Parex Banka extends its membership of the Nordic Exchange


As of Monday, April 2, Parex Banka will become the first Baltic member of the
Stockholm and Helsinki Stock Exchanges. They will thereby gain trading access
to the Swedish and Finnish equity markets. 

Parex Banka is already a member of the Nordic Exchange in Tallinn, Riga and
Vilnius. The membership will be expanded further to include trading in
Copenhagen shortly. 

”We are very happy to welcome Parex Banka as a member of OMX Nordic Exchange in
Stockholm and Helsinki. The expanded membership gives Parex Banka an excellent
opportunity to offer their customers easy and direct access to trading on the
Nordic Exchange”, says Jukka Ruuska, President OMX Nordic Exchange. 

Parex Banka offers integrated client services including lending, payment card
services, leasing, asset management and securities brokerage. Parex Banka was
founded in 1992 as one of the first commercial banks in Latvia. 

The Nordic Exchange has 159 members in 13 different countries. 

For more information, please contact
Anders Rubensson, OMX Nordic Exchange			+ 46 8 405 63 03


About OMX | OMX is a leading expert in the exchange industry. Through the
Nordic Exchange, OMX offers access to approximately 80 percent of the Nordic
and Baltic securities market. The Nordic Exchange is a term used for marketing
purposes and is not a legal entity. It describes the common offering from the
Helsinki Stock Exchange, Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Stockholm Stock Exchange,
Iceland Stock Exchange, Tallinn Stock Exchange, Riga Stock Exchange and Vilnius
Stock Exchange. OMX integrated technology solutions cross the transaction chain
enabling efficient securities transactions for over 60 exchange organizations
in more than 50 countries. OMX is a Nordic Large Cap company in the Financial
sector on the OMX Nordic Exchange. For more information, please visit
www.omxgroup.com.

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