Ffastfill Share Discussion Threads

[plast] 13/6/2008 22:01

thanks bugs,

[bugs bunny] 13/6/2008 14:30

A very busy day.





RNS Number : 6703W
FFastFill PLC
13 June 2008


TR-1: notification of major interests in shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of FFastFill Plc
existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or
boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Yes
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the No
acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights No
Other (please specify): No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification Gartmore Investment Limited
obligation:
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from See attached schedule
3.):
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the 6th June 2008
threshold is crossed or reached if different):
6. Date on which issuer notified: 9th June 2008
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 17%
8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares Situation previous to the Triggering Resulting situation after
the triggering transaction
if possible using transaction
the ISIN CODE
Number of Shares Number of Voting Number of shares Number
of voting % of voting
Rights rights
rights
Direct Direct
Indirect Direct Indirect
GB0002130689 49,171,000 49,171,000 65,475,000 N/A
65,475.000 N/A 17.352%

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument Expiration date Exercise/ Conversion Number of voting %
of voting rights
Period/ Date rights that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/
converted.



Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights % of voting rights
65,475,000 17.352



9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or
the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:


Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information: All shares are held indirectly
All figures are based on the Company's issued
share capital of 377,327,156 as provided by
Exshare
E mail contact [e-mail]
14. Contact name: RDU
15. Contact telephone number: 020 7 782 2000

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

[bugs bunny] 13/6/2008 11:20

BlackRock: www.blackrock.co.uk/uksite/about-blk/index.htm

To deliver creative solutions to investment challenges, BlackRock has long focused on a cross-disciplinary team approach in which clients benefit from the pooled expertise of the firm's resources: our investment and risk management professionals and our internally developed analytical tools. In addition to excellent performance, BlackRock is committed to delivering a high level of service tailored to the needs of each client. BlackRock's client base includes corporate, public, union and industry pension plans; insurance companies; third-party mutual funds; endowments; foundations; charities; corporations; official institutions; banks; and individuals worldwide.

BlackRock is independent in ownership and governance, with no single majority stockholder and a majority of independent directors. In terms of equity ownership, Merrill Lynch's stake is approximately 49%, while The PNC Financial Services Group retains an interest of about 34%; the remaining 17% is held by BlackRock employees and public shareholders.

[bugs bunny] 13/6/2008 10:40

Here's The answer to the trades of a few ago. I guess KBC did the trading on this one............Now the Question is who are EVO acting for ?????????


RNS Number : 6518W
FFastFill PLC
13 June 2008


TR-1: notification of major interests in shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of FFastFill Plc
existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the
acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification BlackRock, Inc.
obligation:
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the 6th June 2008
threshold is crossed or reached if different):
6. Date on which issuer notified: 10th June 2008
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: Gone above 5%
8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares Situation previous to the Triggering Resulting situation after
the triggering transaction
if possible using transaction
the ISIN CODE
Number of Shares Number of Voting Number of shares Number
of voting % of voting
Rights rights
rights
Direct Direct
Indirect Direct Indirect
GB0002130689 N/A was below 5% N/A was below 5% N/A N/A
23,622,614 N/A 6.26%

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument Expiration date Exercise/ Conversion Number of voting %
of voting rights
Period/ Date rights that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/
converted.



Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights % of voting rights
23,622,614 6.26%



9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or
the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited - 23,622,614 (6.26%)


Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder: N/a
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: N/a
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: N/a

13. Additional information:
14. Contact name: Paul Colcombe
15. Contact telephone number: 020 7665 8900


ANNEX NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name (including legal form for legal entities) BlackRock, Inc
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)
33 King William Street, London,
EC4R
9AS
Phone number 020 7743 2602
Other useful information (at least legal representative for Kai Chew
legal persons)


B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name
Contact address
Phone number
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal
entity subject to the notification obligation)


C: Additional information


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

[bugs bunny] 12/6/2008 13:57

Very Interesting Trades !!!!!!!!

[bugs bunny] 11/6/2008 13:50

Its been very interesting watching the trading activity over the last week or so...It appears we have big buyer..... Is it Stake builder preparing to put in a bid or a friendly buyer ???????

[bugs bunny] 06/6/2008 15:29

That is one Hefty trade and a full 1p under the current share price and no movement down.
As for PTS all I can say is OUCH.

[wh1spa] 06/6/2008 14:35

Thats a fairly hefty trade! I see that PTS has got a bit of a battering today.

