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Lead Sponsor

Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrumof solutions for their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, with the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide. Barclays Capital is an acknowledged leader in advanced equity products and services. our sales and trading teams provide clients with distinctive trading insight, full-service trade execution and customised solutions across all products. our Liquid Markets business aligns cash and portfolio trading with electronic trading to address all of the execution needs of our clients. We provide intelligent and efficient access to liquidity globally through an end-to-end suite of electronic trading solutions executed through a variety of order/execution management systems, including RealTick(r). BARX is Barclays Capital’s award-winning electronic services platform offering electronic execution across fixed income, FX, futures, commodities, money markets, emerging markets and structured products and equities. For further information please call +44 (0) 20 7773 8500.

    

Principal Sponsors

London Stock Exchange Group is Europe's leading diversified exchange business, incorporating Borsa Italiana and London Stock Exchange. With over 500 member firms and more than 3,000 companies quoted across its markets, the Group operates the largest and most liquid equity marketplace in Europe.

The Group offers trading in a wide range of instruments, holding the number one position in trading exchange traded products (ETFs and ETCs) and through its interest in MTS, is the leading platform for the trading of fixed income products. Through MOT it offers a comprehensive range of European corporate and government bond trading services. Its Italian Derivatives Exchange Market (IDEM) sees over €2.5 billion worth of trading every day, and through EDX London the Group provides a facility for the trading of Scandinavian and Russian equity derivatives.

London Stock Exchange Group also offers post-trade services such as netting, clearing and settlement on an efficient and competitive basis. These include services from Monte Titoli, the Central Securities Depository for all Italian financial instruments, and Cassa di Compensazione & Garanzia (CC&G), which in July 2009 was granted Recognised Oversaeas Clearing House (ROCH) status by the FSA to operate in the UK.

London Stock Exchange itself is the world's most international exchange with over 600 overseas companies from more than 70 countries quoted on its markets. These figures include international companies on AIM, the London Stock Exchange's growth market, which has grown to become the world's most successful market for small and medium sized enterprises with 1,385 companies at the end of July 2009.

    

Credit Agricole Cheuvreux is a leading European full-service broker, a subsidiary of Calyon and a member of AA-rated Crédit Agricole S.A. Group, one of the world's leading banking institutions.

With more than 800 dedicated professionals in 15 offices, CA Cheuvreux is focused on delivering research, sales and execution services to institutional investors worldwide.

'Leading Research, Global Execution, Local Presence'. These are key elements in CA Cheuvreux's success, and are offered through independent high value-added research, global execution capacity and local market knowledge. Its research team of 115 analysts and economists covers nearly 800 stocks in Europe and the Middle East. As a key source of liquidity, CA Cheuvreux offers access to over 60 execution venues worldwide. It's experienced teams provide a full spectrum of execution services: Sales Trading, DMA, Algorithmic Trading, Global Portfolio Trading and CFDs. Continuous investment in technology and new market access are top priorities.

    

BNP Paribas (rated AA/Aa1) is a European leader in banking and financial services, and is one of the 6 strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor’s. BNP Paribas Equity Derivatives offers a full range of equity and fund-linked products that can be customised to address the various needs of financial institutions and hedge funds as well as corporate and retail clients. Global Execution Services is part of BNP Paribas Equity Derivatives’ Financing division, alongside Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending and Borrowing, Funding & IR. Global Execution Services offers global execution solutions, ranging from straight, low latency DMA pipes to complex Global Portfolio & Algorithmic Trading or Liquidity access strategies. BNP Paribas’ global activity generates large volumes of flow, accounting for significant market share on both main global exchanges and emerging markets.

    

Deutsche Bank <NYSE: DB> is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With 80,456 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.

Within Deutsche Bank, the Global Markets Division is responsible for the origination, sale, structuring and trading of fixed income, equity, commodity, foreign exchange, derivative and money market products.

Global Markets has established itself as a global leader in these products by combining its unique distribution franchise with its pricing, structuring and execution expertise.

Global Markets is dedicated to delivering exceptional capital raising, risk management and investment solutions that meet the precise needs of its clients.

The Global Markets Division employs more than 6,000 professionals in 39 trading rooms around the world.

Deutsche Bank is one of the only institutions in the world able to address the diverse asset gathering and liability management needs of corporations, governments, institutional investors, hedge funds and financial institutions on a truly global basis.

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., member NYSE, FINRA and SIPC, is the investment banking and securities arm of Deutsche Bank AG in the United States.

