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Asset Control Is Elected Inside Market Data’s “Data Management Vendor of the Year”

New York, April 26, 2005

Asset Control, a leading provider of centralized data management solutions to the financial industry, is pleased to announce that Inside Market Data has named the firm the “Data Management Vendor of the Year.” The award was based on votes cast by subscribers of Inside Market Data, the news service of the market data industry.

“We are particularly pleased by this honor, because it represents the voice of our most important constituency, the people who understand investment data and the challenges of managing it,” said Ger Rosenkamp, CEO of Asset Control. “It is good to know that our message of centralized and simplified data management is being heard. We couldn’t have come so far without our customers, and we look forward to building more and better ways to support our customers in the future.”

About Inside Market Data
Published since 1985, Inside Market Data remains the industry's exclusive source of inside news and expert analysis in the real-time financial information business. Every Monday, Inside Market Data is read by market data professionals at banks and securities firms around the world to track new services, pricing and content changes and market data management strategies. Published by Incisive Media plc, Inside Market Data can be found at www.insidemarketdata.com.

About Asset Control
Asset Control offers centralized data management to financial industry firms through a full range of in-house and outsourced options. A choice of developer tools, turnkey software solutions and outsourced services enable users to optimize their investment data for efficiency, cost control, reduced operational risk and increased value from their data.

Derived from the robust and reliable AC Plus modular framework, the Asset Control product set includes data solutions addressing market risk, counterparty credit risk, security master, research and corporate actions, as well as global data networking and administration. Handling data from vendors and in-house systems, these solutions collect, validate, normalize, and consolidate data into cleansed composite “golden copy” sets for business use.

Customers include the LCH.Clearnet, Abbey National, ABN AMRO, Barclays Capital, Bayerische Landesbank , BBVA, Commerzbank, IBM (Dresdner Bank), Harvard Management Company, HSH Nordbank, HypoVereinsbank, Grupo Santander, ING, Robeco Groep, Société Générale, Standard Chartered and Union Investment, as well as a super-major global energy group. Established in 1991, Asset Control is a privately held firm with operations in London, New York and the Netherlands. For more information please visit www.asset-control.com.