Manage your securities listing with a trusted partner · Foreign investors account for majority of daily trading volume 33 foreign brokerages and 23 Norwegian. Listing value added

OSLO BØRS VPS Issuer Products

Manage your securities listing with a trusted partner

At a glance 2009

Number of securities accounts

1 683 935

Number of registered companies

1419

NOK 6.1 billion daily turnover equities

47 of 239 listed companies domiciled outside Norway

Foreign investors account for majority of daily trading volume

33 foreign brokerages and 23 Norwegian

Listing value added services

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Oslo Børs has been the only regulated market place and dominant player for securities trading in Norway for the past 190 years. From its beginnings as a place to trade currency and promissory notes, the exchange has since grown to become a desired listing place for some of the largest shipping, energy and seafood companies in the world.

Its recent merger with the Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS) to create Oslo Børs VPSgives issuers a complete and integrated array of services and products.

Listing a company is a big decision. The move to seek new capital and expand a company’s shareholder base involves valuable time and resources. Keeping track of it shouldn’t. Oslo Børs VPS offers issuers a suite of services to help companies monitor their listing, meet financial regulations, and improve their investor relations.

Products and services throughout your listing lifecycle

Oslo Børs VPS is one of the few securities marketplaces in the world able to offer issuers such a complete line of value adding services along the whole process, from registry to trade and settlements, all under the same roof. This saves times and resources for issuers so they can focus on what matters most, running their company.

The goal is simple. Oslo Børs VPS wants to make it easier for companies to list on Oslo Børs and help them meet the regulatory hurdles and challenges of financial reporting by providing a stable system that issuers can trust from an exchange that has been there since the beginning.

We believe it is important for issuers to uphold thehighest standards in their relationship with shareholders and regulatory authorities. That’s why it is part of our job to offer the most professional, secure and reliable system available.

We invite you to take contact with our advisors to find out how Oslo Børs VPS can help you to best manage your listed security. Listed companies strive to spend their money wisely. We recommend them to do so withtheir time as well.

Bente A. Landsnes, Oslo Børs VPS President

Corporate Actions

DividendsAcquisitionsMergersIssuers and Secondary OfferingsEmployee Share Savings Programme

Investor Relations

Company ServicesNominee IDElectronic ReportsIR Web ModulesNews ServiceGeneral Meeting

Trade

Company Performance Report

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As of 2008, companies listed on Oslo Børs are solely responsible for distributing all notifiable information. Oslo Børs’ distribution service satisfies all needs related to reporting directives and places a high focus on quality and stability to ensure global and simultaneous spread of information.

Oslo Børs has teamed up with Cision, a leading global partner in media intelligence, to provide a comprehensive distribution service. Companies can choose to distribute from two different user interfaces, NewsPoint or CisionPoint.

Helps distribute notifiable information and share sensitive news in real-time to the market

News Service

NewsPoint

Through Oslo Børs, listed companies can simultaneously distribute announcements to the market, officially appointed mechanism (OAM), and Oslo Børs NewsWeb. NewsPoint publicises and distributes the announcements through the following channels:

• Oslo Børs Distribution Network Targeted distribution of announcements to about 45,000 dedicated subscribers of information on the Norwegian market via large market data vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg and SIX.

• Oslo Børs Trading System Real-time distribution through the trading system to 58 brokerages and their customers. Of these, 35 are international brokerages.

CisionPoint

Cision has offices in Europe, North America and Asia and partners in 125 countries. Key functionalities with CisionPoint include:

• Integrated solution for managing media and financial contacts • Dissemination tool that adheres to all financial filing regulations • User-friendly interface • Full search engine optimisation features with ability to tag releases via CisionWire • Global partnership with Business Wire, enabling exclusive access to international newswire networks • Simultaneous publication of content to social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr

www.oslobors.no, click Products and services

We use CisionPoint to distribute news to the market. As Norway’s largest financial services group with total combined assets of NOK 2,100 billion and more than 47,000 shareholders, it was important to choose a system that we could implement quickly and easily and which helps us distribute our messages to those we need to reach. We are satisfied with the functionality and support that CisionPoint provides.

Per Sagbakken

Head of IR/Long Term FundingDnBNOR ASA

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Contact mail: [email protected] tel: +47 22 34 18 02

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Oslo Børs Company Performance Report gives corporate investor relations managers a complete insight into the trading activity of the company’s listed securities, such as share liquidity key figures, historical prices, trade volumes and broker activity. The report includes both table and graphical presentations.

Helps management and investor relations department keep an eye on trading activity

Company Performance Report

Company Performance Report Monthly

The monthly report provides daily trade and liquidity information for the previous and current year for a listed company.

