FFastFill plc - 2nd February, 2007
FFastFill Signs RBC Capital Markets for its CME FX on Reuters Application Service

LONDON AND CHICAGO, Feb. 2, 2007 – FastFill announced today the signing of RBC Capital Markets to go “live” on its CME FX on Reuters Application Service. This service gives Reuters Dealing 3000 users direct access to the CME's foreign exchange (FX) futures and options and enhances the ability to seamlessly trade FX spot and futures products.

FFastFill was chosen by Reuters as the launch partner for this project in May 2004 and has been responsible for building and maintaining a trade order routing service that enables traders using Reuters Dealing 3000 to also execute the CME's FX futures and options contracts.

FFastFill has signed nine major institutions for this service. To take advantage of this foreign exchange market opportunity, these CME clearing members not only support their internal trading teams but also offer a service to non-clearing member firms that use the Reuters Dealing 3000 platform. FFastFill's Application Services Provider (ASP) offers participants easy implementation, efficiency and flexibility, allowing firms to increase their trading capabilities.

FFastFill's Executive Chairman and CEO Keith Todd said: "FFastFill is delighted that it has been selected by RBC Capital Markets to deliver the CME FX on Reuters Application Service. This is the first project we have undertaken with RBC Capital Markets, and we look forward to a close working relationship."

Todd continued: "This is another important milestone for FFastFill as we have demonstrated the benefits of our application services approach and our ability to deliver an innovative robust service for the foreign exchange community. We look forward to continue working with Reuters, CME and the clearing community on developing this project further and spreading its use throughout the global FX community."

About FFastFill
FFastFill is the leading provider of application services to the global derivatives community. FFastFill's services and solutions use the latest developments in technology to automate trade flow processes across a firm's front, middle and back offices. FFastFill's solutions encompass electronic order routing, clearing, risk management and back office reporting as part of an integrated, yet modular system architecture. FFastFill's application services provide institutions with cost savings in their administrative and IT departments and significantly reduce or eliminate the investment costs associated with maintaining their own technology infrastructure. All of FFastFill's services are delivered against a contracted Service Level Agreement (SLA), which can be tailored to an institution's business requirements. This quality of delivered service has been enabled through the deployment of a uniquely engineered and totally managed software and technology infrastructure.

About CME FX
CME offers the world's largest regulated FX trading complex, providing users with liquid, transparent markets, guaranteed execution and central counterparty clearing risk management on 41 individual FX futures and 31 options on futures products.   For the month of December 2006, CME FX products had the highest volume month ever, with average daily volume of 621,000 contracts, up 45 percent compared with December 2005.  Average daily notional value of FX volume during December 2006 was $77 billion.   On Friday, December 8, 2006 , CME experienced record FX trading volume of 1,268,883 futures and options contracts, reflecting record notional value of $157.8 billion. Last year, over 114 million FX contracts with a notional value of over $13.8 trillion traded at CME. 

Visit www.cme.com/fx for more information.

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