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SunGard's Fame Energy Expands Coverage of European Energy Market Data
October 19, 2010 — Houston, TX
SunGard’s
Fame Energy data solution has expanded its coverage of European energy market data by adding APX-ENDEX Gas UK Spot market data. Fame Energy also offers APX-ENDEX Power UK Spot, Gas NL (TTF) Spot, Gas ZEE Spot, TTF Gas Futures, Power NL Futures, Power BE Futures and Belpex Power coverage. With this latest addition, Fame Energy’s customers now have access to one of the most comprehensive compilations of European energy market data , which also includes high quality data from APX-ENDEX, EEX, Nord Pool, Powernext and OMEL.
Bert den Ouden, chief executive officer, APX-Endex, said, “With the addition of these new APX-ENDEX sources, SunGard’s Fame Energy has reaffirmed its position as one of the leading energy market data providers.”
Leslie Barbagallo, chief operating officer, SunGard’s Fame Energy business unit, said “The decision to add more European exchanges to Fame Energy’s data service comes in response to the demand from our customers for access to a respected and independent source of European power and gas prices”.
About APX-ENDEX
APX-ENDEX is a leading energy exchange operating the spot and derivatives markets for electricity and natural gas in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. Established in 1999, APX-ENDEX provides exchange trading, central clearing and settlement, and data distribution services as well as benchmark data and industry indices. APX-ENDEX has over 340 members from more than 15 countries. In 2009, a total volume of 412 TWh of energy was traded or cleared by APX-ENDEX, of which futures markets recorded a total of 210 TWh while spot markets had a total volume of 202 TWh. For more information visit
http://www.apxendex.com
About SunGard’s Fame Energy
Fame Energy provides enterprise data management, decision support, and quality-checked managed data services to support energy traders, research analysts, data and risk managers of energy companies and financial institutions utilizing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology. Used by oil, power and gas companies, and financial institutions, FAME Energy provides Web-based, desktop charting and analysis capabilities for energy trading, market analysis and risk management; hosted or on-site data management for managing, manipulating and distributing energy information across the enterprise. For more information visit
www.sungard.com/fameenergy
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more information, please visit SunGard at
www.sungard.com.
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