First Deriv. Share Price (FDP)

2013 – The Great Irish Share Valuation Project (Part II) I take a look at First Derivatives, plus a batch of other Irish stocks: http://wexboy.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/2013-the-great-irish-share-valuation-project-part-ii/ Cheers, Wexboy

"The domain knowledge and technical capabilities of our professional services teams leave us ideally placed to design and manage the hosting of this solution and to partner with ASIC in developing analytics to help maintain efficient and orderly markets." ASIC said the system would help interrogate data and monitor market activity as the complexity of the market grows with the increased use of technology and the faster and higher volume of trades. First Derivative, which has a market capitalisation of £89.01m, has operations in London, New York, Stockholm, Shanghai, Singapore, Toronto, Sydney, Dublin, Newry and Hong Kong.

First Derivatives has signed a multi-year annual software licence with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission to provide a new market surveillance system, the company reported Thursday. The Irish-based provider of software and consulting services will implement its Delta Stream, a market data capture and analytics platform. The Australian government body will use Delta Stream to meet its statutory obligation to oversee the country's licensed financial markets. The platform, which was launched in 2008, will help monitor any prohibited market trading across the range of asset classes and products. The system screens different asset classes including equities and fixed income and analyses large data volumes using a single platform. First Derivatives Chief Executive Officer Brian Conlon said: "We are delighted with the decision by ASIC to use Delta Stream as their chosen platform for market surveillance. Delta Stream will allow ASIC to quickly respond to evolving market regulations, the introduction of new products and projected increases in data volumes.

First Derivatives (FDP) Director name: Mr Keith MacDonald Amount purchased: 10,000 @ 535.00p Value: £53,500

Any idea why this massive spread is in place?

11/6/2012 2:42 AM ET First Derivatives plc (FDP.L), leading provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets industry, announced its results for the six months ended 31 August 2012. Profit before tax was 3.47 million pounds compared to 3.40 million pounds prior year. Normalised Pre-tax profit increased to 3.8 million pounds from 3.5 million pounds last year. Profit for the period was 2.81 million pounds compared to 2.66 million pounds last year. Basic profit per share was 16.7 pence compared to 16.3 pence prior year. Revenue increased to 27.60 million pounds from 22.38 million pounds last year. David Anderson, Chairman of First Derivatives commented: "The first six months have seen continued strong growth across the Group's activities with total revenues up over 23%. To fuel this growth we have continued to make substantial investment in the development of all the Group's activities to ensure we have a strong organisation that can react to the market through the quality of our product and service offerings. This investment has resulted in us signing a number of contracts during the period which will start to become revenue generating in the second half and we have a healthy pipeline of prospects. Despite a background of market turbulence we expect to report profits for the year in line with market expectations." The Group said it continues to generate strong operating cash flow and this allows the Board to recommend an interim dividend of 3.1 pence per share.