Data Vendors

EDI

Exchange Data International is a wholly owned subsidiary of Information Publishing Plc. Established in 1994; EDI has launched a series of products for the back office operations of financial institutions worldwide.

EDI is the premier provider of quality and accurate international securities administration data. The company provides back office solutions and securities data to most of the major brokerage houses, custodians, and data vendors.

www.exchange-data.com

Interactive Data

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE:IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions’ and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 6 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specialises in ‘hard-to-get’ information and evaluates many ‘hard-to value’ instruments.

Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the U.S. through Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc. and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.

For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.

www.interactivedata.com

Markit

Markit is a financial information services company with over 1,000 employees in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Over 1,000 financial institutions use our independent services to manage risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements.

Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets.

Markit has unparalleled access to a valuable dataset spanning credit, equities and the broader OTC derivative universe. We provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Dallas, Chicago, Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, Tokyo and Singapore to our clients which include investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies.

www.markit.com

Reuters

Reuters Pricing and Reference Data provides a total solution for your historical and reference data needs offering multiple delivery options, flexible timing and cross-reference capability. Reuters Pricing and Reference Data offers comprehensive, accurate global equities data from over 180 exchanges, fixed-income coverage including evaluated fixed-income pricing for more than 1 million US securities and extensive money markets, foreign exchange and futures data.

www.reuters.com

Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies NYSE:MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations. With 5000 employees located in 20 countries, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions.

www.standardandpoors.com

SIX Telekurs

SIX Telekurs specialises in the procurement, processing and distribution of international financial information for investment advisory services, portfolio management, financial analysis and securities administration. A global network of local financial market specialists procures real-time stock exchange information at source from the leading financial centres. Containing over 3 million financial instruments, the database of structured, encoded securities information maintained by SIX Telekurs and its ten representative offices abroad is unparalleled throughout the world in terms of both depth and data coverage.

www.telekurs-financial.com

WM Datenservice

WM Datenservice has been an information service provider to the financial industry for over 60 years, playing a decisive role in the optimisation of business processes (STP). WM Datenservice actively supports standardisation processes on both the European and international levels through competent servicing and constant evolution, research, and innovation. In Germany, WM Datenservice as the official national numbering agency (NNA), is responsible for the allocation of WKNs and ISINs.

www.wmdaten.de