Ffastfill Share Discussion Threads

[bugs bunny] 04/9/2008 14:30

Looks like EVO are taking on as much stock as they can.

Speculation:

Somebody stakebuilding ?????? Institution Topping up ???????

Anyone left with any ideas?????

[bugs bunny] 15/8/2008 12:52

GYY ???????? Have missed something LOL

[gyy] 14/8/2008 12:45

Do I see a flag forming?

[bugs bunny] 29/7/2008 16:37

Ended up on the day .75

[wh1spa] 29/7/2008 16:28

anyone with L2?

[bugs bunny] 29/7/2008 15:18

I've been looking over the last lot of large 8p trades a weeks ago and they turned out to be Gatmore increasing there stake.
All this activity today could be Institutional buying as the trades are going through at 8p again.

[bugs bunny] 29/7/2008 11:27

If we are going to see a re-rating of FFA.....Lets hope its in line with Edison Investment research analysts report, The report value's FFA at £50m over the mediun term which roughly gives FFA a share price of 13p.

[bugs bunny] 29/7/2008 10:44

Oh go on then.

[wh1spa] 29/7/2008 10:10

A re-rating is in the offing. V.Bullish on FFA now so plaese let me get carried away. Not much to be cheery about elsewhere.

[bugs bunny] 29/7/2008 09:59

Don't get too carried away we've been here before.

[wh1spa] 29/7/2008 09:54

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[wh1spa] 29/7/2008 09:31

Maybe the bidder has reappeared, but sshhhhhhHHHHHHH DON'T TELL ANYONE.

[bugs bunny] 29/7/2008 09:06

There was also some big trades last week on the 21st:

5000000 @ 6.98
2000000 @ 7.00
500000 @ 7.00
2700000 @ 7.00

[plast] 29/7/2008 08:44

beat me to it wh1, welldone.

[plast] 29/7/2008 08:43

well some very nice trades going thou at the moment someone knows something, dyor.

[wh1spa] 29/7/2008 08:42

Blimey .... a few trades now going through. Whats going on?

[bugs bunny] 22/7/2008 09:23

Many Thanks......A very interesting read

[wh1spa] 22/7/2008 07:35

Makes interesting reading. You can sign up with them , they send you a password and then you can get the full report. If you want I could cut and paste it but it would really hog the BB.

[bugs bunny] 21/7/2008 08:33

Contract Win

FFastFill signs Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB for its Middle Office Application Service

FFastFill, the leading application service provider for the electronic trading community, is delighted to announce that it has been selected to provide the middle office matching and allocation platform for Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) in London.

FFastFill announced the release of its middle office matching and allocation service earlier this year. It is based on FFastFill's modern distributed architecture with a publish / subscribe message bus which allows great flexibility for customer deployment. The service is delivered and supported 24 hours a day throughout the trading week from FFastFill's service centres in London and Chicago. The service provides connectivity to London Clearing House (TRS), Deutsche Boörse (Eurex Clearing), Clearing 21 (Euronext), CME (inc CBOT), EDX and MEFF.

In addition, following the previously announced acquisition of Exchange Technology Pty Ltd in Australia who have extensive experience in the middle office market and Asia Pacific clearing house connectivity, FFastFill is also able to offer a global middle office solution.

FFastFill's integrated platform provides components across the complete STP (Straight Through Processing) cycle from front office through middle office to back office which will allow customers to leverage real time risk management from middle office feeds. FFastFill currently provides SEB with a front office Trading Technologies Service as well as being a long time supplier of FFastFill's back office technology.

Keith Todd, Chairman & CEO of FFastFill, said: 'We are delighted that SEB has selected us for the middle office service which is a critically important part of their business. We look forward to other opportunities for FFastFill and SEB to work together.'


Steve Martin, Clearing Manager, SEB Futures, said: 'The installation of the FFastFill matching engine is a continuation of SEB Futures commitment to its clients to deliver best of breed technology throughout the processing chain. The rapid deployment of this service is a testament to the service ethic we have come to expect from a key technology partner.'

[bugs bunny] 16/7/2008 10:40

Any chance you can copy and paste????

[techinvestforum] 15/7/2008 20:10

TECHINVEST readers have a look at techinvestprivateforum.co.uk

[groin] 11/7/2008 07:59

Consolidation remains the tech driver

Created:
10 July 2008
Written by:
Andy Bryant

The technology sector has enjoyed a bounce over the last quarter but this reflects an up-tick in mergers and acquisitions activity rather than any real change in investor appetite. There have been several secondary fund-raisings but no IPOs. Investors don't want to take on risk and, rightly or wrongly, they don't believe the earnings forecasts for mid- and small-cap companies in the sector - current valuations seem to be pricing in 30 per cent-plus downgrades to estimates. In fact, investors don't even value insiders' views of their companies - with several stocks trading well below levels where directors recently bought shares.

But what we have seen is private equity and trade buyers beginning to take advantage of what appear to be lowly valuations in the sector. In recent months there have been bid approaches for Civica, Northgate, MediaSurface, Anite, IBS Open Systems, Netstore, NSB Retail, Flomerics and Vega among others.

We believe private-equity buyers are increasingly focusing on mid- and small-cap stocks. Many funds still have large amounts of cash to invest but the challenging environment for leveraging deals means we expect them to focus on trying to consolidate several smaller players rather than chase the big fish - and there should be plenty of opportunity for that in IT services and financial software.

In addition, many of the business buyers are looking at far higher visibility of future revenues than in previous cycles. This has been partly driven by the real emergence of the UK's 'software as a service' sector through companies such as FFASTFILL, GB Group, Gresham Computing, Kewill Systems, Netstore, ServicePower and Statpro . In many cases, these businesses have taken advantage of the good times over the last five years to reinvest their cash in software platforms and designs that can be hosted off-site and scaled across a large number of customers. That technology jump and the economies of scale it has brought are driving down the cost of delivering software and enabling cost-conscious, outsource-led corporates to sign up to multi-year service agreements rather than having to find significant up-front cash to buy licences and fund lengthy implementation plans. The strength of these business models is not being valued properly - generally they trade at a small premium to the wider UK tech sector but at around one-third of the price US investors are willing to pay, where the sector is better understood.

The July trading statements will provide an update on the earnings outlook for the sector and we would expect corporate activity to remain an accelerating feature, but seeing institutions flowing capital back into the technology sector is likely to take quite a lot longer.

Andy Bryant is technology analyst at Edison Investment Research

[bugs bunny] 03/7/2008 16:13

Looks like all the positive press we have had over the last weeks and the share price gains through it have now been wiped out.

[bugs bunny] 03/7/2008 16:13

Looks like all the positive press we have had over the last weeks and the share price gains through it have now been wiped out.