Exegy Unveils MarketDataPeaks.com, First Tool to Track Comprehensive Market Data Rates


ST. LOUIS, September 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Exegy, Inc., the innovator behind the Exegy Ticker Plant 
(http://www.exegy.com/tickerplant), unveiled today the first public website
that tracks real-time market data rates every second of every trading day.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070316/NYF045-LOGO)

Called MarketDataPeaks.com (http://www.MarketDataPeaks.com), the new site
provides a minute-by-minute account of the aggregated volume of market data
messages across major North American exchanges. The site highlights the peaks
from the current day as well as historic peaks.

"This site is designed to provide unique information on peaks in market
data to the financial community -- trading firms, exchanges and regulators,"
says Jeff Wells, V.P., Product Management at Exegy. "It will help executives
stay on top of market data issues and plan for the future."

The historic data will be captured and included in the Financial
Information Forum's capacity statistics as part of the organization's
collaborative efforts to address issues that impact financial technology
operations and development in light of rapid changes occurring in the
marketplace.

"We look forward to giving our members insight into market data peaks
based on Exegy's aggregated feed data," says Manisha Kimmel, Executive
Director of FIF. "Including this unique data as part of the FIF Market Data
Capacity Working Group discussions will allow us to further assist our
members in planning and provisioning for market data growth."

All data are processed and updated through a single Exegy Ticker Plant in
a New York City colocation facility managed by Xasax Corporation. Xasax is a
Vendor of Record and Service Bureau, providing end-to-end trading system
infrastructure for smaller hedge funds, proprietary trading desks, and
financial service providers.

MarketDataPeaks.com features the total number of messages that occur
simultaneously in any given second across all live data feeds including
NYSE/SIAC, NASDAQ, OPRA, ARCA, BATS and Direct Edge, both Level 1 and 2. The
graph displays the highest one-second peak that occurs in each minute. The
graph on the site's home page automatically updates every minute.

MarketDataPeaks.com is co-sponsored by Exegy, Xasax and the Financial
Information Forum.

About Exegy, Inc.:

Exegy provides ultra-high performance hardware-accelerated computing
appliances (http://www.exegy.com/tickerplant) that efficiently process and
enrich market data for the world's leading financial organizations. Exegy's
unique market data products respond to financial organizations' growing
demands for low latency, reduced cost of ownership and flexibility. Exegy's
products are compatible with leading operating systems and interconnects. For
more information, please visit http://www.exegy.com.

About Xasax Corporation:

Xasax Corporation provides an ultra-low-latency financial network called
the Xasax Financial Backbone (XFB). This XFB encompasses the majority of the
available liquidity in the US. Xasax services include proximity hosting /
co-location; raw and consolidated market data; order routing and execution
management systems; entitlement solutions, compliance / risk management, and
data warehousing, as both Vendor of Record and Service Bureau to the
exchanges. This infrastructure facilitates high-frequency traders, hedge
funds, and financial service providers.

For more information, please visit http://www.xasax.com.

About the Financial Information Forum:

Founded in 1996, the Financial Information Forum (FIF) addresses the
issues that impact financial technology operations and development in light
of rapid changes occurring in the marketplace. From real-time decision
support through securities processing. FIF provides a collaborative
environment for subscribers to benefit from technology, regulatory, and
market innovations. Financial institutions, vendors, and exchanges are
encouraged to join the Financial Information Forum, which serves as a focal
point for coordination and communication on behalf of the industry.

For more information, please visit http://www.fif.com.

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

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