Bursa Malaysia Selects Thomson Reuters for Data...

Kuala Lumpur - 9 December, 2009 - Thomson Reuters today announced  it
has  been  selected  by  Bursa   Malaysia  to  deliver  a  new   data
distribution platform  to  support their  growing  trading  business.
Under the terms  of the  agreement Thomson Reuters  will provide  its
enterprise platform for high  performance information management  and
real time market data  dissemination, improving the services  offered
by the exchange to brokers.

Following an  intensive  evaluation phase,  Bursa  Malaysia  selected
Thomson Reuters  based  on the  performance  and scalability  of  its
solutions to  establish an  effective  and reliable  data  management
platform for the Exchange. The offering combines the latest  versions
of Thomson Reuters Market Data  System and direct feed technology  to
deliver a low latency, fully redundant and highly scalable real  time
platform. The  platform integrates  incoming  data feeds  from  Bursa
Malaysia and publishes them for distribution to their members. Market
participants will gain unparalleled performance for price  discovery,
transparency and price improvement.

Lim Jit Jee, Chief  Information Officer of  Bursa Malaysia said,  "As
our market grows bigger and more sophisticated, there is greater need
to ensure that  our data  distribution platform caters  to speed  and
scalability of the changing landscape.  This new market data  gateway
from Thomson Reuters will be beneficial to our customers as it allows
the Exchange  to  package market  data  according to  our  customers'
needs, as  well  as ensure  that  information is  distributed  in  an
expedient manner."

Edward Haddad,  Managing  Director,  ASEAN,  South  Asia  &  Pacific,
Thomson Reuters, said: "By providing  Bursa Malaysia a complete  data
delivery solution, Thomson Reuters is reinforcing its commitment  and
ability to  provide  market  leading technology,  data,  and  support
services to global  exchanges. We are  delighted to collaborate  with
Bursa Malaysia in support of their evolving infrastructure."

This agreement further underlines Thomson Reuters ability to  provide
exchanges and electronic  trading platform  providers with  flexible,
high performance technology  and content solutions  to support  their
business needs.

Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent
information for businesses and professionals.  We combine industry
expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information
to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and
accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the
world's most trusted news organization.  With headquarters in New
York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson
Reuters employs more than 50,000 people and operates in over 100
countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

Bursa Malaysia
Bursa Malaysia Berhad is a public company limited by shares under the
Companies Act 1965. Bursa Malaysia is an approved exchange holding
company under Section 15 of the Capital Markets and Services Act
2007. Other companies in the Bursa Malaysia Berhad Group of companies
include a stock exchange, a derivatives exchange, an off-shore
international financial exchange, equity and derivatives clearing
houses, a central depository, an information services provider and an
Information Technology services provider.

Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bursa
Malaysia Berhad, is an approved stock exchange under Section 8 of the
Capital Markets and Services Act 2007.



CONTACTS
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PR Director, Enterprise, Thomson  Head, Corporate Communications,
Reuters                           Bursa Malaysia
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