| QuIC, a new name and new look for Quadrus Financial Technologies New name to reflect the positioning of the company and its products Vancouver, BC, October 10, 2005 - Quadrus Financial Technologies Inc. a leading innovator in enterprise-wide risk management and financial analytics solutions, today announced it has renamed the company QuIC Financial Technologies Inc (QuIC). This name change aligns the company name and product suite under the QuICTM brand. In its first full year of commercial operations, the company's QuIC (Quantitative Interactive Configuration) technology has been successfully deployed at a number of financial institutions globally, including seven tier 1 banks. The technology, which is vector based, has the ability to provide fast and accurate pricing and risk analytics and has been successfully deployed in both the front and middle offices to date. The key value proposition for the front office is revenue generation. QuIC based solutions can calculate prices at high speeds, regardless of volume or complexity. Alternative solutions can take hours to perform the same calculations. The QuIC solution is flexible, significantly reduces time to market and offers rapid deployment. It can run on multiple operating systems and has been designed to scale up or down to run on anything from a single laptop to large distributed server environments. 'QuIC' is a global solutions provider for pricing, risk management and financial analytics. The QuIC Engine™ provides speed, accuracy and flexibility for pricing and risk calculations regardless of volume or complexity. Based on component technology, QuIC delivers scalable, dynamically extensible and user-customizable solutions, by creating a seamless calculation fabric available to multiple recipients throughout the enterprise. QuIC Product Suite easily integrates with in-house, partner and third-party applications & systems and operates in diverse environments, from a single laptop to a large distributed grid. Applications include data & model calibration, real-time pricing of complex derivatives and high-volume portfolio simulation and analytics for market & credit risk, all delivered by user defined sophisticated valuation and simulation methods. For more information please visit www.quic.com For press information contact: QuIC Europe: Andy Sephton Write Image, Ltd. 44 (0) 20 7959 5492 Andy.sephton@write-image.co.uk QuIC US/Canada: Derek Shorkey MacLaren McCann +1 604 601 8579 press@quic.com « Back to 2005 News |



