Credit Suisse Announces Roll-Out of SponsorCross(TM); New Proprietary Crossing Capability Designed for Plan Sponsors.

NEW YORK -- Credit Suisse's Transition Management group is pleased to announce the roll out of SponsorCross(TM), the newest trading crossing capability designed for Plan Sponsor clients who are in the process of implementing a transition, a corporate buyback, raising cash for distribution to pension fund participants or reallocation of assets and funding new managers with cash.

"SponsorCross is the latest in a suite of cutting-edge products that enable us to provide our Plan Sponsor clients a best-in-class platform for transition implementation," said Hari Achuthan, a Director in the Pension Strategies & Transition Management group at Credit Suisse. "The role of SponsorCross is to provide equal opportunities between Plan Sponsors to potentially reduce risk and associated implementation costs (implementation shortfall) of a transition."

The SponsorCross product manages the first step of the crossing process by identifying crosses between Plan Sponsors only, while optimizing and maximizing crossing opportunities. All crosses between Plan Sponsors that are generated by SponsorCross are priced using the closing prices of the benchmark date and printed on the respective exchanges. Once the first step of crossing between Plan Sponsors is complete, the second step is to cross the order with other Credit Suisse client flow to potentially reduce implementation costs for Plan Sponsors. This process is managed by CrossFinder(R) - a Credit Suisse developed proprietary crossing system which is also an Alternative Trading System (ATS).

For more information about SponsorCross, please call 1-888-233-5784 or email [e-mail].

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