Quintillion and Paladyne Team Up to Provide Leading Fund Administration and Technology Solutions to Hedge Funds

NEW YORK, NY and Dublin, Ireland – December 5, 2006 – Paladyne Systems, LLC today announced that it has licensed its PALADYNE™ product suite to Quintillion, a global provider of fund administration, middle- and back-office outsourcing, and technology services to the hedge fund industry. Quintillion has integrated PALADYNE’s front- and middle-office software with their existing portfolio accounting system, Advent Geneva® to streamline operations and to significantly expand their technology and client service offering.

Quintillion has implemented the PALADYNE ASP™ solution, a fully-hosted offering including software, hardware, database maintenance, IT and disaster recovery services. Paladyne’s hosted platform may be accessed remotely from each of Quintillion’s global office locations and is fully-integrated with Quintillion’s local installation of Advent Geneva® in Dublin. By leveraging PALADYNE ASP, Quintillion may expand its service offering by providing direct client access to Paladyne’s front- and middle-office tools including order management, real-time P&L and portfolio management, data warehousing, custom reporting, and performance analysis.

“In order to realize our vision of streamlined middle- and back-office administration and technology services, we needed to complement our Advent Geneva® software with PALADYNE’s integrated suite of products,” said Joan Kehoe, Chief Executive Officer of Quintillion. “We plan to grow our business significantly and with the Paladyne partnership, we now have tremendous scalability and flexibility to expand the scope of our services and provide technology infrastructure directly to our customers.”

“We are excited to partner with experienced industry veterans that understand the challenges facing fund administrators today,” said Sameer Shalaby, Chief Executive Officer of Paladyne Systems. “We are confident that Quintillion has the right team, business model, and investor support to execute on their vision of becoming a leading global fund administrator. We are excited that our product suite is an integral part of Quintillion’s infrastructure enabling them to service hedge funds of any size and complexity, from start-up funds to multi-strategy global institutions,” he said.

Paladyne and Quintillion are working together to integrate their product offerings and expect to have clients in production by year-end.

About Quintillion

Quintillion (www.quintillion.ie) opened in 2006 as an independently operated fund administration company based in Dublin’s IFSC. Quintillion was founded by a number of industry veterans to revolutionize the administration industry with world class service and leading edge technology solutions.

About Paladyne Systems

Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company, is the leading provider of next generation investment management solutions. Paladyne offers its integrated front-, middle- and back-office platform, known as the Paladyne Suite™, to hedge funds, asset managers, fund administrators and prime brokers. The modular Paladyne Suite™ includes order management, portfolio management, reference data management, data warehouse reporting and reconciliation and is complemented by the Paladyne Network™, which comprises a select group of preferred strategic partnerships with leading software and market data firms. The solution can be delivered onsite or via Paladyne's industry-leading application service provider solution, Paladyne ASP™. Paladyne was established in 2005 and now serves over 180 clients worldwide. The firm has approximately 165 employees, and is headquartered in New York, with regional offices in New Jersey, London, Russia and Hong Kong.

The Paladyne® Suite includes the following modules:

  • Paladyne Portfolio Master™ — provides electronic trading, order management and allocation, portfolio management, real-time P&L, and strategy-based performance tracking.
  • Paladyne Credit Master™ — provides loan processing and administration to fully support loan trading, analysis, reporting, and management.
  • Paladyne Analytics Master™ — provides portfolio analytics, data aggregation, and custom reporting tools.
  • Paladyne Security Master™ — provides a centralized terms and conditions repository and distribution engine with real-time updates and corporate action alerts.
  • Paladyne Price Master™ — provides automated collection, storage, and time series analysis of prices and market data from any third-party sources.

About Broadridge

Broadridge is a technology services company focused on global capital markets. Broadridge is the market leader enabling secure and accurate processing of information for communications and securities transactions among issuers, investors and financial intermediaries. Broadridge builds the infrastructure that underpins proxy services for over 90% of public companies and mutual funds in North America; processes more than $4 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day; and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.