• Key figures for share liquidity, historical prices and trade volumes • Quick overview of the most used liquidity data, graphs, yearly turnover, daily average turnover and broker market shares • Delivered on the first trading day of each month

Company Performance Report Daily

The report provides an insight into the volume of trades on a daily basis and the largest buyers and sellers.

• Detailed data such as key figures on share liquidity and trade details • Complete trade log for that trading day • Broker ranking showing the top 15 buyers and sellers • Delivered in the evening of each trading day • Subscribers to the daily report also receive the monthly reports

www.oslobors.no, click Products and services

When our company in September 2009 announced a $800m global agreement with Bayer for development and commercialisation of Alpharadin, our daily share trading volume rose ten fold to more than 2 million. Subscribing to Company Performance Report Daily has been a good tool for Algeta to keep track of trading and liquidity in our stock.

Øystein Soug

Chief Financial OfficerAlgeta ASA

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Oslo Market Solutions’ IR Web Modules gives a complete and up-to-date picture of the company’s share value and ownership structure via continuous data feeds from Oslo Børs and VPS.

Using accessible data on the company’s share from Oslo Børs, Oslo Axess and the Norwegian Securities Dealers Association, IR Web Modules publishes updated share prices, order book, broker statistics, financial calendar, dividends, notifications, press releases and last trades.

The data is seamlessly integrated into the company’s existing web page. There is a standard solution available for companies wanting to use the most common modules. Alternatively, companies can freely adjust layout and information to fit their web pages.

Graphics provide

• Five years’ historical data • Comparisons with international indices, related shares, financial instruments • Overview of the 20 largest shareholders, updated weekly (add-on service) • Adjustable layout

www.oslomarketsolutions.no

Lets companies reliably publish securities data on their web page

IR Web Modules

Oslo Market Solutions offers one of the most cost effective IR Web Modules in the market. The solution was very easy to implement technically on our website, it has excellent functionality to adapt to our website’s design and has proven to be extremely reliable.

Stefan Solberg

Head of Investor RelationsNorsk Hydro ASA

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Identifies beneficial owners and fund managers holding securities registered in nominee accounts

Keeping track of foreign investors with nominee accounts in Norwegian registered securities is an increasing challenge for corporate actions and maintaining good investor relations.

Oslo Børs VPS has teamed up with London-based Richard Davies Investor Relations (RD:IR) to offer Nominee ID, a service for companies that want to identify underlying shareholders not appearing in the company’s VPS shareholder registry.

The partnership takes advantage of VPS’ expertise within ownership records and product management and Richard Davies Investor Relations’ global network of contacts and competent analysis team.

The service is available at three levels through the web-based customer portal IR InTouch. In addition, there is a subscription available to IR InTouch’s advanced customer relationship management (CRM) system.

IR InTouch

• Identifies domestic and international shareholders • Relates beneficial owners to each nominee account • Reveals underlying relationships between owners and fund managers • Reveals investor’s country of domicile, investment strategy, investor type • Delivers reports in user-friendly customer portal

IR InTouch CRM

• Helps issuers profile their company to institutional investors • Gets access to a large international investor database • Mass e-mails target groups • Co-ordinates investor meetings

Nominee ID


It is important as ever for us to know who are our shareholders. Vps’ Nominee ID has provided us with an efficient and reasonably priced way of resolving that issue.

Jo Christian Steigedal

Direktør Investor RelationsSCHIBSTED ASA

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The main role of the Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS) is to function as a shareholder register for Norwegian and foreign companies listed on Oslo Børs and Oslo Axess. VPS also makes it easier for companies to obtain capital and keep tabs on their shareholders.

Company Services is a web solution that gives efficient and easy access to detailed information about the company’s shareholders. For example, it provides issuers with updated data on the company’s shareholders and daily updates on changes in investor stockholdings and composition, as well as information on the company’s corporate actions.

The services are offered at three different levels based on a company’s information needs:

Gives easy and efficient access to detailed information about shareholders

Basic Company

• Included in the VPS registration • Provides a list of 20 largest shareholders, percentage of share capital, shareholding and citizenship • Details on purchases and sales for the last 24 hours

Active Company

• Additional access to the company’s own registry • Provides mailing lists • Detailed shareholder movements over last three days

Professional Company

• Particularly suited for investor relations/shareholder services • Daily overview of events and changes in ownership structure • Access to outlet of the owner register • Detailed shareholder movements dating back to two years • Solution for internal control of share purchase/sale

Added benefit

As a Company Services subscriber, the following four services can be also purchased: • General Meeting • Employee Share Savings Programme • Electronic Reports

Company Services


We use Company Services to provide professional shareholder services to our investors, as well as shareholder reports to our board of directors and management. Moreover, our investor relations team usesit to analyse transactions, changes inshareholdings, and historical shareholdings.

