Easyscreen, the software provider which connects traders to derivatives exchanges such as Liffe, is weathering an intensely difficult market in which many of its competitors are struggling to survive.

Announcing its third quarter results last week, Philip Docker, founder of the company, said that the company's pricing structure was standing it in good stead to remain as one of the few independent software vendors (ISVs) left at the end of a long-expected market shake-up.