Contact: Andrew Morgan, +44 20 7545 8000

    

Investment Technology Group® is a specialised agency brokerage and financial technology firm that partners with asset managers globally to provide innovative solutions spanning the investment continuum. A leader in electronic trading since launching POSIT® in 1987, ITG’s integrated approach now includes a range of products from portfolio management and pre-trade analysis to trade execution and post-trade evaluation. Asset managers rely on ITG’s independence, experience, and agility to help mitigate risk, improve performance and navigate increasingly complex markets. ITG has established a strong and growing presence in key financial centres around the world to serve the needs of global institutions. Headquartered in New York, ITG has offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Contact: info@itg.com, +44 (0)20 7670 4030

    

Nomura's Electronic Trading Services have the full benefit from the long standing experience, intelligence and technology of the Nomura Group, including the acquired Lehman businesses, renowned for providing clients a robust, low latency and highly scalable platform. The fully integrated product suite combining DMA, strategy execution via the award winning* ModelEx suite and electronic guaranteed capital products, supplemented with advanced pre, intra and post trade analytical tools, provide clients with a full service solution to their low touch execution needs. All execution channels are underpinned by next generation smart order routing logic, providing access to multiple sources of available liquidity with an intelligent placement approach. Client execution experience is further enriched via access to Nomura's NX dark pool.

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asian-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. For further information please visit www.nomura.com

* TheTrade, 2008; heritage Lehman

Contact: Adam Toms, electronic-eu@nomura.com, +44 20 7102 1000

    

RealTick, created by Townsend Analytics, is the electronic trading industry’s premier global, broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System (EMS). RealTick’s unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front-to-back solution including sophisticated trading tools; unrivaled access to leading global brokers, exchanges and ECNs; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools - to institutions, broker-dealers and active traders worldwide. RealTick’s advanced technical design is supported by Townsend’s state-of-the-art global data centers and a redundant network for market data and orders for ultimate stability and resiliency.

Townsend Analytics has been changing the way the world trades since 1985. The Chicago-based company created many technology innovations that are now considered standards in the financial services industry including the first real-time financial software and direct access trading solution for Microsoft Windows®, first product to deliver streaming data over the Internet and many others. Townsend Analytics also developed Archipelago and the Archipelago Exchange, the nation’s first all-electronic, fully open exchange.

For further information about RealTick and Townsend Analytics, please call us at 212-679-9000, +44 (0) 20 7786 5070 or visit www.realtick.com.

*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

Contact: +212-679-9000, +44 20 7786 5070

    

Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NITE) is a leading financial services firm that provides electronic and voice access to global capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side, sell-side and corporate clients.

Knight’s Global Markets business provides electronic and voice market access and trade execution services - our hybrid market model - in more than 19,000 U.S. equities and a large number of international securities, fixed income, futures, options and foreign exchange.

Knight trades on average 4 billion in U.S. shares a day offering natural liquidity while providing unmatched flexibility in electronic trade execution with Knight Direct EMSTM, our broker-neutral multiple-asset class trading platform, EdgeTrade, our industry-leading algorithmic strategies, Knight Match, our anonymous dark pool with access to Knight’s unique liquidity made of institutional, retail and algorithmic order flow, and Knight Link™, your access to the firm’s deep pool of off-exchange liquidity.

    

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world. Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading provides clients with the necessary tools to manage their trades from start to finish, from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis. Clients access our products via REdIPlus®, our top-ranked EMS platform, or via FIX. Customers can seek liquidity using our suite of multi-asset algorithms, route to optimal destinations using our SIGMA smart router, and take advantage of non-displayed liquidity through our SIGMA and SIGMA X non-displayed liquidity suite. Along with providing clients access to global equity markets, we also offer FX, Futures, and options across North America, Europe, and Asia.

    

UBS is a global firm, providing services to private, corporate and institutional clients through its wealth management and Swiss banking businesses alongside its global expertise in investment banking and asset management. In Switzerland, uBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. uBS is present in all major financial centers and has offices in over 50 countries. It employs more than 70,000 people around the world. UBS direct Execution is the firm’s global institutional electronic trading business. direct Execution offers ultra-low latency direct Market Access (dMA), a suite of award-winning advanced Algorithmic Trading strategies, a state-of-the-art analytics platform -- offering Real-Time TCA - called uBS Fusion, and a multi-asset international execution management system called uBS Pinpoint.

    

ICAP Equities, the global agency broker, provides independent, non-conflicted research and customised execution methods to suit individual clients. ICAP Equities undertakes agency orders on behalf of institutional and governmental asset managers in the world’s equity markets, with expertise covering equities, high yield, convertible bonds, derivatives and foreign exchange. ICAP Equities has a presence in ten locations in eight countries around the world. ICAP Equities is wholly owned by ICAP plc, a FTSE 100 company and the world’s largest inter-dealer broker. For more information go to www.icapequities.com

    

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. With offices in more than 40 countries and territories, the combined company serves corporate and institutional clients in 150 countries worldwide.

Our equity markets professionals provide a full range of equity and equity-linked sales and trading services, including sophisticated portfolio analytics and electronic trading. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Hansmann, Managing Director. yvonne.hansmann@baml.com or +44 (0) 20 7996 5117; www.bankofamerica.com

    

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