Anne Synnøve Wilhelmsen

Shareholder servicesStorebrand ASA

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The General Meeting service saves time and resources for a company by giving an overview of attendance and proxies, while enabling shareholders to notify of their attendance, register a proxy and pre-vote via Investor Services or the company’s home page.

General Meeting will make arrangements and carry out much of the preparatory work ahead of the Annual General Meeting, as well as provide assistance at the AGM itself.

General MeetingFacilitates registration and organisation of Annual General Meetings

Employee Share Savings ProgrammeSimplifies administrative tasks of a share-based incentive scheme

Electronic ReportsReplaces printing and distribution of documents with electronic delivery

Share-based incentive schemes are part of a new business trend to encourage employees to take ownership in their company.

Employee Share Savings Programme is suited for companies that want to regularly grant employees savings contributions in the company’s shares, either annually or periodically throughout the year.

Its unique integration with other VPS systems permits opening of a VPS account online, employee access to Investor Services, and integration with Company Services. The solution can be integrated into a company’s intranet so that employees can see their savings record at any given point in time.

Electronic distribution has become increasingly more common in investor relations. It is time and cost saving, as well as environmentally beneficial.

Shareholders who want to receive electronic reports will get a notice via e-mail as soon as the report is available through Investor Services. Investors who prefer to receive paper versions will still have this option.

Electronic Reports is available only to Company Services’ Active or Professional Company level subscribers.

Features • Pre-vote or register online • Register receipts of notifications • Complete overview of number of shares/percentage at AGM • List of registered attendance/proxies at AGM • Quick count of votes

Features • Automatic calculation and allocation of shares • Bonus programme with lock-in period • Set-up of fictive IDs for foreign employees • Backup of all transactions and historical data • Correct tax reporting

Features • Annual, half-yearly, quarterly, monthly and weekly reports • Press releases • Notices of annual general meetings • Prospectuses • Market information

Additional servicesCompany Services


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VPS provides an all-inclusive service in which both the transfer of shares and settlement for the transfer are included.

By co-operating with the VPS registrar on corporate actions, a company can gain information and an overview of issues and secondary offerings, redemption of warrants, share splits, mergers, and dividends, among other corporate actions.

Corporate Actions also allows investors or employees to subscribe to issues and secondary offerings via the Internet.

Executes corporate actions and allowsonline share subscription

Issues and Secondary Offerings

VPS provides a routine that includes everything from the transfer of subscription rights to the investor’s VPS accounts where existing shareholders have pre-emptive rights, registration of subscriptions, debiting investors, and finally delivery of shares/bonds once they have been paid for.

The routine also includes calculation of commission to set rates for the different customer categories. Other commission rates can also be registered, both in amount and as a percentage.

Benefits

• Subscribe to share issues through advanced online application • Receive correct entitlement of shares/cash settlement • Accurate information on change notifications and investor reports • Easier access to calculation of gains/losses on sale of shares

Corporate Actions

Issues and secondary offering

Subscribing via the Internet

Acquisitions

Compulsory redemption, minority shareholders

Compulsory acquisition of small shareholdings

Redemption of warrants

Withdrawal from share premium

Repayment of share capital

CorporateActions

Dividends

Scrip issues

Demergers

Mergers

Share splitsReverse share splits

Oslo Bors VPS’ highly efficient VPS processing system for cash and securities distribution enables Nordea Issuer Services to focus on the needs of its clients, such as advisory services for technical support and planning of corporate actions.

The high demand for a well-managed shareholder savings programme has been well received by our clients. We have received positive feedback from our clients from using the VPS system to communicate electronically with securities holders because of its time saving benefits. The new solution on general meetings is also a great example of how VPS helps us meet market requirements.

Wegard Bommo

Head of Issuer Services Norway Nordea Bank Norge ASA

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OSLO BøRS VPS ASAP.O. Box 460 SentrumNO-0105 Oslo

www.obvps.no

An internationally recognised exchange market for listing and trading shares, bonds, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and derivatives. Oslo Axess is a fully regulated market for smaller

companies with fewer owners.

www.oslobors.no

(Norwegian Central Securities Depository) Registration of ownership in

securities and extended transfer agency services for fund managers/distributors.

www.vps.no

Online solutions for securities trading and real-time

presentation of market data.

www.oslomarketsolutions.no

Clearing and settlement of listed and unlisted securities and central counter-party for

financial derivatives.

www.osloclearing.no

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