ASX Ltd. : ASX welcomes FFastFill

ASX welcomes FFastFill to ASX's New Data Centre Co-Locating its SaaS Infrastructure in the Australian Liquidity Centre

Sydney, January 25, 2012 - The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), the leading securities exchange in Australia, and FFastFill PLC, a leader in providing Software as a Service (SaaS) to the global financial marketplace, today announced that FFastFill will be adding its globally renowned SaaS infrastructure and services within ASX's new data and co-location centre - the ASX Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC). This new service will become operational on 20 February 2012.

The ALC is a purpose-built, state-of the-art data centre designed to meet the demands of ASX participants and service providers for the lowest latency access to ASX execution and information services. The ALC will allow ASX to significantly extend the availability of hosting services to ASX participants, vendors and the broader financial market community.
By having its SaaS infrastructure within the ALC, FFastFill will be able to provide domestic and international trading participants with the lowest latency connection to the Australian Futures Market.
David Raper, ASX General Manager Trade Execution and Information Services, said: "ASX is pleased to welcome FFastFill into the expanding financial market community in the ALC. The high quality SaaS technology provided by FFastFill creates business opportunities and synergies for all members of the ALC community."
Ian Le Noury, FFastFill Director of Business Development and Customer Management Asia Pacific, said: "The ASX ALC in conjunction with FFastFill's enhanced SaaS technology will provide superior execution for our global trading community through the low latency setup. This setup will allow traders to reduce latency, no matter where they are located within the FFastFill global infrastructure, and enable traders to make the most of our new spreading
technology, SpreadIntelligence, and FFastFill's enhanced order release mechanisms."
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About ASX

ASX Limited is the listed holding company for a number of licensed operating subsidiaries, together forming the ASX Group (ASX), which offers a range of market services linked by a common purpose: to provide core financial markets services and infrastructure to meet the needs of a wide range of financial markets stakeholders, and for a globally competitive and vibrant Australian economy. ASX is a multi-asset class, vertically integrated exchange group, ranked one of the world's top-10 largest by market capitalisation. Its activities span primary and secondary market services, central counterparty risk transfer, and transaction settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets. ASX functions as a market operator, clearing house, payments system facilitator and central securities depository. It also oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia's listed companies and helps to educate retail investors. More
information on ASX can be found at: www.asxgroup.com.au.

About FFastFill

FFastFill is the leading provider of Software as a Service to the global derivatives community using 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 as part of an integrated, yet modular system architecture. FFastFill is traded on London's AIM (AIM: FFA). More
information on FFastFill can be found at: www.ffastfill.com.
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