Editor's Viewpoint

This edition of Streetwise reflects a few of the many exciting activities which have taken place at Wall Street Systems in the first half of 2008.   We recently acquired Aleri Global Banking (AGB), which enhances our commitment and further strengthens our position in the high performance back office space. AGB has over 25 years experience in providing transaction processing infrastructure to many of the world’s leading banks. We welcome them as clients and look forward to meeting and serving them well for many years to come. We also extend a warm welcome to the experienced and highly knowledgeable staff of AGB as they join Wall Street Systems.   Wallstreet is becoming well known for its solutions to support financial institutions with soaring trading volumes. Working closely with Sun Microsystems we benchmarked Wallstreet FX on the Solaris 10 OS with Solaris Cluster software, to handle extreme volumes, especially during peak loads.   Of our corporate clients, we are extremely proud that Merck & Co has won the prestigious Treasury Today Adam Smith Award for “Harnessing the Power of Technology.” This is for Merck’s use of Wallstreet Suite in transforming its worldwide treasury and cash management operations through best practice and innovation. We salute the award winning Merck team who did a tremendous job streamlining their operations, and we are glad our solution played a meaningful part in this very successful project.   Continuing our focus on improving Client satisfaction, this quarter we launched the Wallstreet Client Satisfaction Survey Programme, with the aim of keeping a continual pulse on the issues that concern our clients. The surveys, run twice a year, will provide us with valuable information to better serve our clients. Additionally we have also significantly developed our Client User Group and Client Forum programmes to the extent that we now facilitate meetings and networking opportunities for all business sectors, industry segments and interest groups across our client base. Two new activities will be initiated in the next quarter. The first is a Client Reference Programme with the objectives of identifying best practice within our client community, establishing relationships among clients and celebrating achievements within Wallstreet and the wider community. The second is the launch of an updated version of the Wallstreet Client Extranet to serve as the primary portal to access client resources and information.   The Wallstreet Managed Service team has been strengthened with the recent appointment of Steven Sheppard. Steven has joined Wallstreet in the role of Technical Services Manager within the Client Services Division. Based at our London office, Steven heads up the Managed Service and ASP teams delivering mission critical operations support to our Managed Service clients.   Wall Street Systems continues to grow and prosper. We attribute this success to the success of our clients. Thank you for your ongoing business and willingness to view us as your partner. We look forward to making the second half of 2008 as productive and exciting as the first one.    Leonie Alsop Head of Marketing and Communications