The single biggest challenge facing the Transfer Agency industry is regulation, which is evident in the survey findings. It is interesting to see the global reach of this, and also how these are directly impacting the way that the industry operates.

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PARIS, LONDON, 15 May 2012 – Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that Malta-based financial services provider, GlobalCapital Financial Management Ltd, which forms part of the GlobalCapital plc group, has renewed its contract for Linedata Icon, a market leading fund accounting platform and part of Linedata’s comprehensive solution for institutional investment managers and third party administrators.

GlobalCapital plc is a leading financial services provider, operating in insurance, investment and property services. Its subsidiaries have been in the market for over 40 years.  The company first ventured into fund administration in 2007 and undertook a thorough selection process to find a software system that best fit and supported its needs.  Linedata Icon was chosen based on its match to GlobalCapital’s selection criteria and requirement for strong vendor credentials.  The flexible configuration and high level of automation within Linedata Icon allows more of GlobalCapital’s business operations and processes to be handled within the system, providing a very efficient workflow.

James Blake, Chief Operating Officer for Global Capital, commented, “Most firms have been affected by the economic downturn and have had to revisit their processes and operations resulting in more robust and efficient outfits.  Despite this, the Maltese financial services industry continues to grow in strength. It has been able to capitalise on its attractive fiscal environment within the EU, a robust regulatory environment and its well-trained, motivated workforce. New opportunities have been created which GlobalCapital is seeking to benefit from. Looking forward, we are confident that this experience will place firms like ourselves in a more competitive position.  This is further strengthened by Linedata’s flexible systems, its approach to supporting our business model and the support offered by Linedata in an increasingly complex environment, both in terms of regulation and portfolio diversification.

“Our experience with Linedata has been very positive. Linedata continues to provide great hands on support and has helped our staff gain the knowledge and expertise to optimize the processes within Linedata Icon. Today, our staff has sufficient knowledge to benefit from the efficiencies that Linedata Icon can provide, and for these reasons, when the time came to renew our contract, we saw no reason to consider an alternative provider.”

Adrian Andrews, Managing Director for Linedata Northern Europe, said, “I am delighted that GlobalCapital has continued its commitment to Linedata Icon.  We work in partnership with our clients and continually invest in our software solutions and services to ensure that we provide the best functionality today and in the future.  Linedata Icon forms part of Linedata’s back office platform, providing a complete, scalable solution for both administrators and asset management firms around the world. We have an increasing number of clients in Malta and other financial jurisdictions and we are proud to support these centers with solutions that meet the challenges of managing greater complexity in regulation and diversification of portfolios.”

ABOUT LINEDATA

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. As a pioneer for over 10 years with the setup of SaaS infrastructure for the financial industry, Linedata has preached and spread this model throughout the global financial community, for its full range of products. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 137.3 million in 2011. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN – Reuters LDSV.LN – Bloomberg LIN:FP.

Linedata provides comprehensive solutions and services to manage all types of investment processes, from pre-trade to post-settlement, across a wide range of firms, including institutional portfolio and collective management companies, hedge funds, prime brokers, fund managers, transfer agents, corporate savings fund managers, subsidiaries of banks or independents, and administrators.

Linedata Icon is a complete back office investment management, fund accounting, portfolio valuation and fund pricing solution for all types of funds and all sizes of institution. Centred on its core, real-time, multi-currency accounting system, Linedata Icon manages stock positions, generates, records and accounts for all investment transactions and calculates accurate Net Asset Values and prices for multi-class collective investment funds.

ABOUT GLOBALCAPITAL

GlobalCapital is listed on the Malta Stock Exchange and is the result of a merger between two leading Maltese financial services companies in 2003. The group’s Life Insurance operation was established in 1965 whilst the Investment Services arm was established in 1987. The group is one of the early pioneers in the development of Malta’s financial services sector with one of its companies, GlobalCapital Financial Management, being one of the founding members of the Malta Stock Exchange. The Group, which has both local and international shareholders, was listed on the Malta Stock Exchange in 2001.

Over the years GlobalCapital has enjoyed rapid growth primarily offering its services in Malta. The group has developed into a leading financial services provider in Malta offering a varied portfolio of services to cater for the diverse needs of its clients and operating in three main areas: Insurance (as a Life Principal; exclusive agent to Bupa in Malta and General Insurance Broker), Investment Services and Property Services.

For more information, please contact:

Linedata
Beth Allan, Marketing Manager Northern Europe
Tel: +44 207 469 8724
beth.allan@uk.linedata.com

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Paris, New York, May 7, 2012 – Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that ISIS Fund Services (“ISIS”) has selected award-winning Linedata Beauchamp, part of Linedata’s comprehensive solution for the alternative investment industry. ISIS, a leading hedge fund administrator, will leverage Linedata Beauchamp and its extensive reporting capabilities to offer their clients on-demand access to portfolio management reports, providing ISIS with a key market differentiator.

