EANS-News: Hypoport AG / EUROPACE: exceeds 2011 volume in just nine months / German marketplace for financial products paves the way for the future

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Berlin, 15 October 2012 (euro adhoc) - The volume of transactions
completed via Germany's largest marketplace for financial products
amounted to around EUR22 billion in the first nine months of 2012,
exceeding the EUR21 billion generated in 2011 as a whole. The online
financial marketplace boosts the processing efficiency of its
partners - banks, building finance associations, insurers and
financial product distributors - and is gaining increasing importance
as a management tool.

"Fierce competition, growing regulatory requirements and highly
volatile funding conditions mean product suppliers and financial
service providers need to manage their loan business on the basis of
reliable, up-to-the-minute and granular information," said Thilo
Wiegand, a member of Europace AG's Management Board. "If they fail to
recognise the importance of the financial platform now, they will not
be able to satisfy legislators' demands, will incur higher costs and
will reach fewer customers in future." Financial product distributors
who use the platform to offer customers the best possible product for
their needs from across the full range of providers are steadily
gaining market share and come out top in industry tests and
comparisons of conditions. Over the past nine months, 25 further
financial institutions and partner organisations decided to sign up
to the platform and all its benefits.

The volume of transactions increased by 17 per cent year on year to a
total of EUR7.22 billion in the third quarter of 2012 (Q3 2011:
EUR6.17 billion). In the first nine months of 2012, the volume of
transactions rose by 46 per cent to EUR21.80 billion compared with
the same period last year (Q1-Q3 2011: EUR14.93 billion). The volume
of mortgage finance transactions advanced by 12 per cent to EUR5.58
billion for the period July to September (Q3 2011: EUR4.98 billion).
In the third quarter of 2012, the volume of personal loan
transactions was up by around 8 per cent on the same period of 2011
at EUR0.31 billion (Q3 2011: EUR0.29 billion). Building finance
products generated a volume of EUR1.34 billion, equating to an
increase of 46 per cent compared with the same period of last year
(Q3 2011: EUR0.91 billion).

Information on Europace AG Europace AG operates EUROPACE, which is an
online B2B financial marketplace and the largest German transaction
platform offering mortgages, building finance products and personal
loans. A fully integrated system links roughly 190 partners - banks,
insurers and financial product distributors. Several thousand users
execute over 20,000 transactions worth a total of up to EUR3 billion
on EUROPACE every month. Based in Berlin, Europace AG is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Hypoport AG, which employs more than 500 people
and is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Further inquiry note:
Michaela Reimann
Press spokesperson
Telefon: +49 (0) 30 42086 1936
E-Mail: michaela.reimann@hypoport.de

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company: Hypoport AG
Klosterstraße 71
D-10179 Berlin
phone: +49(0)30 42086-0
FAX: +49(0)30 42086-1999
mail: ir@hypoport.de
WWW: http://www.hypoport.de
sector: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: DE0005493365
indexes: CDAX, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English