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First Derivatives - Foreign exchange trades surge through Delta eFX platform

June 2011

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First Derivativesâ€™ results for the year to 28 February showed revenues up 44% to Â£36.74m and pretax profit up 15.1% to Â£6.5m. Earnings increased 23% to 33.2p. That means that in the years 2004-11, First Derivatives has managed to grow its sales by a compound 46% whilst pretax profit has grown at 45%. The latest year saw substantial progress on the software side helped by the acquisition of Cognotec and software sales grew by 104% to Â£12.5m (33% organic growth ex-Cognotec). Before the purchase of Cognotec, software activities comprised mainly the sale of the Kdb+, a third-party database product of which a substantial sale was made and also the Delta suite of software for programme trading and risk management, which had been de ...

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