WASHINGTON, DC – Tick Data (www.tickdata.com), the market data division of Nexa Technologies, Inc. (www.nexatech.com), a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN), today announced the addition of Level I quote data to its offering of historical intraday Futures data. The new Futures Quote Data Set provides Level I quote data for all Futures contracts offered by Tick Data.  With more than 25 years of experience collecting, validating, cleaning, and providing historical market data, Tick Data is considered a pioneer and leader in the field.

“Tick Data has always listened to our clients’ needs, and provided the data required by all traders,” said Neal Falkenberry, SVP of Nexa’s Tick Data division.  “Over the past ten years we have more than doubled the breadth of Futures markets for which we provide historical intraday data, but this marks the first time we have offered additional depth as well.  We are excited to offer quote data for Futures, which will perfectly complement our Futures trade data set.”

Since its inception in 1984, Tick Data has provided Futures data to clients looking to develop and optimize automated trading models.  In that time, the Futures industry has been revolutionized by electronic and automated trading.  As emerging technologies have enabled traders to build more sophisticated models and access additional markets worldwide, Tick Data has responded to the need for information on new sources of trading liquidity by expanding its coverage.

Orders of the Futures Quote Data Set will include trade data for the same time period, and will ship with Tick Data’s popular TickWrite 7.1 Data Management Software.  This powerful, yet easy to use tool allows users to create custom ASCII files of historical intraday data formatted to suit virtually any application.

WASHINGTON, DC – Tick Data (www.tickdata.com), the market data division of Nexa Technologies, Inc. (www.nexatech.com), a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN), is pleased to announce the addition of Brazilian BM&F Bovespa Tick Equity Data to its offering of historical intraday market data. The new Brazilian Tick Equity Data Set includes trade and Level I quote data for equities traded on the Brazilian exchange back to May 7, 2008.  With more than 25 years of experience collecting, validating, cleaning, and providing historical trade and quote market data, Tick Data is considered a pioneer and leader in the field.

In the past decade, Brazil has emerged as the financial center of South America.  The BM&F Bovespa is a modern, all-electronic exchange that employs the latest trading technologies.  These technologies, along with regulatory changes, have made the Brazilian equity market appealing to algorithmic and automated traders who require historical market data to develop, test, and optimize their models.  These traders look to Tick Data to provide research-ready data for their analysis, and Tick Data continues to seek out markets of interest to the world’s automated traders. Tick Data expects to expand its coverage into additional equity markets in the coming months.

“We have noted a growing demand for historical data from the BM&F Bovespa, and Tick Data is pleased to be able to provide this data,” said Neal Falkenberry, SVP of Nexa’s Tick Data division.  “Emerging markets provide unique challenges and opportunities to traders, and our goal is to help traders overcome the obstacles related to acquiring the historical market data required to trade successfully.  Offering South American equity data brings us another step closer our goal of being the world’s central repository for historical intraday market data.”

As with all of Tick Data’s equity-based products, the Brazilian Tick Equity Data Set is fully supported with corporate action information, and is cleaned, validated, and mapped using Tick Data’s proprietary method, with daily updates available on an ongoing basis.

NEW YORK  (May 16, 2011) ― Options IT, the provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud^SM*  services platform for sell-side and buy-side firms, today announced an agreement with Tick Data, the historical market data division of Nexa Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN), to make Tick Data’s complete suite of tick-by-tick historical market data available on the Options PIPE platform.

Options PIPE clients now have access to Tick Data products for analyzing global, multi-asset class market trends and back-testing trading strategies.  Tick Data provides research-ready historical intraday time series data for the world’s equities, futures and options markets.  Options IT provides on-demand Private Financial Cloud services—including ultra-low latency market data, connectivity and fully optimized application hosting services—to the banking, trading, and traditional and alternative investment community.

The agreement comes as the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reported to be preparing a proposal to require backtesting on automated trading strategies before they go live in the market.

