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NGM Launches Nordic Derivatives Exchange

Date 10/10/2002

NGM is launching a new marketplace for trading in derivatives. The new marketplace is being launched under the name Nordic Derivatives Exchange (NDX). Handelsbanken Securities, the largest player on the Nordic market, is the first client to sign the framework agreement.

Ulf Cederin, Managing Director of NGM Holding
- "NGM and the systems supplier, Univits, have been working intensively with Handelsbanken Securities for some time in designing a framework which meets the needs of the derivatives market. In the prevailing market situation, it is necessary to have high flexibility and accessibility, and to provide a high degree of service to our members. This is the basis of the framework that we have created together with the largest player on this segment of the market, Handelsbanken Securities.

Björn Nordstrand,Chairman of the Board of Directors of Univits International AB
-"It is with great satisfaction that I am able to state that the close co-operation that has taken place between Handelsbanken, NGM, and Univits has now resulted in NGM being able to launch its new marketplace, NDX. With the upgrades that are now taking place, NGM is receiving an extremely advanced platform (Univits Tellus) for financial trading with support for almost all existing products and markets and in which special possibilities are opened up for various types of derivatives." The launching of the new NDX marketplace is commencing immediately and, should the market situation allow, listing will commence during the first quarter of 2003.