Reuters and Paladyne Alliance Grows to 40 Mutual Clients

NEW YORK and LONDON, January 30, 2008 – Reuters (LSEL RTR, Nasdaq: RTRSY) and Paladyne Systems, Inc., a leading solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, today announced the integration of Reuters DataScope Onsite with the PALADYNE™ suite of products. Reuters DataScope Onsite provides comprehensive pricing, factors, terms and conditions, corporate actions, cash flows, and analytical data on the universe of asset-backed securities including MBS, Agency Pools, Whole Loans, TBA Pools, and MBS derivative products such as CMO’s. This joint product offering is in response to an increased demand for comprehensive asset-backed data within the alternative investment industry.

Reuters has continued to actively market its product and data solutions to hedge funds and their service providers, and since announcing the relationship in mid 2006, Reuters and Paladyne are now servicing over forty new clients using the data as part of Paladyne’s fully-hosted ASP platform. This offering provides clients with access to data from both the Reuters DataScope Fixed Income bulk data feeds and the extensive fixed income detailed data from the Reuters DataScope Onsite product. Both Paladyne Security Master and Paladyne Price Master are fully integrated with Reuters DataScope bulk and Reuters DataScope Onsite feeds.

“We are very pleased to be working with Paladyne to further extend our reach into the hedge fund marketplace,” said Caroline O’Shaughnessy, Global Head of Indirect Channel, Enterprise, Reuters. “Paladyne has established itself as a leader in this industry and their ASP solution is ideally suited for delivering our bulk data feeds to large numbers of customers.”

“This relationship with Reuters has proven to be very successful over the past year,” said Sameer Shalaby, Chief Executive Officer, Paladyne Systems. “We continue to see consistent demand for comprehensive data within our product suite and the Reuters products have been received very well by both our clients and the industry.”

The PALADYNE suite is available either as a fully hosted solution or as an on-site local installation.

About About Reuters

Reuters (www.reuters.com), the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Through reuters.com and other digital properties, Reuters now also supplies its trusted content direct to individuals. Reuters drives decision making across the globe based on a reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. Reuters has 17,500 staff in 94 countries, including 2,400 editorial staff in 196 bureaux serving 131 countries. In 2006, Reuters revenues were £2.6 billion.

About Paladyne Systems

Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company, is the leading provider of next generation investment management solutions. Paladyne offers its integrated front-, middle- and back-office platform, known as the Paladyne Suite™, to hedge funds, asset managers, fund administrators and prime brokers. The modular Paladyne Suite™ includes order management, portfolio management, reference data management, data warehouse reporting and reconciliation and is complemented by the Paladyne Network™, which comprises a select group of preferred strategic partnerships with leading software and market data firms. The solution can be delivered onsite or via Paladyne's industry-leading application service provider solution, Paladyne ASP™. Paladyne was established in 2005 and now serves over 180 clients worldwide. The firm has approximately 165 employees, and is headquartered in New York, with regional offices in New Jersey, London, Russia and Hong Kong.

The Paladyne® Suite includes the following modules:

  • Paladyne Portfolio Master™ — provides electronic trading, order management and allocation, portfolio management, real-time P&L, and strategy-based performance tracking.
  • Paladyne Credit Master™ — provides loan processing and administration to fully support loan trading, analysis, reporting, and management.
  • Paladyne Analytics Master™ — provides portfolio analytics, data aggregation, and custom reporting tools.
  • Paladyne Security Master™ — provides a centralized terms and conditions repository and distribution engine with real-time updates and corporate action alerts.
  • Paladyne Price Master™ — provides automated collection, storage, and time series analysis of prices and market data from any third-party sources.

About Broadridge

Broadridge is a technology services company focused on global capital markets. Broadridge is the market leader enabling secure and accurate processing of information for communications and securities transactions among issuers, investors and financial intermediaries. Broadridge builds the infrastructure that underpins proxy services for over 90% of public companies and mutual funds in North America; processes more than $4 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day; and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.