“We’re delighted to work with Tick Data to provide our clients access to its full suite of historical market data,” said Nigel Kneafsey, CEO of Options IT. “Given that regulators are now looking at how well trading firms scrutinize their automated trading strategies before live deployment, using a service like Tick Data’s is not only a best industry practice, but potentially a required one.”

Neal Falkenberry, SVP at Tick Data, said, “The highly volatile global markets of the past few years have generated many trading opportunities, but may also lead to increased regulatory scrutiny of trading activities.  Tick Data’s historical intraday market data products have always allowed our clients to reliably develop and test trading algorithms. We are happy to work with Options IT to offer a new way to access our research-ready data.”

*Service Mark status pending

About Tick Data (www.tickdata.com):

Founded in 1984, Tick Data, a division of Nexa Technologies, Inc., provides clean, reliable historical intraday time series data for the equities, options, and futures markets.  Tick Data employs proprietary data validation, price-filtering, and ticker symbol mapping processes to produce complete, research-ready historical data. From efficient data collection and distribution to seamless integration with third-party analytical software, Tick Data removes the frustration from building and maintaining sets of historical intraday data.

Founded in 1999, Nexa Technologies, Inc. is a provider of online and direct access trading solutions and a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN)

About Options IT (www.options-it.com):

Options IT is the provider of the global Options PIPE private financial cloud services platform, delivering ultra-low latency market data, connectivity and fully managed application hosting services to the banking, trading and investment community. Combining innovative technology solutions with highly experienced technology management and support staff, the Options PIPE® platform, provides a complete financial technology infrastructure as a pay-as-you-go service. The Options PIPE platform delivers the scalability, strength and security of an enterprise platform with the efficiencies of a hosted solution. With offices across North America, Europe and Asia, Options IT provides solutions to more than 120 clients globally.

Options PIPE® Platform Services:

PIPE Velocity 

An ultra-low latency market data, connectivity and application hosting service for all major markets across North America, Europe and Asia

 PIPE Momentum

A fully managed and optimized financial application hosting service for proprietary and third-party applications spanning the front-, middle-, and back-office

 PIPE Core

A complete business technology infrastructure service supporting all desktop and communication technology essential to financial services firms

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WASHINGTON — Tick Data (www.tickdata.com), the market data division of Nexa Technologies, Inc. (www.nexatech.com), a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN – News), announced today that it will now provide daily updates for futures, index and indicator data. This new service is made possible by the release of TickWrite 7, a new version of the TickWrite database management software.

Along with providing daily updates for futures, indices, and indicators, the new software has additional benefits. Key features include:

• A single program for creating custom ASCII files of futures, index, indicator, and equity data.
• A new ASCII-based source file format for all asset classes.
• A scheduler and downloader that work together to automatically download daily updates and generate ASCII output files.
• New futures roll feature, Next Most Active, for more precise continuous futures contract roll-overs.
• Output timestamp in milliseconds when available.
• Ability to generate files of sub-minute bars.
• Enhanced file output options, including filtering by and re-ordering of headers.
• Internet delivery available for more order types and larger orders.
• Capacity to expand the scope and size of the data offering for years to come.
• Soon to follow, a completely redesigned online store that will allow clients to manage subscriptions and place orders for futures, index, indicator, and equity data.

“We are pleased to round out our daily update subscription offering with the addition of futures, index, and indicator data. Our mission has always been to provide research-ready historical intraday time series market data as conveniently as possible, so the combination of more timely data delivery and a more convenient TickWrite are in accord with that mission,” commented Neal Falkenberry, CFA-President of Tick Data. “We will continue to expand the breadth and depth of our data offering and provide more innovative technology to achieve our goal of becoming the world’s central repository of historical intraday market data.”

With more than 25 years of experience collecting, validating, cleaning, and providing historical trade and quote market data, Tick Data is considered a pioneer and leader in the field, with one of the world’s largest databases of historical intraday data.

About Nexa Technologies: www.nexatech.com

Nexa Technologies, Inc. is a provider of online and direct access trading solutions. Founded in 1999, Nexa Technologies is a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. Its comprehensive product set incorporates multi-asset direct access trading systems, FIX-compliant order routing, comprehensive data and market access to European & North American equity, options and derivatives exchanges and ECNs.

