LONDON, October 9, 2006 -- Asset Control, a leading provider of Centralized Data Management (CDM) solutions to the financial industry, today announced that Paris-based Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank has selected Asset Control's flagship product, AC Plus, as their centralized data management platform for reference data, corporate actions and pricing data across its financial and commodities markets. The global solution will be implemented in a phased approach, beginning with centralizing the firm's market data.

"In an extensive vendor comparison, part of our criteria for selecting a data management solution was to find a vendor that could offer a flexible, robust solution capable of centralizing Calyon's data for the risk, middle and back office, globally across all departments, to underpin our critical business applications," said Louis Trehondart, Managing Director of Calyon. "Following a thorough analysis of the marketplace, we found that Asset Control's AC Plus was a cost effective solution to deploy, offering improved business benefits and value, both short and long term.

The solution will manage data from external data sources as well as internal sources, and will include equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives and commodities data. AC Plus will consolidate the management of Calyon's reference data, corporate actions, and pricing data. Calyon will additionally utilize Asset Control's workflow to improve process management, ensuring efficient handling of the data to users and applications. The resulting high-quality consolidated information will be distributed to many diverse applications within the risk, middle and back-office, within Calyon. With a centralized database in Paris, Calyon users globally will access the solution via the AC Desktop.

"Planning to centralize data management globally, across multiple business lines is a significant undertaking. Key in these decisions is having the confidence in the capabilities of the chosen technology and the solution's ability to provide quality data management. We are pleased to have proven our world-class off-the-shelf solution and our years of expertise to such a prestigious firm as Calyon and are delighted to have them join our family of clients." said Ger Rosenkamp, CEO of Asset Control.

About Calyon

Calyon is the Corporate and Investment Bank of the Credit Agricole Group. Backed by Credit Agricole S.A.'s credit ratings and financial solidity, Calyon is positioned as a major player in financial markets and among Europe's leading corporate and investment banks by revenues. With a staff of 13,000 employees in 55 countries, Calyon offers its large corporate and financial institution clients increased investment capacity in the world's financial markets. Calyon's activities are organized into two major divisions, Capital Markets, Brokerage, and Investment Banking and the Financing Division.

About Asset Control

Asset Control is the world's leading provider of Centralized Data Management (CDM) to financial industry firms. With a complete range of in-house and outsourced options, Asset Control delivers Total Data Management (TDM), a hybrid approach to data management. The selection of developer tools, turnkey software solutions and outsourced services enable users to optimize their investment data for efficiency, cost control, reduced operational risk and increased value from their data.

Derived from the robust and reliable AC Plus modular framework, the Asset Control product set includes data solutions addressing market risk, counterparty credit risk, security master, research and corporate actions, as well as global data networking and administration. Handling data from vendors and in-house systems, these solutions collect, validate, normalize, and consolidate data into cleansed composite "golden copy" sets for business use.

Customers include Abbey National, ABN AMRO, Allied Irish Banks PLC, Barclays Capital, Barclays Global Investors, Bayerische Landesbank, BBVA, Calyon, Commerzbank, Convexity Capital Management, E*TRADE Securities, LLC, IBM (Dresdner Bank), Grupo Santander, Harvard Management Company, HSH Nordbank, HypoVereinsbank, ING, LCH.Clearnet, Robeco Groep, Societe Generale, Standard Bank, Standard Chartered, Union Investment and Wachovia Corporation as well as a super-major global energy group. Established in 1991, Asset Control is a privately held firm with operations in London, New York and the Netherlands. For more information please visit http://www.asset-control.com.