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Article: Computershare Retains Clients.(EFA Software)
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- Securities Industry News
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- June 30, 2003
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Attempting to quell market talk of a client exodus, Australian software vendor Computershare said last week that it has retained all two dozen former EFA Software customers.
Computershare acquired the intellectual property rights to EFA Software's Horizon trading system and Equator settlement platform for C$6.2 million ($4.6 million) in January-several months after EFA went bankrupt. However, industry observers had questioned whether some of EFA's clients would seek alternative trading and settlement systems, since many of EFA's top executives-and software developers-had branched out into their own firm also based in Calgary, Canada-home to EFA Software. EFA was ...