Forward Newsletter - Issue 21 | Page 23

MILLENNIUMIT STARTS OFF THE YEAR WITH A SUCCESSFUL FIRST QUARTER Leading financial software and technology solutions provider MillenniumIT achieves an outstanding first quarters for 2016 with several noteworthy achievements: skilled youth in the industry to put security as a top priority in their coding. CICRA Holdings Director/CEO Boshan Dayaratne said that they are privileged to sign up with a world renowned local company such as MillenniumIT. He went on to say, “CODE UNCODE is a nationwide competition for students, professionals, colleges, and corporates. The event will bring together existing and aspiring security enthusiasts from all fields of the Infosec world ranging from corporate and government bodies to academic institutions.” Named “Best Exchange Technology” provider at 2016 Markets Choice Awards The Market Choice Awards, held in New York, is an annual award ceremony recognizing excellence among exchanges, sell-side trading desks, institutional asset owners, investment managers, technology providers and individual industry leaders. In selecting MillenniumIT as the “Best Exchange Technology” provider, the Markets Media advisory board pointed to successful rollouts in 2015 such as launching the Aequitas NEO Exchange platform in Canada and replacing the 20-year legacy platform at Bolsa de Valores de Lima (BVL) in Peru. Becomes Cisco ‘Reseller Partner of the Year for SAARC region’ During the recently concluded Cisco Partner Summit, MillenniumIT was recognised as the ‘Reseller Partner of the Year for FY 2015 for SAARC region’. MillenniumIT is the market leader in Sri Lanka for Cisco solutions and maintains leadership across Cisco’s Service Provider, Enterprise, Commercial, and Services Business segments. MillenniumIT is the only Cisco Gold partner in the country, and has achieved advanced specialisations in collaboration, borderless technologies, security, content security and datacentre. Singapore Exchange (SGX) goes live with Millennium PostTrade™ Millennium PostTrade™, the highly integrated, real time clearing, settlement and depository platform, was successfully implemented to support SGX’s Central Depository Pte. Limited’s (CDP) business. While initially enhancing SGX’s securities clearing and connectivity capabilities, it will provide a solid technology platform to replace CDP’s settlement and depository systems and SGX will work with their broker dealers and participants to migrate away from SGX’s proprietary broker back office system. CEO Mack Gill rises in renowned global ranking The trading technology 40, a ranking that showcases leaders who have distinguished themselves as managers of systems and people, and the integration of the two, has MillenniumIT CEO Mack Gill in 18th place in the 2016 list. Enters strategic partnership for Code Uncode competition Organised by CICRA Consultancies (Pvt) Ltd together with the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), USA and the Daily FT, the ‘Code Uncode Sri Lanka’ competition is the first ever nationwide hunt for the best secure software engineer. MillenniumIT is the strategic partner for this groundbreaking initiative that aims at recognising and nurturing Sri Lanka’s overall quest to increase excellence in software engineering and encourage The Trading Technology 40 are selected by editors of Institutional Investor; a leading global financial magazine, known for its extensive industry research and rankings. The leadership criteria considered for the ranking includes recent and career accomplishments and contributions to individual companies and to the industry at large; scope and complexity of executive responsibilities; and pure technological innovation. 23