FFastFill plc - 5th August, 2005
FFastFill and Trading Technologies agree partnership to provide X Trader as a service

FFastFill Plc ("FFastFill") and Trading Technologies International, Inc. ("TT") today announced a partnership agreement that allows FFastFill to deliver TT's X Trader software using FFastFill's high reliability application service. TT's X Trader incorporates their MD Trader technology and is used extensively within the global professional trading community. FFastFill delivers trading applications for the derivatives community as a service from its facilities in London and Chicago. This service is of exceptionally high quality since all elements of the infrastructure have been engineered to meet the exacting requirements of the trading community. This new service will be provided by integrating TT's X Trader front-end trading screen with FFastFill's multi-asset class global order book, exchange connectivity and other middle office software and providing both components or the complete system as a fully managed service.

Said Keith Todd, Executive Chairman and CEO, FFastFill, "I am delighted to be partnering with Trading Technologies to deliver their X Trader software as a service. This underlines our strategy and demonstrates the flexibility of our new generation service architecture to integrate best-of-breed functionality from a wide variety of suppliers into a single consistent service. This agreement will provide FFastFill with a uniquely competitive service for the professional trading community to add to the highly competitive offerings we already have for the broking market and, through our agreement with Reuters, for the Fx community."

Harris Brumfield, CEO of TT said, "X Trader is the software of choice for large sections of the professional trading community. I am delighted that we have been able to link up with FFastFill's high quality application service. We believe that this new offer can expand the market for X Trader to users who would like to use the functionality."

About FFastFill
FFastFill is the leading provider of application services to the global derivatives community. FFastFill services and solutions utilise the latest developments in technology to automate trade flow processes across a firm's front, middle and back offices. FFastFill solutions encompass electronic order routing, clearing, risk management and back office reporting as part of an integrated, yet modular system architecture. FFastFill 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 Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) develops high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, including the world's premier exchanges, money-center banks, proprietary traders, securities brokers, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), hedge funds and other trading institutions. The company's software and services provide direct access to the world's major derivatives exchanges. Headquartered in Chicago, Trading Technologies maintains a worldwide presence with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Sydney and Tokyo* (*opening Summer 2005). In 2004, Trading Technologies was named the best technology company to work for in Chicago by Chicago magazine and ranked third among all Chicago area employers.

For further information, please contact:

FFastFill plc - 020 7665 8900
Keith Todd, Executive Chairman

Rostron Parry
John Parry - 020 7490 8062

Hansard Communications
Andy Tan - 020 7245 1100

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