HKEx Migrates to Genium INET Powered Platform for Derivatives
                       Trading and Clearing

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NASDAQ OMX
Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announces that the Hong Kong Exchanges &
Clearing Ltd (HKEx) will upgrade its derivatives trading system (HKATS)
and clearing system (DCASS) to NASDAQ OMX's Genium INET technology. In
addition HKEx has extended its support contract with NASDAQ OMX for a
further five years. The platform upgrade is scheduled to be in effect
by fourth quarter of 2013.

The Genium INET powered platform will provide HKEx with integrated
trading and clearing of a wide range of derivatives including financial
index futures and options, stock futures and options, currency futures,
interest rate futures, fixed income futures, commodity futures,
volatility index futures and dividend futures. Moreover, the Genium
INET technology will provide HKEx with microsecond latency and
significant throughput improvements. The HKEx derivatives market has
been operating on NASDAQ OMX trading technology since 1994.

Bill Chow, Chief Technology Officer of HKEx, said: "Our adoption of the
Genium INET technology will move our long and fruitful partnership with
NASDAQ OMX into the next phase and strengthen the global
competitiveness of the Hong Kong capital market. We are excited to roll
out a new derivatives trading and clearing platform at HKEx and we are
confident it will benefit HKEx Participants and investors alike."

Lars Ottersgard, Senior Vice President NASDAQ OMX Market Technology,
commented: "HKEx has always been at the forefront of technology and we
congratulate them on their commitment to the world's most sophisticated
trading and clearing platform. As one of the largest and most advanced
financial markets in the world, HKEx and its participants and investors
will enjoy significant performance and capacity benefits from our
Genium INET technology, putting them on the path for continued growth."

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entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to
surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 24
markets, 3 clearinghouses and 6 central securities depositories
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futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million
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our technology drives more than 70 exchanges in 50 developed and
emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's
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