Nexa Technologies added historical intraday time series data into its product range in January 2005 when Penson Worldwide acquired Tick Data, Inc. The Tick Data division, which provides clean, reliable historical intraday time series data for the equities and futures markets, employs proprietary compression algorithms, price-filtering techniques, and ticker symbol mapping processes to produce complete, research-ready historical data. From efficient data collection and distribution to seamless integration with third-party analytical software, the Tick Data division removes the frustration from building and maintaining historical databases.’

About Penson Worldwide: www.penson.com

The Penson Worldwide group of companies provides execution, clearing, custody, settlement and technology infrastructure products and services to financial services firms and others servicing the global financial services industry. The Penson Worldwide group of companies includes Penson Financial Services, Inc., Penson Financial Services Canada Inc., Penson Financial Services Ltd., Nexa Technologies, Inc., Penson GHCO, Penson Financial Services Australia Pty Ltd and Penson Asia Limited, among other companies. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Penson has served the clearing needs of the global financial services industry since 1995. Penson Worldwide – Building the Best Clearing and Execution Services Firm in the World.

Penson Financial Services, Inc. is a member of the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Alternext, Chicago Stock Exchange, FINRA, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), OneChicago, the International Securities Exchange (ISE), the NYSE Arca Exchange, the Options Clearing Corp (OCC), the MSRB, NSCC, ICMA, DTC, Euroclear, SIPC and is a participant of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX). Penson Financial Services Canada Inc. is a participating organization with the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Montreal Exchange, the CNQ Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange, is regulated by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, is a member of the CIPF, CDCC and CDS and subscribes to various Canadian ATSs. Penson Financial Services Ltd. is a member of the London Stock Exchange and is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Penson GHCO is a registered Futures Commission Merchant and clearing member at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, London International Financial Futures Exchange, and ICE Futures.

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WASHINGTON, DC (June 10, 2008) – Tick Data (www.tickdata.com), the market data division of Nexa Technologies, Inc. (www.nexatech.com), a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN – News), today announced the addition of Japanese Tick Equity Data to its offering of historical intraday market data. The new Japanese Tick Equity Database includes trade and quote data for equities traded on Japan’s six major stock exchanges back to January 2003. Data will be sourced from Nikkei America, Inc., and will cover equities listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Stock Exchange, Nagoya Stock Exchange, Fukuoka Stock Exchange, Sapporo Stock Exchange and Hercules Market. With more than 20 years of experience collecting, validating, cleaning, and providing historical trade and quote market data, Tick Data is considered a pioneer and leader in the field.

As technological advances and regulatory changes have opened new markets to foreign investment and cross-border trading, interest in Asian markets has increased significantly. Much of this demand comes from algorithmic and automated traders who require historical market data to develop, test, and optimize their models. These traders look to Tick Data to provide research-ready data for their analysis, and Tick Data continues to seek out markets of interest to the world’s automated traders. While this is the first Asian market offered by Tick Data, the firm expects to expand its coverage further into this region in the near future.

“With interest in Asian markets on the rise, and little commercially-available history data for these markets, we are happy to pioneer such a database,” said Neal Falkenberry, SVP of Nexa’s Tick Data division. “It is our goal to assist all traders, including cross-border traders looking for data in foreign markets, to overcome the challenges related to acquiring historical market data. This database, which complements our Pan-European data series, is an important step towards achieving that goal.”

As with all of Tick Data’s equity-based products, the Japanese Tick Equity Database is fully supported with corporate action information, and is cleaned, validated, and mapped using Tick Data’s proprietary method, with updates available on an ongoing basis.

About Nexa Technologies: www.nexatech.com

Nexa Technologies, Inc. is a provider of online and direct access trading solutions. Founded in 1999, Nexa Technologies is an independent subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. Its comprehensive product set incorporates multi-asset direct access trading systems, FIX-compliant order routing, an Order Management System (OMS), comprehensive data and market access to European & North American equity, options and derivatives exchanges and ECNs.

