4th December, 2006
SEB Enskilda Equities joins Fidessa's global broker network

London – 4th December 2006: royalblue (LSE: RYB), supplier of Fidessa®, today announced that SEB Enskilda Equities are now receiving order flow from Fidessa’s global connectivity network. Fidessa users are now able to route DMA and care order flow through SEB Enskilda Equities, taking advantage of its dominant position within execution as well as clearing and settlement in the Nordic markets.

The agreement enables Fidessa users to execute cash equities and CFDs across 20 European markets including Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland as well as Xetra, Euronext, LSE and Virt-X.

Robert Anderson, responsible for DMA at SEB Enskilda Equities says: “We are pleased to strengthen our offering within electronic trading with such a reliable, high performance and well known product as Fidessa. Our partnership with Fidessa also opens up a whole new market of over 9,300 users for us to tap into and offer our local expertise.”

SEB joins some 170 financial players on Fidessa’s global connectivity network which includes Barclays, Bear Stearns, Cheuvreux, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Lehmans, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS providing execution services for global markets.

Simon McDowell, director of execution services at Fidessa, adds: “We are proud to have such a dominant regional force join the raft of tier one brokers on our connectivity network. This underlines our commitment to add regional specialists with local expertise as well as tier-one brokers with global reach. Our strategy is to provide our users with the greatest possible choice of trading venues which is inline with the forthcoming MiFID regulations on best execution.”

Fidessa’s global FIX connectivity network provides a fully normalised, robust, broker-neutral solution for clients wishing to route order flow to a variety of sell-side destinations. Typical uses of the network include buy-side to sell-side connectivity and broker-to-broker connectivity to support non-member trading across numerous markets. Access to the Fidessa network is available via the Fidessa trading platform, the Fidessa Workstation Execution Management Service and via direct FIX connections.

The Fidessa product suite provides cross-asset trading, market data and connectivity solutions to over 9,300 users at 260 client sites around the world.

Fidessa group is a world-leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for both the buy-side and sell-side globally. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero products are built on the clear vision of providing the richest functionality, coverage and distribution to the financial markets community.

The Fidessa suite is used by 85% of tier-one, global equity brokers providing sophisticated multi-asset trading, market data, order management and execution capabilities to all tiers of the sell-side.

The Fidessa LatentZero suite is used by the world’s largest asset management firms through to smaller specialist managers and hedge funds, and provides comprehensive portfolio analysis, real-time P&L, what-if analysis, investment compliance, order and execution management, and post trade processing tools, across all asset classes, to all tiers of the buy-side.

Fidessa’s global network carries over 130 million messages a month covering DMA, Care and Algorithmic orders, Indications of Interest and FIX Allocations between over 1,800 buy-sides and 310 brokers across 100 markets worldwide.

Head-quartered in London and with offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Toronto and San Francisco, Fidessa group serves 22,000 users across 600 clients globally. Fidessa group was founded in 1981, has revenues of around US$350m, employs over 1,200 people and has been fully listed (LSE:FDSA) since 1997.

For further information, please contact:

Alastair Turner
Aspectus PR (PR Agency)
+44 (0) 20 7487 8443
alastair@aspectuspr.co.uk

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