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London, 13th May 2009 – Guotai Junan Securities (Guotai), one of the top five securities firms in China, has selected SunGard’s GL Stream order management solution to help manage the orders from its mainland China clients. SunGard’s GL Stream will also help Guotai to target new buy-side firms in China and overseas.

SunGard’s GL Stream will support Guotai’s traders in collecting direct market access (DMA) or non-direct market access orders from Chinese or international investors who want to invest on the Securities Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK). The solution will also help Guotai to manage orders sent to the SEHK, receive FIX orders and create new trading strategies.

Eric Lee, executive director of Guotai Junan Securities, commented: “With GL Stream, SunGard offers us a functionally-rich trading platform dedicated to trading in Hong Kong. It helps us to monitor all our trading activity and allows us to provide DMA connectivity and advanced execution services to our clients. SunGard’s GL Stream is a key component of our strategy to establish stronger connections with new and existing institutional clients.”

Franck Peltier, managing director of SunGard’s global trading business in Asia, added: “China’s buy-side firms are investing more and more in Hong Kong and foreign markets. Hong Kong brokers therefore have an increased need for order management systems. Guotai’s selection of SunGard validates our commitment to supporting sell-side and buy-side institutions in emerging economies reach their development objectives.”

About Guotai Junan Securities
Guotai Junan (Hong Kong) Limited deliver comprehensive and quality securities and financial services to clients, Guotai Junan is amongst the top five securities firms in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with a large capital base. Our major business include Securities Brokerage, Corporate Finance, Assets Management, Futures Brokerage and Securities Investment consultancy, etc.

With an insight in the national intelligence of the PRC and the financial market in Hong Kong, together with a team of experienced expertise, Guotai Junan (Hong Kong) Limited has established a solid foundation and is well known in the PRC and Hong Kong. The Company has comprehensive sales network and channels building on its excellent relationship with the institutions both in the PRC and around the world.

About SunGard’s GL Stream
The GL Stream suite provides a comprehensive response to the challenges of global electronic trading. GL Stream ASP for Market Access is a fully managed and cost-effective solution for exchange connectivity, based on hosted and mutualized market gateways. GL Stream for Liquidity Management is a suite of capabilities for trading of instruments across multiple competing venues: exchanges, ECNs, MTFs, dark pools and in-house matching engines.

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, and GL Stream are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

For more information, please contact:
Toby West
SunGard Financial Systems
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8081 2426
toby.west@sungard.com

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Paris, 7 April 2009 – Investir, the French investment banking media group, has become the 50th French customer to select SunGard’s MarketMap market data, analysis and information services solution in the past 12 months. MarketMap will provide Investir’s journalists with data from more than 160 global exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) sources, giving them global multi-asset data coverage.

SunGard’s MarketMap offers services to a diverse range of users, including traders, fund managers, analysts, sales staff and trading floor managers. The solution will help Investir’s journalists to provide comprehensive investment advice to its readers. The solution’s ease-of-use, rapid deployment model and competitive pricing have all helped to drive a rapid growth in SunGard’s French market data customer base.

Valérie de Marnhac, managing director of Investir publications, said: “We wanted to rationalise our spending on financial information services while benefiting from access to a high-performance visualisation and analysis tool. When we tested MarketMap, our staff were convinced by its quality, data coverage and ease-of-use.”

Yassine Brahim, president of SunGard’s global trading business, added: “We are very pleased by MarketMap’s strong start in France, a mature market with strong competition. It reflects similar uptake in other Western European countries such as Belgium, Luxemburg and Italy, and demonstrates an increasing desire by financial institutions for more controlled market data costs. MarketMap helps customers to monitor their spending on market data and to match their subscriptions to their actual use in real-time. This makes for optimal cost management.”

About Investir
The Investir group offers market analysis and investment advice for equity investors. Prices are tracked and analysed in real time on the www.investir.fr website, whether they be securities (shares, bonds, UCITS, investment funds, warrants, trackers, certificates) or market indices (CAC 40, NASDAQ, Nikkei). In addition to its investment advice, Investir also offers information and data on assets listed on Nyse Euronext Paris and other main exchanges.

About SunGard’s MarketMap
MarketMap provides the buy side and the sell side with financial market data, news, analysis, financial calculators and improved decision tools.
Deployed in seconds, the MarketMap information terminal offers intuitive ease-of-use and is optimized for rapid navigation between multiple market views or workspaces.
It is supplied with SMART (Subscriber Management And Reporting Tool), an integrated permissioning system, which allows users to monitor and control data costs in real-time.

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 472 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, and MarketMap are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

For more information, please contact:
Toby West, PR & Communications Manager
SunGard Financial Systems
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8081 2426
Email: toby.west@sungard.com

GL TRADE is now fully part of SunGard. We have joined the SunGard Financial Systems division as a new segment called Global Trading

With annual revenue of $5 billion, SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.

SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. These solutions meet a multitude of needs, but support a common aim: to help drive our customers’ unique business strategies—whether that means increasing efficiency, improving customer service, complying with regulations, or capturing growth opportunities through innovation.

To discover our offering, visit our web site www.sungard.com/globaltrading

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Since 1987, our objective has been to facilitate the work of players in financial markets. Starting with traded options, we began to include other types of financial instruments: equities, listed derivatives and OTC products.

We have also extended our product coverage beyond front office trading (including order management and data management) to middle and back office with clearing and settlement.

The geographical growth of the group was accompanied by the ongoing development of our proprietary order routing network to provide you with the performance and the local partnerships that you expect.

Since October 2008 we are a subsidiary of SunGard 

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In order to deliver high quality mission-critical trading solutions, GL TRADE has set up a matrix-type structure organized by business lines and regions.

The aim of GL TRADE business lines is to manage products from their design stage to their delivery on the market. Each business line is set up around a centralised R&D unit responsible for the technical architecture and development of its core business products. The business lines can also rely on two near-shore development centers, one in Tunis and the other in Belgrade. In total, GL TRADE employs over 550 people in R&D.

GL TRADE operates in more than 50 countries. The Regions are responsible for the deployment and support of Group solutions. Our Regions adapt our software to the technical specifications, regulatory requirements and cultural characteristics of the markets concerned.

With annual revenues of 203 M€, GL TRADE is a global financial software solutions company, operating in over 50 countries and serving 1,600 clients including the world’s 20 largest financial institutions.

We are the leading provider of multi-asset front-to-back solutions, connectivity and information services.

Our mission is to deliver trading solutions that ensure your success in trading all of asset classes from Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives and Commodities to FX and Money Markets.

GL TRADE is a subsidiary of SunGard.

GL TRADE employs over 1,400 people in more than 26 offices worldwide. Our  presence in more than 20 countries allows us to provide you with local and customized support and services.

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