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| 1983 | Macdonald Associates Ltd is founded by Roger Macdonald in Reading, UK. |
| Launch software for auction houses: Macdonald Auctioneering Package (MAP). | |
| 1989 | After graduating from Manchester University, George Macdonald starts to work in Aachen, Germany. |
| He works on software projects for IBM, e.g. Valuta-IDS, an FX trading System, later also for Philips in Eindhoven, Netherlands. | |
| 1992 | George becomes a shareholder of Macdonald Associates Ltd. |
| 1994 | OARIS is founded in Urdorf, Switzerland by Kurt Meister and Andreas Reist. |
| 1996 | George Macdonald moves to Zürich, Switzerland to support the members of SIX Swiss Exchange in the move to electronic trading. |
| 1999 | Together with Lucas Fowler George Macdonald creates a development department to provide not just consulting but also projects and products. |
| Launch xConnect: xConnect is a software and interconnectivity tool which allows varied and differing systems to be connected via a defined set of business rules. | |
| 2000 | George Macdonald founds Macdonald Associates GmbH in Aachen, Germany. |
| The first customer, Deutsche Bank, chooses xConnect to interface between their Swiss and UK offices. | |
| 2001 | Launch of globalXtrade (GLOX): globalXtrade is based on xConnect, offering cost effective and easy exchange connectivity; the first market being SIX Swiss Exchange. |
| Connectivity is offered using a FIX interface and Java trading front end. | |
| 2004 | MACD becomes a member of the FIX Trading Community and begins providing support for QuickFIX. |
| 2007 | Due to the increasing presence in Switzerland, Macdonald Associates AG in Maur (CH) is founded. |
| At the behest of a new customer, the data centre was moved from Germany to Switzerland with a dual site configuration. | |
| MACD offices in Aachen, Germany are now located in a magnificent old building in the Frankenberger quarter of Aachen. | |
| 2009 | Launch Trading System XKYTE by OARIS. |
| 2011 | AIXECUTE goes live at BX Swiss and OTC-X (BEKB). |
| AIXECUTE is a full solution exchange system for banks wishing to create an internal market, and for mid-sized exchanges. | |
| 2012 | 10Years GLOX Event with MACD team and GLOX customers in the Couven Museum in Aachen, Germany. |
| 2013 | Macdonald Associates is renamed to MACD. |
| 2014 | EUREX connection goes live. MACD becomes a EUREX ASP. |
| 2017 | MACD and OARIS bundle forces. |
| 2018 | XKYTE is integrated with GLOX and benefits from access to the entire universe of brokers and destinations on the GLOX network. |
| MACD and OARIS formally merge and operate under the unified name MACD. At the same time, a new corporate design and website is launched. | |
