[December 12, 2012]

Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions wins DSF Markets

Orange (News - Alert) Business Services - Trading Solutions, the leader in voice and electronic trading infrastructure and services for the trading communities today announced that DSF Markets, the investment services company, has deployed Open Trade and a voice recording system in its Paris office. The combined, managed service solution has been live since January 2012 and provides a fast and efficient trading experience for the company's shares, stocks and bond derivatives brokers.

"Open Trade is a trusted solution in use across trading floors globally and has a strong reputation for being a dependable trading assistant. The simplicity, ease of use and intuitive nature of the smart turret was a very attractive option and made the decision to switch to Open Trade very easy for us," said Gilles Aupin, CEO at DSF Markets. We have had a strong working relationship with Trading Solutions for a number of years now and their exceptional customer service and reliability is second to none.

Quick to deploy, the Open Trade smart turret provides DSF Markets with a powerful multimedia trading tool. In addition an integrated recording capability ensures compliance with industry regulations. The intuitive turrets are easy to use, enabling DSF Markets employees to work more efficiently, and in turn is significantly improving end-user customer service.

Speed, simplicity and the ability to comply with industry regulations is absolutely essential in today's trading environment. We are delighted that DSF Markets has selected our Open Trade and voice recording solution and we are able to support all of their requirements in one integrated application" said Raphaël Guilley, vice president of France & Italy at Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions.

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About Orange

France Telecom (News - Alert)-Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with 172,000 employees worldwide and sales of 45.3 billion euros in 2011. Present in 35 countries, the Group had a customer base of 226 million customers at 31 December 2011, including 147 million customers under the Orange brand, the Grou's single brand for internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates. For more information visit: www.orange.com or www.orange-innovation.tv

About Orange Business Services (News - Alert)

Orange Business Services, the France Telecom Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, is a leading global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. With the world's largest, seamless network for voice and data, Orange Business Services reaches 220 countries and territories with local support in an additional 166. Thousands of enterprise customers and 1.4 million users rely on Orange Business Services international platform for communicating and conducting business. Learn more at www.orangebusiness.com

About Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions

a single source of innovation.

Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions (Trading Solutions) is a leading provider of convergent voice and electronic trading infrastructure and services for the trading communities. It is an international subsidiary of the Orange Group, employing over 450 people in the major financial centres across the globe including Beijing, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo and Zurich. The company is supported by a global partner network of distributors in 50 countries offering customers 24/7 service.

Trading Solutions has more than 45 years' experience of working with the financial services trading industry. Focusing on building long-term partnerships with customers, the company brings innovative solutions and the highest quality services to the trading community. It provides optimised solutions over its dedicated trading network to a community of more than 2,000 network member organisations, encompassing buy-side and sell side institutions and trading venues.

Trading Solutions also offers flexible trading products and services including state of the art, unified voice trading solutions. Its next generation Open Trade turrets feature programmable user interfaces, touchscreens and voice/instant messaging recording solutions. Open Trade was named 'best innovation by an IT or software firm' in the trading and execution category in the FOW Awards 2011 and Trading Solutions was recognised as a Financial-i 'leader in innovation' two years running in 2010 and 2011, for its IP network offering.

France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange.

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