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Aespen Futures Starts As A Trading Member Of Helsinki Exchanges

Date 13/02/2003

Aespen Futures B.V. will start as a trading member of Helsinki Exchanges on 17 February 2003. Aespen Futures will trade in the HETI trading system from Amsterdam.

Aespen Brokerage (Aespen Futures B.V.) is one of the leading providers of institutional brokerage services on Eurex and Euronext. It has main offices in Amsterdam and London and the team of brokers mediates in options, futures and shares on the Dutch, German, English, French and Finnish markets.

HEX operates the stock exchange and the central securities depository in Finland, Estonia and Latvia, and provides market parties with reliable services of a high quality. HEX has six business units: Trading, Settlement and Depository, Issuer Services, Securities Services, Information Solutions, and Baltic Operations.

Including Aespen Futures, Helsinki Exchanges now has 44 Cash Market Trading Members. Of them 27 trade from abroad.