-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, CmfAoBnZEkImNhfjMjtiBCt++zv0tVzEMj2T9o0bLaKwZGivcDl0IrEd0NbqnFng +uj3MehR1e+L9cGGH4wfBQ== 0001193805-07-001683.txt : 20070620 0001193805-07-001683.hdr.sgml : 20070620 20070620144229 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193805-07-001683 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070618 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20070620 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070620 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NYFIX INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000099047 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-COMPUTER INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DESIGN [7373] IRS NUMBER: 061344888 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-21324 FILM NUMBER: 07931065 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 WALL STREET STREET 2: 26TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10005 BUSINESS PHONE: 212-809-3542 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 WALL STREET STREET 2: 26TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10005 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: TRINITECH SYSTEMS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19940404 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: TRANS AIRE ELECTRONICS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19910916 8-K 1 e602291_8k-nyfix.htm CURRENT REPORT Form 8-K — NYFIX, Inc.

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
____________________

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 18, 2007

NYFIX, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

0-21324
(Commission File Number)

06-1344888
(IRS Employer Identification No.)


100 Wall Street, 26
th Floor, New York, New York 10005

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 212 809-3542

______________________________________________________
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 8.01.  Other Events

On June 18, 2007, NYFIX, Inc. (the “Company”) issued two press releases, (the “Press Releases”), which include certain information with regard to the Company’s introduction of Euro-Millennium, an alternative trading system for pan-European listed cash equities, and MillenniumPlus, a new feature of Millennium that aggregates disparate liquidity sources from throughout the securities industry, respectively. Copies of the Press Releases are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2, respectively, and are hereby incorporated by reference in this Item 8.01.

Item 9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

99.1 Press release of NYFIX, Inc., dated June 18, 2007, “NYFIX Brings Dark Pool of Liquidity to Europe.”

99.2 Press release of NYFIX, Inc., dated June 18, 2007, “NYFIX Introduces MillenniumPlus.”

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

     
  NYFIX, INC.
     
     
  By: /s/ Scott Bloom
   

Name: Scott Bloom
Title: Secretary

Dated: June 20, 2007

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

99.1 Press release of NYFIX, Inc., dated June 18, 2007, “NYFIX Brings Dark Pool of Liquidity to Europe.”

99.2 Press release of NYFIX, Inc., dated June 18, 2007, “NYFIX Introduces MillenniumPlus.”

EX-99.1 2 e602291_ex99-1.htm PRESS RELEASE NYFIX, Inc. — Press Release, dated June 18, 2007

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

FOR INVESTORS FOR MEDIA
 
Jed Hamilton
Intermarket Communications
(212) 754-5479
Brian Prenoveau, CFA
Integrated Corporate Relations
(203) 682-8200

NYFIX Brings Dark Pool of Liquidity to Europe
Euro-Millennium will go live in 2007

LONDON, June 18, 2007 – NYFIX, Inc. today announced the introduction of Euro-Millennium, an alternative trading system for pan-European listed cash equities. The service, which is scheduled to go live in Q4 2007, will be a UK regulated Multi-Lateral Trading Facility (MTF) for non-displayed liquidity in pan-European listed cash equities.

The Company revealed that it was on track with its plans for launching the service. A management team based in London is running the project and an Advisory Board of senior market participants from both Buy-Side and Sell-Side firms from across Europe has been established. Drawn from all facets of the European investment community, the Advisory Board has been created to guide and advise on specific workflow, functionality and commercial aspects to meet European market needs.

Euro-Millennium will draw on the experience gained in operating the successful Millennium ATS, NYFIX’s US based equity “dark pool”which has been in operation since 2001. Euro-Millennium will be open to all Buy-Side and Sell-Side professional market participants and will offer a continuous matching pool, executing orders in accordance with client-determined profiles. There are no bids and offers displayed to the market, hence the term “dark pool”, with executions being anonymous between the two counterparties.

“We are offering Euro-Millennium in response to unprecedented developments within the European regulatory environment and to important changes in the way liquidity is being sourced,” said Howard Edelstein, CEO of NYFIX, Inc. “As the operator of one of the most successful neutral dark pools in the United States and one of the leading innovators in this space, we are well-positioned to support our clients’ needs for alternative trading technologies in Europe. We believe that dark pools will become an important complement to exchange liquidity in the new European environment and that the co-existence of these alternative market centers will allow market participants to optimize their trading strategies.”

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Leveraging its experience with the US version, Euro-Millennium will offer clients the ability to participate in the pool by placing Conditional Orders, which reside in the service until matched, or by sending Pass-Through orders which participate in a single matching cycle in search of a match, before being onward routed to another destination of the client’s choice, all within milliseconds.

“European markets and client trading strategies are changing rapidly. 2007 will be remembered as the year in which the foundations for a more effective pan-European equity marketplace were laid. Driven by both the upcoming MiFID regulatory change and by the increased adoption of electronic trading, the demand for a service which enables market participants to find liquidity in a broad range of pan-European shares on an anonymous basis is now critical. Combine this need with the ability to limit information leak, reduce market impact and offer an ability to seek best execution and you have the reasons behind the launch of Euro-Millennium” said Chris Smith, Head of Business Development for Euro-Millennium.

