Credit Suisse Crossfinder[R] Trades Half Billion Shares Yesterday - Sets New Volume Record.

NEW YORK -- Credit Suisse today announced that its Crossfinder ATS traded a record 514 million shares on October 28, 2009. Crossfinder's volumes have steadily grown throughout the year, making Crossfinder the clear #1 ATS in the U.S. by volume matched. According to Rosenblatt Securities research, Crossfinder represented 1.55% of U.S. stock trading volume for the month of September, more than any other "dark pool."

"Over the past year, we have made a major push to add retail flows, enhance service for institutional clients, and build the capacity to handle larger volumes," said Dmitri Galinov, Head of Crossfinder at Credit Suisse. "We are very pleased to see that all our hard work is paying off."

Crossfinder, launched in 2004, and live in U.S., European and Asian markets, provides price improvement, anonymity and reduced market impact to clients globally. Clients can send orders to Crossfinder directly, or it can be accessed through any trading strategy offered by Advanced Execution Services (AES), Credit Suisse's top-ranked algorithmic trading platform.

Credit Suisse's Crossfinder Retail Network (CRN), launched in 2008, has proven to be very successful. "There are now over 500 million shares of retail flow passing through Crossfinder each day, which helps our clients find liquidity and possible price improvement." said Pankil Patel, Head of Trading for AES Americas.

The Zurich-based bank has climbed steadily through the volume rankings, ranking #1 according to Bloomberg for volume traded this year in the S&P 500. Credit Suisse senior executives said that the bank remains committed to further enhancing their capabilities in electronic trading. "We are committed to having the world's most robust trading infrastructure. We continue to invest significant resources to expand our global multi-asset class electronic trading platform for our clients. Crossfinder's success is a great example of return on that investment," said Robert Jain, Managing Director and Co-Head of Equities, Credit Suisse.

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