13 July 2006
 

New York, London, Tokyo - SwapsWire announced today that it has globally increased its staff in its customer service and account management teams. The additional people will support SwapsWire’s rapidly growing client base, helping new clients to start using the service and existing clients to maximize the benefits of trade date confirmation.

Chip Carver, SwapsWire’s CEO, said, “I am pleased to welcome our new staff. Each of them will be a valued team member. The fact that we are growing our client teams is a testament to the success of the SwapsWire platform. We are delighted that globally the service is so well received and that we continue to break new volume records.”

In New York, Trina Brown has joined as Account Manager. In this role, Trina will work with SwapsWire’s broker-dealer clients in order to help with buy-side client on-boarding and to provide training. Trina will help the banks improve their relationships with their clients through the efficient use of SwapsWire. Before joining SwapsWire, Trina worked on the trading desk at Archipelago for three years, where she built and enhanced client relationships.

In London, Stephen Kiely has joined SwapsWire as an Account Manager and is responsible for relationships with existing broker-dealer clients in Europe. Before joining SwapsWire, Steve was Head of Fixed Income Operations at HVB London.

Vikash Patel has joined the Implementation team in London and works with clients so that they can integrate their internal systems with SwapsWire to provide seamless STP. Vikash was previously a software consultant for Subex Azure where he worked with telecommunication companies across Scandinavia.

Robert Martin has joined SwapsWire in London as a Support Analyst for the Account Management team. In this role, Robert assists the account managers with all aspects of their work. Robert had previously worked at Citigroup in their back-office project management team.

Globally SwapsWire has expanded its Customer Service Group. Nayiri Sarkissian has joined the team in New York. The London group has hired Simon Rayfield and Michael Ogbonnaya. In Tokyo, Shigeru Hoshina has joined to help support clients in the Asia-Pacific region.

About SwapsWire

Since 2002, the SwapsWire system has been automating legal confirmation, trade capture, and broker confirmation for multiple OTC derivatives products including interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements, overnight index swaps, caps, floors, swaptions, credit default swaps, equity options and variance swaps. Today hundreds of sell-side, buy-side, and inter-dealer broker sites in Europe, Asia and the USA use the system.

SwapsWire supports trade workflow of all types, with integrated trade-date legal confirmation, avoiding the traditional need to separate trade-date workflow/checkout from legal confirmation. Workflows supported include:

- Inter-dealer broker STP and confirmation
- Trade Capture
- Legal confirmation
- Prime Brokerage (Give-Up)
- Amendments, terminations, option exercise, corporate actions
- Allocations
- Novations

SwapsWire is owned by a consortium of 21 leading derivatives dealers: Bank of America, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., Barclays Bank, Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank, BNP Paribas, Calyon, Citigroup, IXIS Corporate and Investment Bank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Bank Plc, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Mizuho Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Societe Generale, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and UBS Investment Bank. For more information on SwapsWire, visit www.swapswire.com

Media Contacts:
SwapsWire Henry Hunter +44 (0)20 7071 0119
Amy Mihalakis 07970 050 828

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