Jim Northey spoke at the first FIX Protocol Latin America Electronic Trading Conference hosted by the BM&F in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

OpenFAST is released in public beta. OpenFAST is an open source implementation of the FAST protocol (http://www.fixprotocol.org/fast) written in Java. FAST is a streaming adaption of the FIX protocol, which allows for very fast, very efficient transfers of trade-related messages.

Jim Northey elected co-chair of FIX Protocol Ltd. Americas Regional Committee.

The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC is formed.