MUMBAI, India, Aug. 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Financial Technologies (India) Ltd. (NSE: FINANTECH, BSE: FlNTECH) has unveiled a special micro website http://ar2008.ftindia.com for Annual Report 2008.
The microsite has been specially designed and created to serve Financial Technologies community in a more transparent and user friendly access to its Annual Report content.
"Our vision with the microsite is to offer most dynamic web experience to our users with seamless and ubiquitous access to our financial and strategic content of Annual Report and our quarterly earnings on an ongoing basis.
"The theme ‘Value’ is the raison d’etre of the company and reinforces our continued commitment to deliver unmatched consistently to all our stakeholders across the Board.
Other major innovations in Annual Report include ‘Leadership Speak’ as contribution from the following Board and / or Advisory Board members of FT Group." said Mr. Miten Mehta, Director - Communications and Investor Relations.
-- Mr. Jignesh Shah - ‘Charting New Electronic Trade Routes’
-- Mr. Leo Melamed - ‘Derivative Markets - Living in Interesting
Times’ (excerpt from speech delivered at SMX announcement).
-- Mr. G. N. Bajpai - ‘New Markets, New Opportunities’.
-- Mr. Kiran Karnik - ‘Tech-Centric Markets - Platform for
Disruptive Innovation’.
-- Mr. Ang Swee Tian - ‘Development of a Pan-Asian Derivatives
Market for Commodities’ (excerpt from speech delivered at SMX
announcement).
About Financial Technologies (India) Ltd.
Financial Technologies (India) Limited (http://www.ftindia.com) is a US$1.84 billion (market capitalization, (NSE: FINANTECH, BSE: FlNTECH) global leader in creating and operating technology-centric, next-generation financial markets that are transparent, efficient, and liquid, across multi-asset-class including equities, commodities, currency and bond among others.
Our highly robust and scalable exchange and trading technology platform (Intellectual Property), coupled with deep domain expertise, gives us a decisive edge in driving mass disruptive innovation at a speed and cost of execution that are unmatched in the financial markets. This expertise uniquely positions Financial Technologies and helps create electronic, organized, and regulated financial markets for ‘new asset classes’ and ‘new investor classes’ that are either underserved or economically unviable to serve by traditional companies.
Our markets transform lives of people by democratizing global trade and economy and propagating the benefits of ‘price discovery’, ‘trade efficiency’, ‘risk hedging’, and ‘structured finance’ to the masses. These benefits in turn create inclusive and equitable growth by unlocking value from the middle and bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.
ODIN(TM), the flagship brokerage solution suite, is used by an estimated 80% of the brokers of the Indian transaction automation market and has over 320,000 licenses issued as on 31st March, 2008. DOME(TM) is the leading ‘Exchange Platform of Choice’ to set up and operate next generation markets.
Exchange Ventures
Financial Technologies has set up the following eight exchange ventures:
-- MCX (http://www.mcxindia.com): India’s No. 1 multi-commodity futures
exchange, ranked among top 10 in the world as per FIA
-- DGCX, Dubai (http://www.dgcx.ae): First international commodity and
currency derivatives market in the Middle East.
-- IBS Forex (http://www.ibsfx.com): India’s No. 3 inter-bank forex
exchange platform
-- NSEL (http://www.nationalspotexchange.com): A pan-India electronic
spot market for agri commodities trading
-- IEX (http://www.iexindia.com): India’s first power exchange for
trading in electricity
-- SNX (http://www.snxindia.com): India’s first spot exchange for trading
in perishable commodities
-- GBOT (http://www.gbot.mu): Multi asset-class electronic exchange from
Mauritius to serve as a gateway to the African continent.
-- SMX (http://www.smx.com.sg): First international Pan-Asian derivatives
exchange, that will provide a single platform for multi-product trade
between Asia and the world.
