PARIS (TradeTech), April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Many new Features and Enhancements to Award-Winning OMS

- New Trading Tools

- Integration of Actionable Data Visualisation Tools

- Better Support for Commission Sharing Agreements

PARIS (TradeTech), April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Linedata Services (LIN:FP), the leader for investment
software, solutions and services, today announced that clients in both Europe
and North America have begun implementing the newly released Version 7 of its
award-winning LongView Trading order management system (OMS).

This significant release includes new and enhanced
functionality across all areas of the system, including trading, portfolio
management, compliance and enhanced support for the alternative investment
markets. Gavin Little-Gill, Executive Vice President for Linedata Services
North America, commented, "Our clients include some of the most progressive
global asset management firms across the institutional and alternative
markets. This release is aimed at meeting their needs for enhanced trading
tools and robust securities coverage, as well as compliance, audit and
reporting trails."

Enhancements include:

- Increased securities coverage with over 125 security types,
and full FpML (Financial products Markup Language) mapping to support the
increasingly demanding audit and compliance demands necessary to support
firms' derivatives trading needs

- Enhanced electronic trading functionality, with new tools,
improved workflows and throughput so that traders can act and react to
markets faster

- Greater hedge-fund specific functionality and tighter
integration with Beauchamp FundManager, the core of Linedata's alternative
investment solution suite

- New tools for compliance officers with an enhanced rule
builder, new formula builder, violation override facility and many more
features

- A recently launched Linedata Reporting application to
provide web based reporting for internal and external audit and reporting
requirements

This major new release also sees the debut of LongView Live -
a powerful graphically rich application that creates actionable visualisation
tools that enable traders to "see and act", in order to take advantage of
market opportunities. It includes groundbreaking venue distribution tools,
new controls, gauges and visuals, real-time market data within an integrated
snapshot view and intuitive commission management tools.

Gavin Little-Gill added, "This is a very exciting release for
us and our customers. We are constantly working to improve our systems to
stay ahead of our customers' requirements and provide them with the most
innovative, cutting edge software. The response from our clients has been
overwhelmingly positive and confirms that we're on track."

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Linedata Services

Linedata Services leads the financial-services technology
market, developing solutions and services to help the industry manage the
investment process. Linedata's asset management offering is a complete set of
best-of-breed software products, spanning front to back-office. Linedata's
solutions address the specific requirements of mutual and institutional
funds, alternative and hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers and
private wealth companies.

Linedata's products are available through traditional
deployment options, as well as through an ASP (Application Service Provider)
model, providing hosted hardware and software management. Linedata has 20
years' experience delivering ASP solutions.

The group recorded a turnover of EUR160.7 million in 2008.
Linedata Services is quoted on Euronext Paris Compartiment C. For more
information visit Linedata Services at http://www.ldsam.com.

About LongView Trading Order Management System (OMS)

LongView Trading is Linedata Services' powerful, electronic,
global, multi-asset class OMS developed to support the needs of portfolio
managers, traders, compliance officers and operations personnel. The
comprehensive system provides portfolio modelling, electronic trading,
pre-trade compliance and unparalleled access to liquidity. Through numerous
partnerships and seamless integration, LongView offers customers access to
the liquidity sources of their choice. Unique technology and a commitment to
broker neutrality has won LongView ten of the top 25 global asset management
firms, and more than 150 clients worldwide. It has also won the loyalty of
all its clients, which named the platform Best Buy-Side OMS for 2008.