Banca Profilo selects Orc Trading for market making on the Borsa Italiana MTA and IDeM markets

Milan, ITALY, Thursday, February 11, 2010 – Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced trading and connectivity, today announced that Banca Profilo has selected Orc Trading for its market making activities on the Italian equities market (MTA) and the Italian equity derivatives market (IDeM). Founded in 1988 and listed at the Italian Stock Exchange, Banca Profilo is a privately held investment bank based in Milan, with offices throughout Italy and in Geneva. The order was booked in Q4 2009 and the contract is based on Orc’s licensing subscription model.

“Orc Trading is a synonym of reliability and efficiency in the market making area,” declared Paolo Muselli, Head of Organization & IT at Banca Profilo. “Orc Trading for market making truly impressed us for its high-performance capabilities, its sophisticated volatility and pricing tools and its complete mass quoting functionalities, all key factors in our preference for Orc.” “We are very proud that Banca Profilo has selected Orc to enhance their market making business on the Italian markets, thus also laying the foundation to sustain the bank’s expansion into new instruments, markets and into new segments of trading,” said Daniele Moressa, Sales Manager Italy, Orc Software. “Banca Profilo’s choice further strengthens our ambition to become the preferred trading solution for all Italian market makers.” Orc Trading provides the competitive edge to trade from a single platform capable of running thousands of complex trading strategies simultaneously. Orc Trading is used by financial firms worldwide for enhanced trading, pricing and risk management on electronically traded derivatives. Orc Connect is the global financial industry’s leading connectivity solution. Orc Connect provides traders and brokers with fast, reliable access to liquidity pools, both for market members and non-members, in the critical areas of execution, market data and reference data. Orc Software is next exhibiting at the 16th Aiaf Assiom Atic Forex Congress that will take place in Naples on February 12-13, 2010. About Orc Software’s revenue model Standard agreements follow Orc’s licensing subscription model, a flexible approach designed to streamline the customer on boarding process and provide ease of access to software updates, together with a mature support framework. Customers are invoiced quarterly, in advance, and revenue allocated to the invoicing period. About Banca Profilo Listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, Banca Profilo is an investment bank specialized in private banking, investment banking and capital markets. It is present in Milan, Rome, Genoa, Reggio Emilia, Turin, Forlì, Brescia, Pistoia and Geneva (through its subsidiary Banque Profil de Gestion). Established in 1988 as a financial company, Profilo became an investment firm in 1992 and a bank in 1995. www.bancaprofilo.it About Orc Software Orc Software (SSE: ORC) is the leading global provider of powerful solutions for the worldwide financial industry in the critical areas of advanced trading and low latency connectivity. Orc’s competitive edge lies in its depth of knowledge of the derivatives trading world gained by deploying advanced solutions for sophisticated traders for over 20 years. Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide the tools for making the best trading and connectivity decisions with strong analytics, unmatched market access, powerful automated trading functionality, high performance futures and options trading capabilities, ultra-low latency and risk management. Orc’s customers include leading banks, trading and market-making firms, exchanges, brokerage houses, institutional investors and hedge funds. Orc provides sales and quality support services from its offices across EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific. www.orcsoftware.com For further information: Paolo Muselli, Head of Organization & IT, Banca Profilo, Tel. +39 02 5840 8340 Daniele Moressa, Sales Manager Italy, Orc Software, Tel. +39 02 805 807 12 Christine Blinke, VP of Marketing and Investor Relations, Orc Software, Tel. +46 739 01 02 01

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