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Tullett Prebon Information Announces Multi-Year Agreement with Chinese Data Vendor Shanghai Wind Information Co., Ltd.

    LONDON and SHANGHAI, April 9, 2008 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Tullett
Prebon Information, the leading global provider of financial market data,
and Shanghai Wind Information Co. ("Wind Info"), China's recognised premier
integrated service providers of financial data and software, announced a
multi-year agreement for the supply of interest rate, fixed income and
money and fx data to the Chinese market.

    Tullett Prebon Information will supply a range of global fx data in
addition to US Dollar and Chinese Renminbi denominated cross asset class
data to Wind Info. This high-quality, independent OTC information will be
made available to Wind Info's domestic Chinese client base via its WIND
Financial Terminal WFT.

    Wind's customers are mainly financial institutions such as fund
management firms, investment banks, QFII institutions, insurance companies
and securities firms etc. With 1200 institutional clients and more than
25,000 terminals, Wind is the recognised market leader in China's financial
information industry.

    Tullett Prebon Information works with financial institutions and
service providers including the major global and domestic data vendors for
the provision of independent OTC fixed income and derivative pricing. This
distribution agreement with Wind Info highlights Tullett Prebon
Information's on-going commitment to the Asia-Pacific financial markets and
is the latest in a series of similar agreements concluded in India, Korea,
Japan and Indonesia. Tullett Prebon Information is the data subsidiary of
Tullett Prebon PLC, the first foreign-owned inter-dealer broker to secure a
license to trade in China in October 2005.

    Frank Desmond, Head of Europe and Asia at Tullett Prebon Information,
said: "We are very pleased to be working with Wind Info and assisting them
in providing high quality, independent financial information to a
sophisticated institutional customer base. The Chinese market continues to
be a major focus for Tullett Prebon's information business and is a market
in which we will continue to invest."

    Mr. Roy Wang, CEO of Wind Information (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd, said: "We
are delighted that Wind and Tullett Prebon Information have set up this
business collaboration to target the growing Chinese financial information
service industry. We are confident that Tullett Prebon Information will
benefit from its cooperation with Wind and our proactive approach. Wind is
becoming an important partner to global leading market players, enabling
them to service their clients in China efficiently. For Wind, the
collaboration with Tullett Prebon Information is an important step as it
progresses its service strategy on a variety of premium products."

    Notes to Editors

    About Tullett Prebon Information ( http://www.TPInformation.com )

    Tullett Prebon Information Limited is the leading provider of real-time
price information from the wholesale inter-dealer brokered financial
markets. Tullett Prebon Information is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullett
Prebon PLC, a fully diversified inter-dealer broker with a leading presence
in global Fixed Income Securities, Money Markets, Capital Markets, Equities
and associated derivative products.

    Tullett Prebon Information's data is delivered via industry leading
information vendors and also via direct feeds to some of the world's
largest financial institutions. The information is relied upon by thousands
of market professionals around the globe moving billions of dollars of
assets daily for the purposes of trading, derivatives and FX pricing, risk
management and portfolio valuations.

    About Wind ( http://www.wind.com.cn/en/home.htm )

    As the leading financial data and financial software provider in China,
Wind Info is committed to providing its customers with integrated financial
data, application system and first-class after-sale service.

    Among its clients, 90% are domestic fund management firms, insurance
companies and securities firms etc. as well as more than 80% of China's
QFII institutions. A lot of Chinese and English media, research reports,
and academic essays often quote the data from Wind.


For further press information, please contact: Tullett Prebon Information Kate Ruck Keene Tel: +44-207-153-1530 Emial: Kate@mcomgroup.com Shanghai Wind Information Co., Ltd. Ning Wang Tel: +86-21-6888-2280 Email: nwang@wind.com.cn
SOURCE Tullett Prebon Information Limited




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  • http://www.TPInformation.com
  • http://www.wind.com.cn/en/home.htm
    CONTACT:
    Kate Ruck Keene of Tullett Prebon
    Information, +44-207-153- 1530, Kate@mcomgroup.com; Ning Wang of
    Shanghai Wind Information, +86-21-6888- 2280, nwang@wind.com.cn