ACTIV Financial Named Best Data Provider to the Sell-Side at Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013

New York, NY – April 24, 2013 – ACTIV Financial, a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions, today announced that the firm was named “Best Data Provider to the Sell-Side”at the Sell-Side Technology Awards. In its inaugural year, theSell-Side Technology Awards recognize the leading technologies and vendors through an auditable and transparent methodology and judging panel comprised of analysts, CIOs and Watersstaff members.

In a market characterized by growing market data volumes and sources, global trading strategies, andcontinued cost pressures, firms are increasingly looking to access more markets at lower costs. ACTIV’s global market data coverage and light-weight delivery infrastructure provides firms with a best-of-breed solution that offers comprehensive, high-quality data ata low cost.

“We are delighted to have been recognized by Sell-Side Technology as data provider to the sell-side,” said Frank Piasecki, president of ACTIV. “We remain committed to providing our clients with a high quality, comprehensive market data and infrastructure solution that enables them tomanage growing data volumes in an operationally efficient and cost effective way.”

A truly global provider with distribution across the Americas, Europe and Asia, ACTIV added more than 15 feeds across asset classes in 2012. ACTIVinvests heavily in technology, and is constantly upgrading and expanding its range of services. The firm is currently working to deploy a ticker plant at the new co-location facility of Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), which will provide physical access to TSE FLEX Standard, FLEXFull, FLEX Full (WB) and Tdex+ feeds in raw or normalized outputs using ACTIV’s hardware-accelerated ticker plants.

ACTIV also announced it is extending its North American coverage of ACTIV TradeDeck, a fully managed solution providing an ultra low latency pre-trade risk gateway, to all Canadian exchanges for equities, options and futures to prepare for regulations around pre-trade risk checks.

###

About ACTIV

ACTIV is a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions. ACTIV offers neutral, managed services for buy and sell-side firms and technology providers seeking a complete market data solution that encompasses both global content management and data delivery across the enterprise. With coverage spanning more than 150 equity and derivatives exchanges around the world, ACTIV is the only truly end-to-end, independent market data utility in the industry. Founded in 2002 by market data specialists, the firm is privately owned and has offices in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London. More information can be found at

Contact:

Shaina Mardinly

Articulate Communications

(212) 255-0080 x 15