Nippon Apollo Computer is stepping up its efforts in the financial systems market, and in conjunction with a major trust bank, it has a new financial systems project team working on securities dealing software for Japanese banks, broking houses and life insurance companies: the software is being tailored to run on the Domain series of workstations locally networked with other workstations and with personal computers via an expansion board; the software is expected to be ready for sale by the middle of next year, and will be marketed by a specialist financial team.