Ankara, Turkey -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/19/2012 -- Olympia Capital Research, Ltd., a leading supplier of equity research and financial services, has recently announced that Robert Northcraft has joined the company's research team. With more than two decade's worth of experience, he will be very critical to the growth of the business as well as the continuing rise in the status of the company within the financial research community.

"Olympia Capital has increased revenues for the past couple of years and improvement of the organizational foundation is a testament to that rate of growth," said Dr. Michael R. Sternberg, CIO. "Robert Nothcraft's passion and knowledge makes him an invaluable member of the Olympia Research team."

Robert Northcraft will be assigned to making analysis and forecasts on trends of the Eastern European and South East Asian economies. He will observe and comment on developments that will in turn affect the economy as well as the investors who are committed to those markets. Besides giving critical information to Olympia Capital's clients, Northcraft will be monitoring all the products of the company.

"One of the most important things to note as of recent is that analysis of these markets has now become very important for investors," said Mr. Northcraft. "There are no words to describe my excitement in joining a firm that has such a global reach and a commanding presence in the industry."

Olympia Capital Research, Ltd. has hundreds of customers that are being serviced for more than thousands upon thousands of requests for information on an annual basis. Robert Northcraft will be joining the company in the best time possible as Olympia Capital has shown record-setting development and growth due to its new product lines. Before becoming a member of Olympia Capital, Robert Northcraft was an economist and analyst at some of the most prestigious financial companies in the UK and recently spending more than a decade in an advisory capacity to UK institutional investors.

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Ankara, Turkey -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/17/2012 -- Olympia Capital Research, Ltd. has announced the launch of OCAP-SYSTEM, a trading algorithm that enables the implementation of multiple portfolio level instructions such as risk neutralization and cash balancing.

Using over 56 different risk metrics, OCAP-SYSTEM optimizes execution at the portfolio level by taking into account correlations between assets, as well as volatility and projected market impact. The result is better overall execution and risk management. OCAP-SYSTEM also offers traders improved performance by reducing the variance of execution costs. With this launch, buy-side traders can directly access the new portfolio-trading algorithm used by Olympia Capital's Portfolio Trading Desk.

"The addition of OCAP-SYSTEM to our constantly evolving suite of algorithms underscores our commitment to providing our clients with a complete set of trading tools and solutions to manage their global execution needs," said Dr. Michael R. Sternberg, CIO and Managing Director of Olympia Analytics.

The OCAP-SYSTEM supports futures, options and exchange-traded funds, and accesses venues in all major markets in line with Olympia Capital's liquidity philosophy. In addition, OCAP-SYSTEM offers clients the ability to analyze each step in the lifecycle of the trade by seamlessly integrating with multi-asset analytics platforms.

Clients can access Equity and Derivative choice matrixes through the OCAP-SYSTEM trading platform or through a vendor partner and can execute trades by themselves or with the support of the Firm's experienced Electronic or Portfolio Trading teams. OCAP-SYSTEM is currently available in Asia and in Europe and will be available in The Americas by third quarter 2012.

Olympia Capital Research, Ltd. electronic trading provides a complete spectrum of services, from pre-trade analytics and execution to post-trade execution performance analysis and volatility management. The OCAP-SYSTEM trading platform offers a comprehensive algorithmic trading suite and various direct market access strategies, including our smart order routing technology and our dark pool aggregator.

Olympia Capital Research, Ltd. is a leading global financial services firm, providing a wide range of investment banking, derivatives trading, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals.

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