OMX extends exchange technologies offering with SMARTS market surveillance solutions

OMX, the leading expert in the exchange industry, and Smarts Group (SMARTS),
the world leader in real-time market surveillance, have formed a sales and
development partnership for providing SMARTS' market surveillance solutions to
OMX's customers. 

Under the agreement SMARTS' market surveillance solutions will be available as
part of OMX's exchange technologies offering. The solutions enable exchanges
and regulators to handle market surveillance, market supervision, compliance
and other regulatory aspects in real-time. 

OMX and SMARTS will also cooperate to develop a single connectivity solution
between SMARTS and OMX technologies. This ensures fast and secure systems
interaction and enables delivery of fully integrated trading and surveillance
platforms. The solution will be part of GENIUM, the new technologies for
trading, post trade and information services from OMX. 

“In a position where exchanges all over the world are experiencing a rapid
growth of the amount of trades, the demand for efficient and fast systems for
market surveillance is more critical than ever. By combining our respective
strengths we will be able to offer market leading solutions that enables both
exchanges and regulators to be one step ahead of the development,” says Anders
Fridlund, Head of Products, Market Technology, OMX. 

“We are delighted with the decision of OMX to extend their partnership with
Smarts Group and commitment to the SMARTS product. The initiative ensures easy
access for any existing or prospective OMX customer to our SMARTS integrity
platform. The single connectivity solution between SMARTS and OMX platforms
helps reduce system implementation times and keeps down maintenance costs.
Overall, this is an exciting prospect which will further strengthen both OMX's
and SMARTS' presence in the market by offering leading solutions to our ever
increasing joint customer base,” says Magnus Almqvist, General Manager for
Smarts Group in Europe. 

Market surveillance solutions from SMARTS are today deployed in over 30
national exchanges and regulators. Many of OMX existing customers, and OMX
Nordic Exchange, are already using the market surveillance solution from
SMARTS. The companies are also collaborating on the delivery of market
surveillance solutions for the Plus Markets Group and the Saudi Stock Exchange,
Tadawul. 
For more information, please contact:
Heidi Wendt, OMX	+46 8 405 72 93
Audris Siow, Smarts Group	 + 44 207 847 4034

About OMX | OMX is a leading expert in the exchange industry. The OMX Nordic
Exchange comprises over 800 companies including its alternative market First
North. OMX provides technology to over 60 exchanges, clearing organizations and
central securities depositories in over 50 countries. The Nordic Exchange is
not a legal entity but describes the common offering from OMX exchanges in
Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. OMX is a
Nordic Large Cap company in the Financials sector on the OMX Nordic Exchange.
For more information, please visit www.omxgroup.com. 

About Smarts Group | Smarts Group is the global leader in real-time financial
market surveillance technology and services, dedicated to delivering market
integrity through efficient and proven systems solutions and services to the
financial community. Smarts Group cater to all supervision, surveillance and
regulatory aspects of the securities business value chain - providing business
critical trading surveillance and operational control systems in over 30
national exchanges and regulators and more than 50 member firms (through
Capital Markets Surveillance Services Pty Ltd) across 21 countries, playing
integral advisory roles in setting international surveillance and compliance
standards, and educating and developing the next generation of people and
platforms for international cross-market integrity.