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SFTI Adds The National Stock Exchange As A New Market Center – SFTI Connects To All NMS Markets

Date 16/05/2008

NYSE Euronext (NYX ) today announced that NYSE Euronext’s SFTI® network is now connected to the National Stock ExchangeSM(NSX®). Through the addition of NSX, SFTI now offers customers access to all U.S. exchanges for complete Reg-NMS compliance.

“We are pleased to further enhance the scope of our SFTI network to include the National Stock Exchange,” said Sam Johnson, Executive Vice President, NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions. “By connecting more firms to more markets than any other network, SFTI provides customers with the fastest, most reliable access to liquidity anywhere in the world.”

“The announcement of NSX connectivity with SFTI is a step forward in our continued commitment to make NSX easy to access for our customers,” said James Kearney, NSX Senior Vice President, Business Development and Client Relations. “Through this proven, low-latency linkage, NSX clients are able to access NSX BLADESM, our state-of-the-art trading platform, as well as our newly developed NSX multi-cast Depth of Book product, the addition of which now allows clients to choose the most convenient way to receive NSX market data - all for no charge.”

SFTI is the NYSE Euronext’s highly resilient, ultra low-latency communications backbone created for the financial industry in 2002. It offers connectivity to multiple exchanges, market centers and content services providers including all of the National Market System markets in the U.S and also connects to over 1,300 market participants. SFTI FIX provides open, standards-based access for data and trading. The OMS neutral FIX router enables customers to get to any destination through a single FIX connection.