Alan van Griethuysen appointed President of the Association of Futures Markets

Amsterdam - NYSE Euronext today announced that Alan van Griethuysen has been named President of the Association of Futures Markets (AFM).

The Association of Futures Markets (AFM) is an international non-profit organization that was founded in 1998. The prime objective of the Association is to globally promote and encourage the establishment of new derivative markets. To this end, the AFM organizes international conferences to promote communication among AFM-members, to strengthen their relationship and to transfer information and experience among them. Currently this organization has 31 members. NYSE Euronext is one of the founders of this association.

Alan van Griethuysen is Executive Director Regional Business Head for Asia and Benelux of NYSE Euronext.

More information on the Association of Futures Markets: www.afmorg.net

About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company’s exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext’s equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world’s equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world’s second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com