London, UK 2^nd April 2009 – B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced that SmartStream have entered TLM Corporate Actions into the 2009 Corporate Actions Systems Benchmarking project.

Gary Wright, C.E.O., B.I.S.S. Research and creator of the B.I.S.S. business benchmarking concept said “SmartStream have been beavering away on TLM to produce what is to all intents and purposes a brand new corporate actions system for the market to get excited about.

We are anticipating that this new upgraded system will prove to be spectacular and will be examined comprehensively through the B.I.S.S. benchmarking process.

With our philosophy of always ensuring that the markets current and future requirements are met, the benchmarks have been updated again this year and will prove a stern test for the systems entering and therefore only those systems that have the complete confidence of the vendors have entered.”

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