MCI first to be approved as JSE Accredited Shared Infrastructure Provider

Issued by Global Research Partners for MCI

Johannesburg, 19 Oct 2010

MCI Consultants (“MCI”) today announced that the JSE Securities Exchange (“JSE”) has approved it as its first accredited Shared Infrastructure Provider (“SIP”).

This accreditation signals a significant move by the JSE in that it will allow MCI to offer various hosted and managed services to both JSE brokers and other users.

MCI is on track to supply the following managed hosted services:

* Market data
* Trading
* Portfolio management
* Online trading
* Mobile services
* Accounting solutions
* Business intelligence
* Disaster recovery

MCI will provide the above services to both its existing clients and also offer these to new users.

“This will provide our existing clients with a cost-effective alternative and offer new clients hosted solutions, without the need to worry about hardware and infrastructure expenditure,” commented Jan Rabbets, Business Partner at MCI. “Thus, this will enable JSE Brokers and other service providers the ability to enrich their offerings to their clients without any upfront investment.

“Our existing clients have already expressed an interest in these managed services, and therefore we will continue to provide an ever increasing range of cost-effective solutions on this platform,” continued Rabbets.

For further information, please contact Jan Rabbets tel 011 454-3420, fax 011 454-3417, e-mail j.rabbets@mci.co.za.

MCI Consultants

MCI Consultants is a South African-based business information systems consulting firm specialising in providing software solutions to the business community, specifically to the financial services and personnel recruitment industries.

MCI offers a complete solution, including network and communications services, business performance management solutions and accounting systems. MCI also provides bespoke developments, including software for the JSE Stock Brokers, including Trading and Portfolio systems that also incorporate e-commerce and mobile technologies.

Its approach is to continuously provide solutions to meet its clients' changing requirements. It prides itself in delivering excellent customer service and building long-lasting partnerships with its clients.

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