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Reuters at the World ACI Congress in Manila

May 22, 2006 at 12:00 AM EDT

At this year's World ACI Congress taking place in Manila from 25 – 27 May, Reuters will be exhibiting its expanded electronic trading portfolio aimed at helping both sell and buy-side participants take advantage of the continued interest in the world's most actively traded asset class. In addition, Reuters and CME will be discussing their new proposed joint venture – FX MarketSpace – which aims to create the world's first centrally-cleared FX marketplace.

Reuters will be showcasing its latest electronic trading capabilities which comprises:

• Reuters Trading for Foreign Exchange which brings financial market professionals real-time, executable streaming FX prices and analytics via a single sign on from the Reuters desktop
• CME FX on Reuters which brings sell and buy side participants access to CME FX futures on Reuters Dealing 3000 desktops
• Reuters Trading for Fixed Income which allows asset managers, hedge funds and corporate treasurers to trade more than 15,000 cash fixed income securities, such as domestic and international corporate and government bonds, across 31 currencies in 30 countries.
• In addition, Reuter will showcase its premier FX & money markets trading system, Reuters Dealing 3000 which is used by nearly 18,000 FX and money market professionals across 4,000 organizations to trade FX spot, forwards, options, futures, in addition to interest rate and overnight index swaps and commodities such as bullion.

In addition, the company will be exhibiting:
• Reuters Matching for FX Options provides cost-effective brokerage and the straight through processing of FX Options. This relatively new service has been experiencing record months this year in terms of volumes.
• Reuters Electronic Trading for Automated Dealing featuring improved trade rate management, one-click trading tools and integrated limit order management.
• Reuters Kondor Global Risk, the company's enterprise wide risk management solution. Kondor+ the real-time position keeping system and Kondor Trade Processing the back office system for processing and cash management requirements.
• And of course, Reuters award winning news and information from its Reuters 3000 Xtra desktop and flagship treasury platform Reuters Dealing 3000 for a broad range of spot and forwards trading

In keeping with tradition, Reuters will host a breakfast for the ACI Executive Committee on Wednesday, 24 May. Reuters and the ACI will co-host a golf event on the morning of Thursday, 25 May.

Robin Poynder, Global Head of FX Customer Propositions at Reuters, will be speaking at a session entitled “Evolution of Currencies: Fixed to Floating; National to Regional” on Saturday, 27 May at 9.00am.

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For more information or to set up an interview, contact:

Yvonne Diaz Tel: +44 20 7542 2615
Covering Treasury and Fixed Income Mobile: +44 7990 560 615
yvonne.diaz@reuters.com

Steve Clarke Tel: +44 20 7542 6865
Covering Risk and Trade Management
steve.clarke@reuters.com

Liam Hwee Tay Tel: +65 6870 3028
Covering the Asia region
liam.tay@reuters.com

 

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