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Remium – New Member Of The Copenhagen Stock Exchange

Date 19/05/2005

Remium AB has been approved as a new member of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. From Monday May 23, 2005, Remium will have access to the equity market. Remium is a Swedish investment bank (“fondkommissionär”) with focus on small and midcap companies. Remium provides Equity Sales, Equity Research, Corporate Finance and Liquidity Providing (Market Making).

The number of remote member firms on the equity market now totals 17 out of a total of 42 member firms. The remote members’ market share has increased significantly in recent years, and has reached 28 percent in the first four months of this year.

Deputy President Hans-Ole Jochumsen says, ”It’s a great pleasure to welcome Remium as a member of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Remium has announced that they are going to act as market maker in several listed companies, and therefore we expect them to become a participant that will contribute towards an improvement in the liquidity of Danish shares.”

Filip Engelbert, CEO of Remium says, “By providing the most efficient Market Maker Service, Remium has, by far, become the largest provider of Market Maker services on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The membership of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange gives us the possibility to offer our highly competitive Market Maker service to companies listed there.”

The membership of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange will further widen Remium’s coverage of the Nordic equity markets and enhance the possibility to offer liquidity providing services to companies listed in the Nordic region. Remium is already a member of the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. With the membership of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange Remium improves its presence on OMX Exchanges being directly active on the three largest equity markets within the OMX Exchanges division.