Tradepoint And The SWX Swiss Exchange Enter Exclusive Negotiations Relating To New Pan-European Initiative

TFN and SWX announce that the two exchanges have entered into a three month period of exclusive negotiations with a view to collaborating on a pan-European blue chip trading platform. These discussions have the full support of the Boards of Tradepoint and SWX as well as the Consortium of leading international brokerage and financial services firms, which has a 54% holding in Tradepoint. A further announcement will be made in due course.