LONDON, September 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Prestigious Industry Recognition Celebrates Ongoing Commitment to 
Innovative Electronic Trading Solutions for the Buy-Side

Portware, an independent provider of global, multi-asset trading
solutions, last night won the award for Best Electronic Trading System:
Buy-Side at the fifth annual Financial News Awards for Excellence in IT
Europe 2007.

Judged by a distinguished panel of independent analysts and industry
experts, the award recognises Portware's success in delivering
broker-neutral, flexible and highly-functional electronic trading systems to
the largest European buy-side institutions.

The award criteria focused on product innovation, creativity and success
in financial IT. Of the five short listed electronic trading system
candidates (Charles River Development, Latent Zero, Portware, Reuters and
Liquidnet) Portware was voted the best overall system.

Eric Goldberg, chief executive officer, Portware accepted the accolade at
last night's awards ceremony in London. Commenting on the award he says:
"This award is a testament to our ongoing commitment to develop an electronic
trading system that provides our clients with a wealth of trade workflow
applications and benefits across single stock, portfolio and algorithmic
trading strategies."

Stuart Adams, managing director EMEA, Portware adds: "This award comes at
a time when our business in Europe is experiencing strong growth as clients
embrace our technology. Portware offers a robust and scaleable solution for
the changing regulatory and market landscape."

Financial News, a DowJones company, host these awards annually - for
further information about the fifth annual Financial News Awards for
Excellence in IT Europe 2007 visit http://www.efinancialnews.com

About Portware

http://www.portware.com

Portware LLC is a leading independent provider of global,
broker-neutral, multi-asset, trading systems. Portware's centralised trading
environment has a flexible framework and offers a full range of components
for ready-to-trade systems and customisable, enterprise solutions. Portware
enables buy- and sell-side clients to create and modify trading strategies
and algorithms and supports FX, single order, portfolio, program, pairs and
index trading. Portware provides advanced tools for TCA, risk management,
real-time reporting, algorithms and analytics. With its open architecture
Portware's users are able to implement solutions that meet their individual
trading requirements and easily adapt to the rapidly evolving and
increasingly regulated global marketplace. Since its launch in 2000, Portware
systems have been implemented at more than 100 firms worldwide, including
hedge funds, asset management firms and sell-side program trading desks.

Press enquiries to:

    Nicolle Farthing/Nicki Ferguson, Cre8 Results Limited
    Email: portware@cre8results.com
    Tel: +44-(0)20-7734-9199