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, administrators strive to provide an ever wider range of services while also meeting fund managers’ demands for greater transparency, expertise and responsiveness. ISIS have addressed clients’ needs by expanding their offering to include a robust reporting engine, powered by Linedata Beauchamp, supplying a large variety of portfolio analytics with drill-down capability to transaction level detail. The reports will aggregate data from multiple prime brokers, providing slice and dice views of the portfolio. Brian Desmond, COO of ISIS Fund Services, explained: “Linedata Beauchamp, with its excellent reporting functionality, is an important addition to our product offering, as it brings enhanced transparency into our back-office services for our clients, and will add much value to our clients’ own internal analysis. Hedge fund managers recognize that producing this type of portfolio analysis can be challenging and resource hungry. Enabling our clients to access this robust reporting platform gives our clients a smart, cost-effective solution, and one which appeals not only to the large, multi-prime manager, but also to the emerging manager who may not have the necessary tools at their disposal.”

ISIS intend to bring this service to market in early Q3, 2012, and to follow it soon after with further client offerings in partnership with Linedata, including risk reporting and enhanced middle office services.

ISIS Fund Services’ approach, to review and expand the services they offer to their market, is part of a growing trend. Jack Wiener, Executive Vice President, Linedata North America, commented: “Linedata is seeing a strong move towards outsourcing in the hedge fund market. Activities which are not core to actually managing the fund can be more effectively addressed by an expert administrator such as ISIS. With our extensive experience in both the institutional and hedge fund markets, serving both fund managers and administrators, and with our strategic approach to partnerships, Linedata is well positioned to support ISIS in terms of both expertise and product range and we look forward to working with them.”

ABOUT LINEDATA

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. As a pioneer for over 10 years with the setup of SaaS infrastructure for the financial industry, Linedata has preached and spread this model throughout the global financial community, for its full range of products. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 137.3 million in 2011. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN – Reuters LDSV.LN – Bloomberg LIN:FP.

Linedata provides comprehensive solutions and services to manage all types of investment processes, from pre-trade to post-settlement, across a wide range of firms, including institutional portfolio and collective management companies, hedge funds, prime brokers, fund managers, transfer agents, corporate savings fund managers, subsidiaries of banks or independents, and administrators.

ABOUT ISIS FUND SERVICES

ISIS FUND SERVICES is a well-established fund administrator providing administrative and operational support to a wide range of global investment managers adopting a diverse range of investment styles. Our product offering specializes in hedge funds, ILS funds, fund of hedge funds and private equity funds with a comprehensive range of fund administration services. ISIS has offices in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the U.S. The Company was founded by a leadership team with significant in depth knowledge and expertise in fund administration and has created a company that is client focused with the ability to offer products and services tailored to meet clients’ needs. The Company’s success is built on stability, professionalism and expertise combined with flexibility, autonomy and character. ISIS Fund Services Ltd. is licensed as a fund administrator by the Bermuda Monetary Authority under the Investment Funds Act 2006.

For more information, please contact:

Linedata
Liz Fidler
Tel: +44 207 469 8725
liz.fidler@uk.linedata.com

ISIS Fund Services
Kristin Steele
Tel: + 1 704 927 1860
kristins@isisfunds.bm

€ millions-IFRS	Q1 2011	Q1 2012	Change	Like-for-like change at constant exchange rates*
Southern Europe	15.6	17.0	+9.1%	-1.8%
Northern Europe	6.5	6.5	-0.6%	-2.4%
North America	8.7	9.9	+13.2%	+8.5%
Asia	0.9	0.8	-11.8%	-15.7%
TOTAL	31.7	34.1	+7.6%	+0.5%

Rounded, unaudited figures
* Includes the company Fimasys from the 3^rd quarter of 2011

Neuilly-sur-Seine, 25 April 2012: Linedata (LIN:FP), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit finance industries, posted revenue of €34.1 million for the first quarter of 2012, up 7.6% compared to the first quarter of 2011, representing a like-for-like increase of 0.5% at constant exchange rates

The recurring revenue has increased by €0.9 million to €25.5 million, i.e. 75% of the quarterly turnover.

New booking since the beginning of the year have increased by 9% compared to the first quarter of 2011, standing at €11.7 million by the end of March.

Performance analysis by geographic zone:

SOUTHERN EUROPE (Q1: €17.0 million, +9.1%)

Business in the Southern Europe region has increased by 9.1%, thanks in particular to the positive impact of the acquisition of Fimasys, which accounts for €1.7 million, and to the sale of perpetual licences and maintenance activities. Apart from Fimasys, the quarterly turnover is down 1.8% compared to the same period in 2011.

