China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Ltd. Implements NASDAQ OMX’s SMARTS Broker to Manage Equities Surveillance (AcT)

NEW YORK and HONG KONG, April 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- China Merchants Securities (HK) Co, Ltd. ("CMS"), a wholly owned subsidiary of China Merchants Securities Co., Ltd. ("China Merchants Securities"), has implemented NASDAQ OMX's SMARTS Broker solution for surveillance and compliance monitoring of its equities trading activity.

CMS' compliance team will use the SMARTS Broker solution to enhance surveillance capabilities in monitoring both client and employee trading for abuse across disparate trading systems. Easy to deploy as a hosted solution, SMARTS Broker satisfies CMS' need for more robust surveillance capabilities. CMS will utilize the automated trade monitoring solution to quickly identify suspicious trading behavior and intuitively detect potential market manipulation. SMARTS Broker will provide CMS compliance professionals with actionable insight and sophisticated alerts for insider trading, market manipulation, and violations of order handling rules, watch lists and restricted lists.

The partnership between CMS and NASDAQ OMX provides an opportunity to expand the highly scalable SMARTS Broker surveillance and compliance monitoring technology to other areas of operation across mainland China. NASDAQ OMX SMARTS surveillance and compliance monitoring technology fosters a community of transparency as it is also used by China's HKEx Exchange and the regulator SFC.

Benny Mau, spokesman of CMS, said, "We searched for a solution that could better manage our surveillance responsibilities and keep pace with the existing and future regulatory demands."

Benny added, "SMARTS Broker meets these requirements with sophisticated capabilities that put our surveillance program on par with global investment banks, exchanges and regulators."

Paul McKeown, Vice President of Market Technology at NASDAQ OMX, said, "CMS growing business in the Asia Pacific region will be well-served by their decision to enhance market surveillance capabilities using SMARTS Broker, a solution with enough flexibility and scalability to add new asset classes and connect to new marketplaces as their business evolves."

He added, "Hong Kong is a great example of where NASDAQ OMX SMARTS is used by broker-dealers, exchanges and the regulator. The NASDAQ OMX surveillance and compliance monitoring technology continues to foster market integrity in financial services communities across the world."

About China Merchants Securities:

China Merchants Securities, one of the leading financial services institutions in China, was listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange in November, 2009 (Trading Code: 600999).

CMS is licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong to conduct Type 1, 2, 4, 6 and 9 regulated activity, with main focuses on securities brokerage, investment banking and asset management businesses.

As of Jan 2012, China Merchants Securities and its subsidiary, CMS, have a client base of more than 3.5 million accounts and its asset under management reaches at US 75 billion.

About NASDAQ OMX

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CONTACT: China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Ltd.
Phone: 0086 755 269 51111
Email : sbox@cmschina.com.cn