DENVER, March 11 /PRNewswire/ --

CQG, the leading analytics and trade routing platform for global electronically-traded futures markets, today announced the connection of its hosted order routing gateways to the LIFFE CONNECT(R) trading system via NYSE Euronext, Liffe's new 100Mbps High Speed Access line. To further enhance its service, CQG has also acquired space and exchange gateways in Liffe's Co-Location facility, enabling them to offer hosted high-speed, close-proximity exchange access to their partner firms.

CQG is currently the only Independent Software Vendor with space in the Liffe Co-Location facility. The Liffe connections enhance CQG's high-speed network of distributed exchange gateways, which offer customers low-latency connections to over ninety cash and futures exchanges worldwide.

CQG operates market data and order routing networks for over thirty partner clearing firms, ensuring quality and performance and enabling firms to focus on core trading operations and customer business.

"The customer response to our high-speed connectivity offerings has been very positive," said Paul MacGregor, Director Technology Partnerships for Liffe. "We are pleased that our business partners, as well as our trading members, have supported us in this initiative, and that is reflected in the commitment CQG is making to our Co-Location facility."

"We are very pleased to participate in the Co-Location service Liffe has provided their members," said Rod Giffen, Global Head of Sales and Support for CQG. "This access allows us to offer unmatched performance to the members through our hosted trading gateways and specialized close-proximity connections."

About CQG

CQG, Inc. is the industry's highest-performing solution to integrate market data, technical analysis, and trade routing. CQG's data coverage includes futures, options, fixed income, foreign exchange, and equities worldwide as well as debt securities, reports, and indices. CQG is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with sales and support offices worldwide. For more information about CQG, please visit http://www.cqg.com.

About Liffe

Liffe is the international derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, the transatlantic exchange formed in 2007. Liffe operates high-tech markets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris where every day more than 1,700 billion Euros worth of derivatives business is traded by customers based around the world. Liffe offers customers a broad choice of futures and options contracts on short-term interest rates, single stocks, indices, swaps, government bonds, commodities and currencies -- all available via our state-of-the-art LIFFE CONNECT(R) platform. As well as innovative products Liffe also work with our customers to develop pioneering services, like the award-winning Bclear, helping them to do business as effectively as possible. To find out how Liffe can help your business, visit http://www.nyseeuronext.com/liffe.

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Vera Kudashkin, Marketing & Communications of CQG, Inc., +1-303-573-1400, Marcomm@cqg.com