[bugs bunny] 27/5/2008 11:01

INTERVIEW FFastFill would consider bid offers, as it moves into Asia Pacific
LONDON (Thomson IM) - Financial trading software servicing company FFastFill Plc. said it is open to bid approaches, as it gets set for a move into the Asia Pacific market.
In an interview with Thomson Financial News on Thursday, chief executive Keith Todd set out the plans for the move in to the buoyant Asia Pacific.
Todd said: 'We've got coverage of the United Kingdom and United States markets and we're now going to target the Asia Pacific banks.
'We've just acquired Exchange Technology Ltd. as banks use its products in the Asian markets and as we currently work on an eight-hour day in London and 16 in Chicago, this move means we can move our evening shift to Australia, so customers can use our products in the day rather than overnight.'
FFastFill's full-year pretax loss narrowed on higher revenues, to 137,000 pounds from 1.1 million, while revenues rose to 11.36 million pounds from 6.06 million previously.
Todd said: 'We're very pleased with the results, we've had high revenue growth and also underlying growth was up 30 percent.
'There were some costs which partly affected the results though, namely the 400,000 pounds we had to pay out for redundancies, but this was expected.'
The group falls in to the software as a service (SAAS) space, which Todd thinks is the future for trading software services.
SAAS is essentially a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet.
Having led the company since 2002, Todd said he has always had a clear vision of where he wants FFastFill to be.
He said: 'SAAS is the very reason I got involved with FFastFill as in my view it's the future of how software should be developed and I like its flexibility.'
Investors will also be aware of Todd's impressive record of entering companies, building them up, and selling them on at a profit.
He took up the helm of ECSoft when the stock was 130 pence, later selling for 340 pence. And he also sold EasyNet to Sky for a 90 percent premium.
But he says it is not his game plan to simply build up FFastFill and move on.
He said: 'I've invested significantly in FFastFill and yes, if someone came to us with an appropriate offer we'd consider it.
'But I'm not going in with an intention to sell up and if someone did come in with an offer, it would have to be at a very big premium.'
FFastFill's business model is so strong, claims Todd, that it has already secured 11.5 million pounds of its expected 15.8 million pounds revenue total for next year on recurring revenues alone.
Of the strong order book, Todd said: 'There are opportunities to sell additional services once you're in a market space.
'We're selling 400,000 products a year on average but this could rise to 2-3 million, hence there's a big opportunity for us to grab on to some low-hanging fruit to harvest more growth.
'Revenues will continue to grow. Basically it's like an annuity and it de-risks the chances of there being problems for future revenue streams.'
Given the turmoil currently facing global markets, one could expect FFastFill to be among those hurt.
But easing investors' fears, Todd said: 'We deal in derivatives and futures and that market's very buoyant, growing 30 percent a year.
'What with banks having to cut costs, it's benefiting us enormously and it helps in terms of selling additional products to clients.'
Looking forward, it seems inevitable that another bid approach could be on the cards.
In March 2007, FFastFill ended talks surrounding a potential offer, saying it undervalued the group.
Todd said: 'I've a pretty simple take of it in my mind. I want to build a business up which is highly profitable. But it's also about listening to what people have to say.
'If someone comes to us we will listen, but we're not actively seeking a buyer.'

[bugs bunny] 27/5/2008 08:38

FFA NOW UP FOR SALE!!!!!

SEE THOMPSON FINANCIAL FOR DETAILS.......

[bugs bunny] 23/5/2008 14:06

Also a mention in todays Daily Mail......It looks like with VERY good Numbers and VERY good Growth forcasts in the Results the PR company Toddy has taken on, they are now raising FFA profile.

[mints2] 23/5/2008 13:27

This quote is from today's Times 'In The Know'


Tiddler to watch

FFastFill may have an unusual name but its software for derivatives traders is thought to be quite clever. It is exposed to any downturn in such trading but shares rose 0.125p to 7.375p as it revealed it has already taken orders for 73 per cent of this year's forecast. KBC Peel Hunt, its house broker, retained its "buy" advice.

[dyson3] 22/5/2008 23:27

FfastFill buys Australia's Exchange Technology
UK derivatives trading vendor Ffastfill has bought Exchange Technology, an Australian provider of middle office and trading software, for A$2.5 million.

Ffastfill says it has acquired Exchange Technology for the equivalent of £1 million in cash plus £0.24 million in shares at 7.125 pence per share.

Exchange Technology specialises in providing middle office software in Asia Pacific and has 16 customers, including 12 global banks. The firm is expected to report evenues of £0.5 million in its year to 30 June 2008 and to be "broadly breakeven", says Ffastfill.

The UK vendor says the acquisition will act as the "initial corner stone" of its Asia Pacific strategy and augment its drive to increase penetration in the derivatives middle office marke.

"The Exchange Technology acquisition means that we now have representation on the ground in the third major time zone of the Far East," says Ffastfill chairman and CEO, Keith Todd.

