Tora is the recognized leader in electronic trading platforms and access to liquidity focused on Asia. Tora offers a unique portfolio of products that have been developed to specifically address the trading challenges unique to Asia. Tora’s products include:

TORA Compass – the most comprehensive multi-market, multi-broker, multi-product trading platform with electronic access to more than 75 global and regional brokers, 24 exchanges in 14 countries and over 10 off-exchange liquidity venues as well as over 150 algorithmic trading strategies;

TORA Equity Trading – an agency-only trading desk that combines the strength of the TORA Compass platform and traditional brokerage relationships to provide clients with first-class execution capabilities; and

TORA Clearpool – an automated facilitation product that offers transparent off-exchange liquidity for Asia.

Tora processes over 25% of all electronic trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange each month. Utilizing state-of-the-art infrastructure, Tora provides low latency, 99.99% up time and high reliability across multiple markets. Tora's products are provided in an application service provider (ASP) model, and require no IT infrastructure or staff at the client site. The trading platform integrates with a full complement of third-party and proprietary order management, portfolio management, risk, accounting and other back-office and compliance systems.

Chi-X® - innovators of low cost, high speed alternative execution venues

Chi-X® will soon deliver order-driven alternative execution venues to equity markets around the world, offering low-cost, high-speed alternatives to trading on the traditional stock exchanges.

Chi-X’s innovative and sophisticated proprietary technology– already in operation in Europe and Canada – will offer a low-cost, high-speed trading platform. When combined with several innovative order types, trading often results in tighter bid-ask spreads than the traditional exchanges, which ultimately helps deliver price improvement opportunities to participants and their end clients.

By offering a competitive alternative, Chi-X believes markets will become more attractive to the international investment community.

For further information, please contact:

Joseph Marchal                                  Robert Rooks
Chief Executive Officer APAC           Chief Administration Officer APAC
joseph.marchal@chi-x.com                robert.rooks@chi-x.com

www.chi-x.com

ULLINK provides international financial institutions with low-latency connectivity and trading solutions, offering over 300 ready-to-trade connections to favourite destinations: buy-side clients, brokers, exchanges, MTFs, ECNs, order routing networks, and trading applications – in all formats and for all asset classes.

• Connectivity
ULLINK’s universal connectivity platform, UL BRIDGE, enables customers to build modular and scalable environments that relieve them from technical dependence on a specific vendor, while handling pre-trade risk and best execution requirements. ULLINK also provides a MiFID-compliant Smart Order Router, and turn-key DMA gateways to the world’s most active exchanges.

• Trading and order management
ULLINK solutions include a comprehensive Order Management System with order flow monitoring, exception management, dedicated Sales and Dealer interfaces, and an advanced trading application with automated and algorithmic trading capabilities.

• Electronic trading network
Connect to UL NET and access hundreds of counterparties through a single point, while benefiting from truly innovative services (global order monitoring, online libraries of algorithms, etc.).

• Support & services
ULLINK’s flexible solutions are available in-house, in Facilities Management or through our global hub, UL NET. With offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong, ULLINK supports hundreds of clients, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, across time zones.

For further information, please visit www.ullink.com

or contact : sales@ullink.com

Today, TNS’ Secure Trading Extranet connects over 1500 financial community end-points around the world. It has been designed and is managed 24 x 7 to ensure high levels of throughput and lowest latency to support Direct Market Access, Algorithmic Trading and Market Data Distribution amongst other types of data.

Choose TNS if you want:

• Easy, scalable access to a large community of Exchanges, Data Vendors, Applications and Trading Counterparts.
• A fully secure service.
• A quick response, driven by the need for faster trades and executions.
  Minimum network latency.
• High availability, as with TNS there is no single point of failure

To find out how TNS can help you stay ahead of the market in the fast paced financial world, visit www.tnsfinancial.com or contact John Pilch on +852 3180 9302 or jpilch@tnsi.com

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 26 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com

Advanced Execution Services - AES® is Credit Suisse's award-winning suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global equity trading, all of which are accessible from the systems already on your desk. The award-winning automated strategies can help reduce market impact, improve performance versus benchmarks, and let the trader focus on the bigger picture. For more information please contact AES® Trading Desk +852 2101 6443 / (toll free) +800 222 2334.

UBS's Investment Bank is one of the world's leading investment banking and securities firms, providing a full range of products and services to corporate and institutional clients, governments, financial intermediaries and alternative asset managers. Its investment bankers, salespeople and research analysts, supported by its risk and logistics teams, deliver advice and execution to clients all over the world. The Investment Bank also works with financial sponsors and hedge funds and indirectly meets the needs of private investors through both UBS's own wealth management business and through other private banks.

About Liquidnet
Liquidnet is an electronic marketplace that facilitates institutional equities trading for asset management firms worldwide. By giving buy-side traders a first look at a global natural liquidity pool of more than 8.74 billion shares per day of liquidity on average, Liquidnet consolidates and delivers the institutional equities market directly to the desktops of 552 buy-side trading firms. Institutional investors use the Liquidnet marketplace to enhance the quality and speed of trade execution, gain price improvement for their trades, and, ultimately, lower overall trading costs. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet now trades in 29 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore. Additional company information is available online at www.liquidnet.com.

Liquidnet in Australia
Liquidnet began operations in Australia on 20/02/08 following the company’s roll out across Japan (off-shore), Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea on 29/11/07. Japan on-shore trading began on 19/06/08. Since its launch, Liquidnet Australia has seen 71 members trade over A$3.5 billion in Australian securities. Globally there are 130 members enabled to trade with Liquidnet Australia, which manages an average daily liquidity pool of A$1.9 billion. Liquidnet Australia is headed by Sam Macqueen, former head of trading at Schroders Investment Management Australia, and Stephen Zilioli, former senior sales trader at UBS.