LHV Bank to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell


ADVISORY, July 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

LHV Bank, the largest broker on NASDAQ OMX Baltic stock exchanges, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.

In honor of the occasion, Ivars Bergmanis, Head of Institutional Markets will ring the Closing Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET     

Contact:
Ivars Bergmanis
+3726802720
ivars.bergmanis@lhv.ee

NASDAQ MarketSite:
Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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Webcast:

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About LHV Bank:

LHV was founded in 1999 by Rain Lõhmus and Andres Viisemann, two founders of the biggest commercial bank in the Baltics -Hansabank. The bank has been operating as LHV Bank since 2009. LHV Bank has branches in all the capitals of the Baltic region - Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and in Finland's capital - Helsinki. LHV has over 130 employees. LHV's services are used by more than 25,000 clients in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and by 8,000 clients in Finland. LHV's second pillar pension funds have nearly 100,000 clients. That is the third largest market share in Estonia.

In comparison with other banks, LHV Bank is more focused on growing clients' money and managing their investments. LHV Bank is the largest broker on NASDAQ OMX Baltic stock exchanges.

LHV's goal is to encourage people to invest their money and to gain a better knowledge of the investment world. The bank has launched an annual series of seminars called Investment School and a virtual equity game Stock Shark. LHV publishes Estonia's largest investment magazine Investeeri and manages the most active money market portal in Estonia.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $6.2 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily.  Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century.  To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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