Press releases 2005

Proquote, the London Stock Exchange’s market data and trading terminal business, has today launched its first global market data product, Proquote International, which provides extensive real-time and delayed data from over 100 markets and over the counter sources.

Proquote International gives institutional buyside firms and the broader financial community in-depth coverage of international equity, fixed income, currency, commodity and derivatives markets and indices. In addition to market data, users will also benefit from extensive pre-trade analytics and decision making tools.

Commenting on the launch of Proquote International, David Lester, Chief Information Officer of the London Stock Exchange, said:

“We have researched the market and seen there is a gap for Proquote to provide the mid tier market with a full service international market data product that is low cost and requires minimal IT infrastructure.”

He continued:

“Proquote International offers a lower total cost of ownership because less resource is required to administer, support and maintain the service.  Its market data management system is a unique tool, which provides accurate reporting and analysis of market data usage at an individual level.”

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In addition to extensive coverage of multiple asset classes, Proquote International will also offer the key features that Proquote provides. These include:

• News feeds from multiple sources including RNS, AFX, Dow Jones and user-defined news feeds

• Comprehensive pre-trade analytics functionality with the Proquote Clearview toolset included as standard

• In-depth company fundamentals including broker forecasts, directors’ dealings and accounts

• Intra-day charting, equity and index charting, including stock-to-index, stock-to-stock comparisons and multi-year historical price history

• Access to extensive data on UK funds

• A powerful cross asset search-engine with customisable views and powerful screen-building tools

Proquote International will be officially unveiled at Tradetech 2005 in Paris on Wednesday 27th April. For further information about the show please visit: www.tradetech2005.com

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For further information, please contact:
Anya Velzeboer    Richard Campbell, Rebecca Clark
London Stock Exchange    Capital MS&L   
Press Office +44 (0)20 7797 1315 +44 (0) 20 7307 5330
avelzeboer@londonstockexchange.com rebecca.clark@capitalmsl.com 

  
Notes to Editors:

About Proquote

The London Stock Exchange acquired Proquote in January 2003 and it is now run as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Exchange. It combines extensive market knowledge and modern technology to deliver live market information and trading functionality to standard desktop PCs or laptops with minimal infrastructure required at the customer site.

Proquote provides over 2,800 terminals to 175 corporate clients including Charles Stanley, Gerrards, Prudential Bache, Investec Henderson Crosthwaite and TD Waterhouse.

Since its launch, Proquote has won a number of industry awards, which include ‘Best Investor Innovation, Shares UK Equity Awards’ (2003) and ‘Best information Product, Systems in the City Awards’ (2004).

For more information about Proquote, please visit: www.proquote.net