Nexa Technologies added historical intraday time series data into its product range in January 2005 when Penson Worldwide acquired Tick Data, Inc. The Tick Data division, which provides clean, reliable historical intraday time series data for the equities and futures markets, employs proprietary compression algorithms, price-filtering techniques, and ticker symbol mapping processes to produce complete, research-ready historical data. From efficient data collection and distribution to seamless integration with third-party analytical software, the Tick Data division removes the frustration from building and maintaining historical databases.

About Penson Worldwide: www.penson.com

The Penson Worldwide group of companies provides execution, clearing, custody, settlement and technology infrastructure products and services to financial services firms and others servicing the global financial services industry. The Penson Worldwide group of companies includes Penson Financial Services, Inc., Penson Financial Services Canada Inc., Penson Financial Services Ltd., Nexa Technologies, Inc., Penson GHCO, First Capitol Group, LLC and Penson Asia Limited, among other companies. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Penson has served the clearing needs of the global financial services industry since 1995. Penson is the Flexible Choice in Global Financial Services.

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Source: Tick Data

WASHINGTON, DC (April 14, 2008) – Tick Data, (www.tickdata.com), the market data division of Nexa Technologies, Inc. (www.nexatech.com), a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN – News), today announced the addition of Pan-European historical intraday market data to its Tick Equity Database. The new European data offering includes historical and update equity data from exchanges in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Netherlands. With more than 20 years of experience collecting, validating, cleaning, and providing historical trade and quote market data, Tick Data is considered a pioneer and leader in the field.

As cross-border trading becomes more accessible and popular, traders now seek investment opportunities outside of the U.S. The request for additional coverage of European markets has become a client demand. Tick Data has responded to that demand by offering data sets that represent the bulk of European equity trading. All data is exchange-sourced, supported with corporate action information, with updates available on an ongoing basis.

Tick Data’s expanded European exchange list now includes extensive historical trades and quotes from Deutsche Börse, Borsa Italiana, and Bolsa de Madrid. Also included is Euronext, which consists of equity data from Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris. The inception dates vary by exchange and range from 2004 to as far back as 2002. This growing list supplements Tick Data’s previously available London Stock Exchange offering, with trades and quotes dating from 2000.

Neal Falkenberry, CFA-President of Tick Data said, “We are pleased to offer our clients access to data from these active equity exchanges. We remain committed to becoming the world’s central repository for historical intraday market data, and adding data representing over 75% of Europe’s equity market capitalization is a big step towards achieving that goal.”

About Nexa Technologies: www.nexatech.com

Nexa Technologies, Inc. is a provider of online and direct access trading solutions. Founded in 1999, Nexa Technologies is an independent subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. Its comprehensive product set incorporates multi-asset direct access trading systems, FIX-compliant order routing, an Order Management System (OMS), comprehensive data and market access to European & North American equity, options and derivatives exchanges and ECNs.

Nexa Technologies added historical intraday time series data into its product range in January 2005 when Penson Worldwide acquired Tick Data, Inc. The Tick Data division, which provides clean, reliable historical intraday time series data for the equities and futures markets, employs proprietary compression algorithms, price-filtering techniques, and ticker symbol mapping processes to produce complete, research-ready historical data. From efficient data collection and distribution to seamless integration with third-party analytical software, the Tick Data division removes the frustration from building and maintaining historical databases.

About Penson Worldwide: www.penson.com

The Penson Worldwide group of companies provides execution, clearing, custody, settlement and technology infrastructure products and services to financial services firms and others servicing the global financial services industry. The Penson Worldwide group of companies includes Penson Financial Services, Inc., Penson Financial Services Canada Inc., Penson Financial Services Ltd., Nexa Technologies, Inc., Penson GHCO, First Capitol Group, LLC and Penson Asia Limited, among other companies. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Penson has served the clearing needs of the global financial services industry since 1995. Penson is the Flexible Choice in Global Financial Services.

