TFS Brokers First-Ever Swiss Property Swap


LONDON, September 27 /PRNewswire/ --

Tradition Financial Services (TFS), one of the world's largest brokers of
financial products and subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere Tradition (CFT),
announced today it brokered the first Swiss IPD property swap from its London
office. The trade matures in December 2011 and was based on the Swiss IPD All
Property index. The counterparts, ABN AMRO, a pioneer in the development of
property derivatives, and Zurcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), a leading Zurich bank
that launched residential property derivatives in 2006, wrote the swap. Both
banks and TFS recognise that the availability of European index swaps will
further enhance interest and liquidity in the property derivatives market.

TFS is a fully active commercial and residential property derivative
broker in both New York and London.

About TFS

With offices worldwide, the Company covers currency options, equity and
property derivatives, freight, precious metals, energy and pulp & paper
markets. TFS Energy brokers a full spectrum of OTC energy and energy-related
physical and derivative products, including electricity, natural gas, crude
oil and refined products, coal, environmental products and weather
derivatives, and exchange-traded futures and options. In the 2007 Energy
Risk/Risk's Commodity Rankings, TFS won 15 1st places. In Risk's Interdealer
Rankings 2007, TFS took three first positions in equity derivatives and
TFS-ICAP ranked 1st in seven out of 11 currency options categories. TFS
Energy is proud to be awarded 'The Broker of the Year - Asia' by Energy Risk
in 2007. In FX Week's Best Bank Awards 2006, TFS-ICAP won best broker for
currency options. In 2006, TFS was awarded "Energy Broker of the Year" by
Commodities Now for the second successive year. TFS is a subsidiary of
Compagnie Financiere Tradition (CFT), one of the world's top three
interdealer brokers in financial and commodity-related products with a
presence in 24 countries and 2,200 employees. CFT is listed on the Swiss
Exchange (Symbol: CFT). For further information, please visit
www.tfsbrokers.com.

Web site: http://www.tfsbrokers.com

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