SunGard's Adaptiv and Front Arena Win Banking Technology Readers' Choice Awards

LONDON, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard has won two categories in the fifth annual Banking Technology Readers' Choice Awards. SunGard's Front Arena, a global capital markets solution that delivers position control and electronic trading across multiple asset classes and business lines, was named "Best Trading Solution", and Adaptiv, a suite of solutions for enterprise-wide risk management, was voted "Best Risk Management Product." Both solutions have been recognized in every Readers' Choice Awards since their inception in 2007.

The Banking Technology Readers' Choice Awards are determined by votes from the publication's 40,000-plus readership. Readers were asked to nominate their choice of vendors and products across a range of categories

David Bannister, editor of Banking Technology, said, "The banking industry continues to face extremely challenging times, and building out enterprise-wide infrastructures across geographies, business lines and technology is crucial. The Banking Technology Readers' Choice Awards are a unique opportunity for banks and other purchasers of these systems to publicly recognize the companies and solutions that are helping them manage – and even thrive – in this environment."

Juerg Hunziker, president of SunGard's Front Arena and Adaptiv business units, said, "Customer feedback is a critical element of both our business strategy and our product development plans. Winning these awards is recognition that we are providing the technology and services that our customers need."

About SunGard's Adaptiv

SunGard's Adaptiv provides enterprise-wide credit and market risk management and operations solutions for financial services institutions.  Adaptiv assists institutions of varying size and complexity to deploy technology to meet both internal and regulatory requirements for risk management and operational control.  Adaptiv helps financial services institutions from the banking, hedge fund, asset management, insurance and corporate sectors with its deep understanding of risk management and operational processes. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com/enterpriserisk.

About SunGard's Front Arena

SunGard's Front Arena is a global capital markets solution that delivers position control across multiple asset classes and business lines. Integrating sales and distribution, trading and risk management, and settlement and accounting, Front Arena helps capital markets businesses around the world improve performance, transparency and automation. Find out more at http://www.sungard.com/positioncontrol.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves over 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, 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 of about $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, visit www.sungard.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, Adaptiv and Front Arena are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

For more information, please contact:
Adriana Senior
SunGard Financial Systems
Tel:  +1 718 578 1130
Email: [email protected]

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