EANS-News: Hypoport AG / Extensive interest in the Europace marketplace

In 2009, more than 90 partners used the Europace platform. Many other
— especially regional — players in the market showed a marked
interest in cooperation. The relevance of some of the major players
declined over the same period, which pushed transaction volumes down
temporarily.

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Subtitle: In 2009, more than 90 partners used the Europace platform.
Many other — especially regional — players in the market showed a
marked interest in cooperation. The relevance of some of the major
players declined over the same period, which pushed transaction
volumes down temporarily.

Berlin, (euro adhoc) - 1 February 2010: The Europace platform
attracted extensive interest in the financial services marketplace
last year. 31 new partners opted to use the marketplace for
processing their future transactions. Currently, 93 partners use the
platform, which equates to an increase of 50 percent compared with
the previous year. The number of new product providers, especially,
is strategically important. These increased by 65.4 percent to 43.
According to Thilo Wiegand, Member of the Management Board at
Hypoport AG who is in charge of platform business: "These partners
are bringing a lot of new and competitive products to the platform,
which not only raise the appeal of the platform; they will also help
to balance out any fluctuations in future transaction volumes — such
as those witnessed last year as the business of some of the major
partners slumped. Over the long term, however, the potential offered
by these partners on the platform will have much wider-reaching
benefits than just balancing out volumes", according to Wiegand. The
structure of the product providers is shifting away from the
dominance of a few major players and towards a colourful mixture
comprised of numerous providers, some of which operate on a regional
basis only.

Year on year, transaction volumes dipped by 12 percent to Euro 12.9
billion in 2009 as some of the major product providers weakened.
Mortgage financing, which still accounts for the lion´s share of the
platform volume, declined by 15.5 percent to Euro 11.4 billion. By
contrast, the volume of personal loans increased by 15.8 percent to
Euro 1.3 billion, and accounted for about 10 percent of total volume.
Moreover, the number of personal loans was higher than the number of
mortgage financing transactions for the first time ever. Building
society contracts — the most recent category to join the product
range — also witnessed satisfactory development, posting an increase
of 486 percent to their current volume of Euro 211 million.

On balance, Wiegand is very satisfied: "While the crisis may have
affected our transaction volumes last year, it did not have any
adverse impact on our strategic positioning nor on the level of
interest shown in the financial marketplace. Quite the opposite: We
have registered a marked increase in the commitment to our platform
solutions." This was demonstrated not just by the record number of
participants at the Genopace conference for Cooperative banks and
Raiffeisenbanks in September. At "Finanzmarktplatz für Sparkassen"
(FINMAS) — an event that provides information on the financial
marketplace for savings banks — both speakers and visitors stressed
the strategic importance of internet-based sales solutions for
savings banks. No doubt the sector will be avidly discussing
corresponding strategies — and the revolutionary impact they are
having on the markets — again at the 15th Europace Conference in
February. According to Wiegand: "All of these developments are clear
signals that the magnetic attraction of the platform — the so-called
marketplace effect — is steadily growing."

About Hypoport AG Hypoport Group is an internet-based all-round
financial services provider based in Berlin. The Group employs some
450 people. The company has been listed in the Prime Standard on
Deutsche Börse since the end of 2007. Its business model consists of
two reciprocally beneficial pillars - the sale of financial products
(Dr. Klein & Co. AG) and the provision of a platform for transacting
financial products via the internet. Hypoport operates the EUROPACE
B2B financial marketplace, which is the largest German online
platform for transacting financing products. A fully integrated
system links more than 40 product providers with several thousand
financial advisors, thus enabling the quick and direct agreement of
contracts. The platform's highly automated processes generate
considerable cost benefits. Nowadays, EUROPACE processes some 400
financing transactions every day. Hypoport AG publishes the monthly
house price index (HPX) based on real transaction data.

A list of the banks and service providers that use the platform can
be downloaded from www.hypoport.de, as can the Annual Report 2008.

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Further inquiry note:

Michaela Reimann

Group Communications Manager

Telefon: +49 (0) 30 42086 1936

E-Mail: michaela.reimann@hypoport.de

Branche: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: DE0005493365
WKN: 549336
Börsen: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard