Record-breaking Quarter on Catalyst Bond Market

PRESS RELEASE

· 20 new issuers on the Catalyst bond market in Q3 2011.
· Growing international importance of the Catalyst bond market.

The exchange-traded bonds market continues to grow dynamically as companies increasingly decide to issue bonds. Year to date, no less than 45 issuers have introduced bonds to trading on Catalyst, including 20 issuers in Q3 2011 alone.

Figure shows the number of issuers and instruments listed on Catalyst in 2011.

 Source: GPW.

Catalyst opened in September 2009 in order to create an organised, transparent and safe trading market for fixed-income instruments issued by companies and local governments in Poland. Catalyst is comprised of four trading platforms. Two platforms are operated by the WSE as a regulated market and an alternative trading system, where the trading unit is one bond; the other two markets are operated by BondSpot under the same formula, where the trading unit is at least PLN 100 thousand.