Monex Inc. selects Markit for corporate actions

LONDON, NEW YORK, SINGAPORE, TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Markit (Nasdaq: MRKT), a leading global provider of financial information services, today announced the signing of Monex Inc., a leading online securities company in Japan, to its corporate actions service. The agreement will enable Monex to provide validated corporate actions data for all of its offered trading stocks.

“By incorporating Markit’s corporate actions data into our service, Monex becomes the only online securities firm offering such a service in Japan,” said Motoki Kitamura, general manager, operations department at Monex. “Our goal is to provide individual investors with the best services and the addition of this service will provide comprehensive access to high quality corporate actions data for our clients.”

“We are so pleased to be working with Monex, who is recognised in the region as being a sophisticated online broker for individuals looking to invest in US stocks and ETFs. The addition of Markit’s corporate actions service to the Monex offering will provide customers with access to validated corporate actions data from over 160 countries and territories,” said Brian Okupski, managing director and head of corporate actions at Markit.

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About Markit

Markit is a leading global provider of financial information services. We provide products that enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Our customers include banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, auditors, fund administrators and insurance companies. Founded in 2003, we employ over 4,000 people in 11 countries. Markit shares are listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MRKT. For more information, please see www.markit.com.

About Monex Inc.

Monex Inc, is a major online securities brokerage which provides advanced and unique financial services to individual investors as a pioneer among Japanese online securities brokers. Upon the deregulation of stock brokerage commissions in Japan in 1999, Oki Matsumoto, Chief Executive Officer, founded Monex, Inc., a first online brokerage firm in Japan, jointly capitalized with Sony Corporation. Its services cover asset management focusing on alternative investments, investment education and other investment banking functions along with an online distribution network to more than 1.5 million individual investors in Japan. Monex, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. Monex, Inc. provides the advanced US stock brokerage service to individual investors in Japan with comparatively lower commission fee and covers more than 3,000 individual stocks. For more information, please see http://www.monex.co.jp/AboutUs/00000000/guest/G100/eng/index.html.

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