NYSE Euronext Completes Acquisition of Wombat Financial Software

March 07, 2008

NYSE Euronext Completes Acquisition of Wombat Financial Software
Broadens NYSE Euronext’s Global Customer Base and Commercial Technology Offerings

Launches NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)

NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced the closing of its $200 million acquisition of Wombat Financial Software (Wombat), the technology innovator and world leader in market data management solutions, as previously announced on January 14, 2008. Wombat will join TransactTools as part of the newly formed NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions division.

“On behalf of all my colleagues, we welcome the Wombat team to the NYSE Euronext family,” said Duncan L. Niederauer, CEO, NYSE Euronext. “Wombat, together with TransactTools, positions NYSE Euronext as a global leader in providing integrated commercial technology solutions for financial services firms and other markets. This is a rapidly growing sector of our business, and we look forward to providing our customer base with a comprehensive array of commercial technology solutions that include new connectivity tools, smart order routing, data management and direct market access.”

NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions will provide seamless high performance trading across asset classes, global geographies and time zones and a common end-to-end platform for accessing liquidity in any market. We combine the highest-performing enterprise software for financial connectivity (TransactTools) along with market-leading data management and distribution (Wombat), and the network and facilities infrastructure of the world’s leading markets (SFTI).

Wombat, which was founded in 1997 and has offices in the U.S., U.K. and Japan, offers a high speed market data and messaging platform with direct connection to markets that facilitates large volume, low latency data management and integration.

Today’s NYSE Opening BellSM celebrated the completion of the transaction and the introduction of Wombat Financial Software as part of NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions.



About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) operates the world’s leading and most liquid exchange group, and seeks to provide the highest levels of quality, customer choice and innovation. Its family of exchanges, located in six countries, include the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest cash equities market; Euronext, the Eurozone's largest cash equities market; Liffe, Europe's leading derivatives exchange by value of trading; and NYSE Arca Options, one of the fastest growing U.S. options trading platforms. NYSE Euronext offers a diverse array of financial products and services for issuers, investors and financial institutions in cash equities, options and derivatives, ETFs, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions. NYSE Euronext's nearly 4,000 listed companies represent a combined $30.5 trillion/€20.9 trillion in total global market capitalization (as of Dec. 31, 2007), more than four times that of any other exchange group. NYSE Euronext's equity exchanges transact an average daily trading value of approximately $141 billion/€103 billion (as of Dec. 31, 2007), which represents more than one-third of the world's cash equities trading. NYSE Euronext is part of the S&P 500 index and the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index. For more information, please visit www.nyx.com.