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WASHINGTON, DC (April 16, 2007) – Tick Data, (www.tickdata.com), the market data division of Nexa Technologies, Inc. (www.nexatech.com), a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN), and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced the release of the industry’s first commercially-available research-ready historical tick database for the U.S. equity options market. The new database contains all U.S. equity options data from the consolidated Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) feed dating back to July 2, 2004.

Tick Data and CBOE worked closely together to create the database and its supporting corporate actions, which can be used to design, test and validate algorithmic options trading models. Additionally, the data can be used for pre- and post-trade analysis and optimization of execution strategies.

“In recent years our clients have expressed an increased demand for this product, particularly as attention toward algorithmic and black box trading in equity options has increased,” explained Neal Falkenberry, SVP Tick Data Division, Nexa Technologies, Inc. “However, the sheer volume of options data has always made the prospect of a tick-by-tick historical database a difficult one. Thanks to significant advances in data storage and processing power, and through the diligent work of our development team, we can now offer a research-ready database of historical intraday options data. This development represents a significant step toward our ultimate goal of being the world’s central repository for historical intraday
market data.”

With more than 20 years of experience, Tick Data is considered a pioneer in the field of historical intraday market data. The U.S. equity options market represents the third primary asset class to be covered by Tick Data, which also offers data solutions for Futures and Equity markets. Options in the database are mapped for corporate actions of the underlying stock, including stock splits, cash and stock dividends, and symbol changes. A daily update service will also be available.

“We were very pleased to partner with Tick Data in developing this highly sophisticated database,” said Patrick Fay, CBOE Senior Vice President, Member and Regulatory Services. “Until now, it was difficult to get this type of options data in a ready-to-use, consolidated and clean fashion. The ability for clients to access this data in an efficient and easy-to-use manner is a value that cannot be overstated. We are very excited about the rollout of this product, and we think the industry will be too.”

“The release of this Options database from Tick Data further strengthens Penson’s overall offering in the Futures and Options markets,” said Daniel P. Son, president and co-founder of Nexa’s parent company, Penson Worldwide, Inc. “This new product, plus Penson’s recent acquisition of leading international futures clearer GHCO, demonstrate our ongoing commitment to providing clients across a variety of asset classes with the best-of-breed services, solutions and technology available in the market today.”

About Nexa Technologies: www.nexatech.com

Nexa Technologies, Inc. is a provider of online and direct access trading solutions. Founded in 1999, Nexa Technologies is an independent subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. Its comprehensive product set incorporates multi-asset direct access trading systems, FIX-compliant order routing, an Order Management System (OMS), comprehensive data and market access to European & North American equity, options and derivatives exchanges and ECNs.

Nexa Technologies added historical intraday time series data into its product range in January 2005 when Penson Worldwide acquired Tick Data, Inc. The Tick Data division, which provides clean, reliable historical intraday time series data for the equities and futures markets, employs proprietary compression algorithms, price-filtering techniques, and ticker symbol mapping processes to produce complete, research-ready historical data. From efficient data collection and distribution to seamless integration with third-party analytical software, the Tick Data division removes the frustration from building and maintaining historical databases.

About Penson Worldwide: www.penson.com

The Penson Worldwide group of companies provides execution, clearing, custody, settlement and technology infrastructure products and services to financial services firms and others servicing the global financial services industry. The Penson Worldwide group of companies includes Penson Financial Services, Inc., Penson Financial Services Canada Inc., Penson Financial Services Ltd., Nexa Technologies, Inc., Penson GHCO, First Capitol Group, LLC and Penson Asia Limited, among other companies. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Penson has served the clearing needs of the global financial services industry since 1995. Penson is the Flexible Choice in Global Financial Services.

About Chicago Board Options Exchange: www.CBOE.com

CBOE, the largest U.S. options marketplace and the creator of listed options, is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For additional information about the CBOE and its products, visit the CBOE website at: www.cboe.com.

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Source: Tick Data