite of solutions.

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21 February 2006 - Jackson National Choose's LatentZero's Sentinel for Compliance
Jackson National Asset Management, the Chicago-based investment management subdivision of Jackson National Life, with assets under management of more than $18 billion, is set to use LatentZero’s Sentinel as its post-trade compliance solution across its equity and fixed income funds.

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