18/3/2011

Ref: 110318CTI

CTI Group, the international provider of enterprise call recording and call accounting solutions for VoIP, mobile and PBX telephony systems, today announced that its Proteus Trader call accounting solution has successfully completed compliance testing with the Speakerbus i turret.  The i turret utilises an existing IP-PBX infrastructure to deliver a significant return on investment compared to traditional trading platforms. By reducing the back room footprint clients are able to reduce cost, minimise complexity and optimise support skills.

Proteus Trader is a comprehensive and sophisticated call accounting solution engineered specifically for the global financial and energy trading industries.  It is the most widely used call accounting tool in the Middle East, London, New York and Chicago.  By integrating Proteus Trader with the i turret, financial institutions across the globe will have access to a high-performance global trading system ideal for a variety of applications including investment banking, hedge fund management, spread betting, energy and commodity trading.

Designed with the scalability to meet the needs of organisations from large multinational investment banks to small IFAs, Proteus Trader is capable of collecting call data and costs from multiple countries in real-time or on a scheduled basis, offering complete transparency of call costs from multiple carriers and currencies.  Its wide range of performance management and cost savings inventory features include:

•    Private wire inventory - identifies unused and under-utilised private-wires; keeps private wire inventories current and ensures complete visibility of activity
•    Allocates costs and usage of private wires, telephony and Hoot ‘n’ Holler to individual traders
•    Real-time statistics on individual trader activity – for example, most and least active traders by day of the week
•    Trend analysis and report generator – standard and bespoke reports highlight trends in trader activity, usage and costs incurred across entire communications system
•    Fraud prevention - proactively alerts organisation of unusual and potentially fraudulent use

John Graves, Product Manager at Speakerbus, stated, “The successful compliance testing of CTI Group’s Proteus Trader with Speakerbus’ i turret provides customers with the assurance of robust product interoperability, which further strengthens our i turret value add, to both new and existing customers.”

John continued, “By providing interoperability with Proteus’ specific trader focused features, especially the private wire inventory and trader reporting functions, our customers will be able to choose an application that greatly enhances their trading platform.  As a well respected vendor within the financial services industry, we are always keen to expand our ecosystem of partner applications.  By providing customers with a choice of applications that enhances our i turret value proposition we are exceeding the needs of our multinational clients.”

Charles Rich, CTI Group’s Sales Manager for Global Financial Markets, commented, “CTI Group has long enjoyed dominance in the financial sector and by partnering with a global leading innovator like Speakerbus we are able to enhance our product offering to both new and existing customers.  This development is also exciting for our channel partners as it will provide them with new opportunities to speak to customers in the global financial and energy trading industries.”

CTI Group is committed to supporting its channel partners in opening up the financial services market. This is delivered through its global support and development infrastructure which is dedicated to delivering market leading, intuitive and compliant call accounting and call recording products, specifically tailored for the investment and retail banking sectors.  Both the Speakerbus i turret and CTI Group’s entire Proteus suite of call accounting solutions have passed the Cisco Interoperability Verification Testing (IVT) for the Cisco Unified Communications Manager.

For more information on CTI Group or Speakerbus, please visit www.ctigroup.com or www.speakerbus.com

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