The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are conferred on British businesses which have made an outstanding or continuous achievement in international trade resulting in substantial growth in overseas earnings and in commercial success, sustained over not less than three years, to levels which are outstanding for the goods or services concerned and for the size of the company's operations.
LIFFE's Chief Executive, Hugh Freedberg said: "Each day more money is entrusted to LIFFE's technology than to any other electronic exchange. Today there are over 500 sites around the world linked to LIFFE CONNECT™, LIFFE's trading system, 60% of which are located outside the UK. This official recognition is music to the ears of all those who have worked so hard in developing LIFFE CONNECT™, which has been central to the transformation of LIFFE over the past three years."