NORTHERN EUROPE (Q1: €6.5 million, -0.6%)

Business in the first quarter of 2012 in Northern Europe is stable compared to the same period in 2011.
Increased sales due to maintenance activities offset the drop in consulting and research-related business.

NORTH AMERICA (Q1: €9.9 million, +13.2%)

Turnover reported in the United States shows a steady increase, marked by a favourable euro/dollar exchange rate. At constant exchange rates, the activity shows growth of 8.5%.

Increased consulting activity and the commercial success of the product Linedata Longview contribute to the strong performance in this market sector.

ASIA (Q1: €0.8 million, -11.8%)

The quarterly turnover has dropped slightly compared to the 1^st quarter of 2011. Despite the vigorous growth of this region, business suffers on account of a competitive environment with significant price pressure.

Outlook:

Based on the strong order book and the contribution of Fimasys expected for the full year, Linedata can anticipate revenue growth in 2012.

Next communication: Publication of revenues for the 1^st half-year of 2012 on 25 July 2012 after close of trading.

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ABOUT LINEDATA

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 137.3 million in 2011. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN – Reuters LDSV.LN – Bloomberg LIN:FP.

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PARIS, LONDON, 18 April 2012: Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that it has won a HFMWeek service provider award for the third consecutive year. Named ‘Best Portfolio Management System’ for Linedata Beauchamp, Linedata was the only technology vendor to be shortlisted in four categories: Best Overall Technology Provider; Best Technology for Start-up Funds; Best Portfolio Management Software Provider; and Best Provider of Cloud Computing Services.

The awards are given to firms and solutions which have demonstrated financial progress, growth and genuine innovation across a number of different business areas. Linedata’s comprehensive hedge fund platform covers front-to-back capabilities and deploys integrated, best-of-breed software covering capabilities in trading, order management, compliance, risk and reporting as well as a wide range of connectivity to liquidity providers, prime brokers, administrators and others, delivered either as a hosted or in-house solution. The power of Linedata’s hedge fund platform lies in its flexibility to handle all the complex assets and strategies employed by hedge funds today, and to adapt to every hedge fund’s workflow while at the same time giving funds the ability, in real-time, to manage and report on their NAV, P&L and exposures however they need to. Scalable, robust and cost-effective, Linedata’s hedge fund platform is suitable for any size of fund.

“Hedge funds are constantly striving to do more with less, whilst keeping their main focus on the core business of generating alpha. In this challenging environment, Linedata leverages our extensive knowledge of the sector to help managers, incubators (such as recently-signed The Alpha Cooperative) and hedge fund hotels to stay ahead by delivering a technology platform which meets all alternative investment needs, from front to back office and including a SaaS approach if desired. We are delighted to win ‘Best Portfolio Management System’, and to be shortlisted in a further three categories. It is a powerful endorsement of Linedata’s approach and of the continuing investment in our hedge fund platform to meet the industry’s need for comprehensive, cost-effective solutions,” said Anvaraly Jiva, Founder and CEO of Linedata.

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ABOUT LINEDATA

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. As a pioneer for over 10 years with the set up of SaaS infrastructure for the financial industry, Linedata has preached and spread this model throughout the global financial community, for its full range of products. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 137.3 million in 2011. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN – Reuters LDSV.LN – Bloomberg LIN:FP.

Linedata provides comprehensive front-to-back solutions and services to manage all types of investment processes, from pre-trade to post-settlement, across a wide range of firms, including institutional portfolio and collective management companies, hedge funds, prime brokers, fund managers, transfer agents, corporate savings fund managers, and subsidiaries of banks or independents.

For more information, please contact:

Linedata

Liz Fidler

Tel: + 44 207 469 8725

liz.fidler@ne.linedata.com

Paris, London 17 April 2012 – Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that PI Funds, which runs an emerging market macro fund, has selected award-winning Linedata Beauchamp as its portfolio management solution. PI Funds will use Linedata Hosting to run the software.

As a highly successful fund, which has delivered positive returns each year since inception, PI Funds attracts much interest from investors. In order to cope with increased inflows and the resulting higher levels of transactions, and to improve automation, PI Funds decided to upgrade their systems. A rigorous search was conducted by an internal team with representation from front, middle and back office and IT. Four solutions were shortlisted and Linedata Beauchamp prevailed. Ronen Bitman, PI Funds’ Director of IT, commented: “We selected Linedata because of the depth and longevity of market experience in alternative investments and the truly international client base, including peer organisations, which meant we were confident that Linedata could accommodate our needs. Additional factors were the real-time on-line support offered and the openness of Linedata Beauchamp, which means interfacing with our other service providers is relatively simple.”