Ffastffill expects deal to be earnings neutral in the first year and enhancing in subsequent years.

News of the acquisition comes as Ffastfill report its first year of profitability. The vendor is reporting profit after tax of £0.92 million for its financial year ending 31 March 2008, compared to a loss after tax of £1.11 million in 2007. Group revenue rose 87% to £11.4million in 2008, compared to £6.1 million in 2007.

Ffastfilll says its order book for the next twelve months stands at £11.5 million, compared to £6.7 million the previous year.

Todd says the firm has demonstrated resilience to general market turmoil, thanks largely to the "recurring nature of our core services revenue".

[dyson3] 22/5/2008 06:55

ASP FFastFill to add forex support



May 19th 2008

LONDON - Application service provider (ASP) FFastfill expects to give its trading platform users expanded multi-asset strategies with the introduction of foreign exchange trading support within a few weeks, say vendor officials.

One of the first clients to go live with the new capabilities will be online futures brokerage GNI Touch, a subsidiary of Man Financial.

"Institutions need to not just manage the exchange-traded derivatives risk - they need to understand their over-the-counter risk in the futures world, they also need to understand their exposure to risk in other asset classes with their end client, whether it's in FX, bonds or exchange-traded derivatives," said Keith Todd, FFastFill's chairman and chief executive in London.

The system, which is in testing, will enable clients to take in price feeds from three or more FX providers and offer their client base, depending on the credit worthiness of the position, a single FX price in real time, said Todd.

The ability to trade FX from the existing front end will be available to the general market after GNI goes live with it.

FFastFill will also add the ability to trade bonds from the same front end in the fourth quarter, Todd said.

The vendor is working with firms such as interdealer brokers Icap and BGC Partners on gathering their feeds into FFastFill to offer single-screen trading for bonds and futures.

"We think there's going to be a big interest in bringing [these companies] together," Todd said. "Trading today is less about the vanilla trading of instruments. It's much more about the ability to trade across different types of asset classes to actually benefit from arbitrage possibilities and to also mitigate complete risk," he added.

Man Financial could not be reached by press time.

Oksana Poltavets

[gerri-c] 19/5/2008 18:36

Apologies to thread for post 4021, just realised my error.

[bugs bunny] 19/5/2008 17:51

Working for me now

[bobbystar99] 19/5/2008 17:24

The FFA website works for me.

[bugs bunny] 19/5/2008 14:39

Anybody out there having problems trying to get onto FFA website......It appears to be down.....Maybe the new PR company is working its magic.

[bugs bunny] 15/5/2008 16:02

Now thats come as a very nice surpise.......KBC up a tick.

[bugs bunny] 15/5/2008 10:15

Its only SCAPS....They have gone up a tick......Twitchy

[bugs bunny] 13/5/2008 15:43

SCAPS very twitchy these days not just on FFA.

[bugs bunny] 06/5/2008 13:58

FFastFill PLC
06 May 2008


FFastFill continue growth with LME members


London, 6th May 2008 - Toyota Tsusho Metals Limited (TTM) the LME Category 2
member and subsidiary of the Toyota Tsusho Corporation Group has announced its
full implementation of the FFastFill Eclipse post trade processing (PTP) middle
and back office system.


TTM initially went live with Eclipse during 2007 for its soft commodity business
activities followed by a full implementation of the Eclipse solution for its
non-ferrous metals propriety and broking activities.


Bob Kelly, Finance Officer of TTM comments, 'As our business has grown over the
years we realised the need to implement a functionally rich and robust solution
for our risk management and accounting demands. We were impressed by the
commitment FFastFill had to the metals sector and we are delighted to be the
first live client of Eclipse that we chose to use on a fully outsourced ASP
basis.'


Commenting on this news Patrick Thornton-Smith, Managing Director of FFastFill
PTP adds, 'TTM taking Eclipse is a major step for us as they are a highly
respected member of the LME and the use of Eclipse for both their metals and
soft commodity business underlines the true multi-asset benefits of Eclipse.'


TTM are using Eclipse in its London office and there is the potential to roll
this out to their overseas client base during 2008 as well as investigating the
full FFastFill STP solution including front end electronic access to the LME
Select system.


Toyota Tsusho Metals Limited (TTM)

TTM is an Associate Broker Clearing Member (Category 2) of the LME. Our
involvement as Toyota on the Exchange spans two decades, during which time TTM
has provided a tailored service catering for the ever-increasing needs of our
international clientele.


We are a 100% owned subsidiary of the Toyota Tsusho Corporation located in
Nagoya, Japan. Our London Head Office is located in the City of London.

[bugs bunny] 03/5/2008 11:31

Very good posting Spital23......We need alot more article's of this nature to get the word and prospects out there and also to get this share price moving northwards.