About NYFIX, Inc.
A pioneer in electronic trading solutions, NYFIX continues to transform trading through innovation. The NYFIX MarketplaceTM is a global community of trading counterparties utilizing innovative services that optimize the business of trading. NYFIX Millennium provides the Marketplace community with new methods of accessing liquidity. NYFIX also provides value-added informational and analytic services and powerful tools for measuring execution quality. A trusted business partner to buy-side and sell-side alike, NYFIX enables ultra-low touch, low impact market access and end-to-end transaction processing.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. These statements include statements about the future activities of new employees and the impact thereof on the Company. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainty, including, without limitation, risks relating to the ability of the Company to market and develop products and services. There can be no assurance that the

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forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by the Company or any other person that the objectives and plans of the Company will be achieved. All trademarks, trade names, logos, and service marks referenced herein belong to NYFIX, Inc.

Please visit http://www.nyfix.com for more information about NYFIX.

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EX-99.2 3 e602291_ex99-2.htm PRESS RELEASE NYFIX, Inc. — Press Release, dated June 18, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

FOR INVESTORS   FOR MEDIA
     
Jed Hamilton
Intermarket Communications
(212) 754-5479
  Brian Prenoveau, CFA
Integrated Corporate Relations
(203) 682-8200

NYFIX Introduces Millennium PLUSTM
New Offering Expands Execution Opportunities, Combats Fragmentation

NEW YORK, June 18, 2007 – NYFIX Millennium LLC, operator of one of the industry’s leading non-displayed execution facilities, today announced the controlled release of Millennium PLUSTM, a new feature of Millennium that aggregates disparate liquidity sources from throughout the securities industry. The new feature allows Millennium participants to generate anonymous liquidity alerts to external dark pools and other passive liquidity sources, significantly increasing execution opportunities for both Resident and Pass-Through Millennium PLUS orders. Millennium PLUS is currently being offered to a select group of clients and liquidity partners, with general availability expected in Q3 2007.

Millennium PLUS offers the unique benefit of allowing orders to interact with a broad universe of liquidity while preventing information leakage and minimizing market impact. As part of the current controlled launch, Millennium PLUS is being used by a select group of early adopters. These firms have increased their match rates within Millennium by as much as 100%.

“With the ever-increasing amount of liquidity fragmentation in today’s financial markets, it has become more and more difficult for market participants to effectively source the best opportunities for execution,” said Brian Carr, CEO of NYFIX Millennium LLC. “By introducing Millennium PLUS, we are providing an efficient way to defragment and reaggregate disparate liquidity. Along with our recently-released liquidity sourcing algorithms, Millennium PLUS will be a key component of our liquidity aggregation strategy in the future.”

A Millennium PLUS order allows participants to generate liquidity alerts to third-party sources known as Passive Liquidity Partners (PLPs). These liquidity partners include systematic Buy-Side funds, external dark pools, broker internalization engines, and other pockets of hidden liquidity from across the industry. Unique to NYFIX Millennium, Millennium PLUS liquidity alerts are delivered only to computer-based systems holding live orders, rather than to traders’ screens. As a result, liquidity alerts will not be visible to

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traders or systems which may cause information leakage or market impact. Both Resident and Pass-through orders can be designated as PLUS Orders. Pass-through PLUS Orders are held in Millennium for several hundred milliseconds, just long enough for PLPs to receive the liquidity alert and automatically respond. If no response is forthcoming, the order is passed on to the appropriate market center in the usual fashion.

“The ability to aggregate dark pools is of absolute value with the significant amount of the fragmented and hidden liquidity in today’s market,” commented Larry Tabb, co-founder and CEO of TABB Group, a leading research and advisory firm to the financial markets. “With the proper tools, market participants will be able to much more effectively navigate the murky world of dark liquidity while minimizing information leakage, managing market impact and attaining the best execution possible.”

In a research report released earlier this year, TABB Group predicted that volume of non-displayed liquidity execution will reach nearly 1.5 billion a day by 2010, representing 15% of total equity market share.

Launched in 2001, NYFIX Millennium has been at the forefront of the dark pool movement and has built one of the largest liquidity centers in the industry, touching more than a billion shares a day. Matched shares in Millennium now average more than 50 million daily. On May 1, 2007, NYFIX Millennium set a single-day volume record by matching more than 80 million shares.

About NYFIX Millennium, LLC
NYFIX Millennium is an automated execution venue designed to maximize execution quality and reduce overall transaction costs. Millennium offers users the opportunity to achieve price or liquidity improvements while mitigating negative impact for institutional-size trades. Linked to the primary markets and exchanges, Millennium leverages the power of the NYFIX MarketplaceTM while its real-time matching algorithm routinely executes trades at or better than the National Best Bid or Offer (NBBO).

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About NYFIX, Inc.
A pioneer in electronic trading solutions, NYFIX continues to transform trading through innovation. The NYFIX MarketplaceTM is a global community of trading counterparties utilizing innovative services that optimize the business of trading. NYFIX Millennium provides the Marketplace community with new methods of accessing liquidity. NYFIX also provides value-added informational and analytic services and powerful tools for measuring execution quality. A trusted business partner to buy-side and sell-side alike, NYFIX enables ultra-low touch, low impact market access and end-to-end transaction processing. NYFIX ranked 1st among 179 market participants for NYSE execution quality based on price in a study recently conducted by Celent LLC, a leading research and advisory firm for the securities industry.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. These statements include statements about the future activities of new employees and the impact thereof on the Company. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainty, including, without limitation, risks relating to the ability of the Company to market and develop products and services. There can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by the Company or any other person that the objectives and plans of the Company will be achieved. All trademarks, trade names, logos, and service marks referenced herein belong to NYFIX, Inc.

Please visit http://www.nyfix.com for more information about NYFIX.

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