PI Funds sees a number of advantages in adopting Linedata Beauchamp. In the immediate short term, process-focused workload for the middle and back office teams will go down as automation comes on line, especially in respect of interfaces with PI Funds’ administrators and prime brokers. This will allow their highly-trained staff to focus their energies on exception management and on areas of expansion. There will also be front office benefits as traders’ administrative work will be reduced, freeing up more time for trading. Maintaining a single source of all data will eliminate duplications and increase accuracy. Longer term, the scalability and resilience of Linedata Beauchamp will aid PI Funds’ growth.

“We are delighted that PI Funds has selected Linedata Beauchamp to manage their portfolio,” said Adrian Andrews, Managing Director of Linedata Northern Europe. “Increasingly, investors look not only at a fund’s performance but also at its processes and systems. Linedata Beauchamp is proven in the markets and recognized by investors as a robust, best-of-breed portfolio management solution which can handle a broad range of instruments and the most complex of portfolios. By choosing a hosted version of the software, PI Funds will enjoy the benefits of our state-of-the-art data centers around the world, the latest software versions and full disaster recovery.”

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ABOUT LINEDATA

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. As a pioneer for over 10 years with the setup of SaaS infrastructure for the financial industry, Linedata has preached and spread this model throughout the global financial community, for its full range of products. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 137.3 million in 2011. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN – Reuters LDSV.LN – Bloomberg LIN:FP.

Linedata provides comprehensive solutions and services to manage all types of investment processes, from pre-trade to post-settlement, across a wide range of firms, including institutional portfolio and collective management companies, hedge funds, prime brokers, fund managers, transfer agents, corporate savings fund managers, subsidiaries of banks or independents, and administrators.

For more information, please contact:

Linedata

Liz Fidler

Tel: +44 207 469 8725

liz.fidler@uk.linedata.com

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PARIS, BOSTON and LONDON, April 10, 2012 – Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today released the results of a recent fund manager and fund administrator survey. The survey respondents spanned 10 countries and ranged in size from US$5 billion to over US$40 billion.

Technology is Key Differentiator

With the challenges and issues they are facing, firms will look to technology to be a key competitive differentiator. To that end, over 87% of firms surveyed cited it was a priority to improve upon or replace their existing software.

Gavin Little-Gill, Linedata Global Head of Asset Management Products, observed, “With 56 significant product and servicing agreements signed in our back office solutions group in 2011, Linedata can attest to this trend. Linedata offers comprehensive back-office solutions, which embody powerful combinations of compliance monitoring, reporting and portfolio management capabilities along with core fund accounting and investor servicing functionality.”

Other key findings include the addition of clients and increasing asset type coverage as leading causes of client revenue growth; while regulation, cost cutting and adapting operational workflows to increasing client demands are the key challenges faced by over 87% of the firms surveyed.

Regulation Leads the Way

The survey shows that 64% of both manager and administrator respondents consider regulations to be a key issue they are facing in their business. With the requirement to comply with many new or amended regulations across regions, there will be much greater need to further automate compliance policy procedures, compliance reporting and breach management capabilities. Administrators will further focus on increasing client demands and fee pressures; while managers are more concerned by cutting costs.

On the findings, Gavin Little-Gill commented, “With the brisk pace of change and tight competition today, clear strategic thinking is more important than ever. To succeed in a globalized market, firms need to develop the correct strategy to optimize and secure their growth. Linedata specializes in partnering with our clients to ensure they have the technology and services to support their business requirements not just for today, but in the future.”

The full survey can be read here.

ABOUT LINEDATA

Linedata is a global solutions provider with 700 clients operating in 50 countries. With more than 900 employees across the globe, Linedata is dedicated to the investment management and credit community. Linedata has been at the service of the financial industry from day one, and applies its market and client insight to provide innovative and tailored mission-critical software and services that help its clients grow. As a pioneer for over 10 years with the setup of SaaS infrastructure for the financial industry, Linedata has preached and spread this model throughout the global financial community, for its full range of products. Headquartered in France, Linedata achieved revenues of EUR 137.3 million in 2011. This company is listed on Euronext Paris FR0004156297-LIN – Reuters LDSV.LN – Bloomberg LIN:FP.

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For more information, please contact:

Linedata
Karen M. Hays
Tel: +1 617-912-4766
Karen.Hays@na.linedata.com

Fund managers and fund administrators are continuing to be forced to do more with less; they are facing additional pressure on their operations and have an increasing demand for higher efficiencies. As a result of these challenges, funds are changing their practices to meet the demands of institutional investors.

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