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ABOUT BRADY PLC

To prosper in today‘s increasingly complex marketplace, physical trading companies and financial institutions rely on specialist solutions and sophisticated analysis to maintain a competitive edge in the global markets. The latest generation of Brady‘s market leading solutions provides integrated trading, risk and settlement systems. With comprehensive audit, compliance and regulatory functions, businesses can now combine sophisticated management techniques with highly efficient throughput to drive down costs. The straight-through processing capability of an open service oriented architecture which facilitates ease of integration into the clients environment, thus enabling an enterprise to quickly achieve a lower cost per trade and provides a proven foundation for effective risk management and a streamlined, efficient business process. Brady plc (BRY.L) is a leading global provider of trading and risk management software to the global commodity markets.

Brady has more than 25 years of expertise in the commodity markets and over 150 customers worldwide depend on our software solutions to manage risk and deliver vital business transactions across their global operations. Our expert market knowledge, professionalism and proven problem-solving abilities enable us to understand the challenges our clients face and develop tailored solutions that consistently meet and exceed their needs.

In particular, we work with many of the world's largest miners, refiners and producers, banks, trading companies and a high proportion of London Metal Exchange (LME) membership categories, including over 50% of LME Category 1 members. These include Alcan, Aleris, Koch Supply & Trading, Asarco,, MAREX Financial, Mitsubishi Corporation, Novelis, Prysmian SpA, Lukoil Company, Cotton Distributors Inc, Donetsk, Rosbank, Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse SA, Sucden Financial, Standard Bank, Toyota Tsusho Metals, Trafigura and Xstrata Copper.

BRADY PLC - KEY DEVELOPMENTS

2011	Norsk Hydro goes live with Brady Elviz ETRM solution Alcan Engineered Products go live with Brady for risk management on metals Alison Ellmann joins Brady as Head of Global Marketing Brady wins Xstrata in Australia
2010	Ronly chooses Brady for integrated trade and risk management Brady acquires Norwegian Viz Risk Management Services AS (Viz) Brady set to become the largest European commodities software provider Brady wins new contract with BTI for coal and base metals trading Brady supports the gold forward contract cleared on LME Brady signs Selco Finance & Industrial Group for base oil trading Brady signs InVivo for agriculturals trading Xstrata Copper Choose Brady for Global Risk System Koch Supply & Trading Company Ltd. broadens use of Brady with global physical trading and LME SMART Brady's global risk management chosen by leading cotton trader Reinhart ING Brussels and Geneva sign with Brady Switzerland Brady acquires Viveo Switzerland to extend its reach in commodities markets Mitsubishi Corporation signs with Brady for global precious metals trading Sucden Financial choose Brady for Base Metal Options Pricing
2009	Xstrata Copper choose Brady's raw materials module for Peru & Chile Sebastian Esposito appointed Head of Sales, Americas Standard Bank Go Live with Brady for Trading and Risk Management including new LME SMART Interface Toyota Tsusho Metals Go Live with Brady for Trading and Risk Management Robert Brady moves to Non-Exec Role LME Specialist, Bob Watson joins Brady to head up LME Operations and Development Xstrata Copper choose Brady's Raw Materials Module Xstrata Copper Go Live with Brady's Risk Management Brady opens Asia Pacific Office in Singapore Brady aquires Commodities Software (UK) Ltd, known as Comsoft
2008	Toyota Tsusho metals chooses Brady for hedging & risk management on LME AMC choose Brady for trading risk management Brady provides connectivity to LME Select Asarco sign up for Brady's trading & risk solution BGC signs with Brady for Commodity risk management Prysmian Group chooses Brady for risk management Xstrata Copper sign with Brady for global risk management Brady opened London office Brady Concentrates Module released
2007	Gavin Lavelle appointed as Chief Executive Officer Paul Fullagar appointed as Chairman Novelis Inc begins implementation of Trinity
2006	Top copper producer selects Trinity. Large freight trading company selects Opval. European metals trading company selects Trinity. Leading U.S. investment bank chooses Trinity for global precious metals trading, and one of world's largest recycler of metal products and manufacturer of rolled products selects Trinity.
2005	Trinity V600 released with important enhancements including retrospective functionality, Auto FX, P/L attribution, enhanced communications engine. Open Standards Agreement with Commodities Software (UK) Ltd's Aquarius solution. Brady plc acquires Tradesoft BV and its AllTrade solution.
2004	Brady successfully lists on AIM of the London Stock Exchange increasing market capitalisation ten fold. New functionality announced in V600 includes retrospective capability, P&L attribution, on general release July 2005. Gerald Metals, HSBC and Alcan all choose Trinity. Brady plc acquires Colplan Systems Ltd and its Opval solution.
2003	Commonwealth Bank of Australia choose Trinity. Third party models interface. Further work on physicals includes summary invoicing; rent agreements, alumina, unallocated stock pools.
2002	Developed new physicals functionality with Koch Metals. This includes physical trade types, stock movements, secondary and pass through costs, advances, draft, provisional and final invoices.
2001	Trafigura chooses Brady for trading operation. Investec London chooses Trinity for metals, and FX. New pricing module includes min-max options and development of commodity swaps for Energy Derivatives.
2000	Koch Metals become the third London site for Metals. Major Back Office enhancements, including using Trinity as multi-entity product; interfacing with the LCH for LME products; margining to include SPAN; production of regulatory reporting, and the development of Warrant processing with related invoicing take place. CIMB sponsored significant treasury developments including Nostro's, Cash Management and SSI's.
1998	Standard Bank London chooses Brady and expands the use of pricing exotic metals instruments within Trinity.
1997	NM Rothschild becomes first user of Trinity Commodity Desk module developed for bullion.
1989	NM Rothschild purchases Brady's interest rates derivatives pricing and risk management system to support trading in swaps and options on interest rate products.
1987	New customers included Rudolf Wolff, Brandeis and Lehman Bros.
1985	Midland Bank requests development of pricing algorithms for FX options and becomes Brady's first client.

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