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NYSE Euronext Selects Smarts Group For Real-Time Market Surveillance System

Date 15/09/2008

Smarts Group, the world leader in real-time market surveillance and operational control for exchanges, regulators and brokers, is pleased to announce an agreement to supply NYSE Euronext (NYX) with its next generation market control and supervision platform in order to support NYX’s four European cash markets in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon.

By using the market leading SMARTS Market Integrity Platform, NYX will be at the forefront of real time and T+1 surveillance and will use the system to ensure orderly operation of their cash markets. The platform, operated in Paris, is to be introduced in stages over the next 6 months and will be an integral part of NYX’s future technology roadmap.

Mr Magnus Almqvist, Head Global Client Management of Smarts Group said: “The agreement with NYSE Euronext represents a very important milestone in the development and deployment of the SMARTS Market Integrity Platform worldwide. Our goal is to build and share our technology with regulators and exchanges with the primary aim of enhancing market integrity across as well as within markets, and we are very pleased to welcome NYSE Euronext as our customer.”