EANS-News: Hypoport AG / Europace: Almost EUR15 billion in first half of 2012 Increase in usage numbers is reflected in transaction volume

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Berlin (euro adhoc) - Press release

Volume of transactions in Q2 2012

EUROPACE: Almost E15 billion in first half of 2012
Increase in usage numbers is reflected in transaction volume

Berlin, 18 July 2012: Transactions with a combined value of E7.33
billion were processed on the Europace financial marketplace platform
in the second quarter of 2012. The increase of 57 per cent on the
same period of last year is attributable to a significant increase in
the number of transactions involving mortgage finance and building
finance products.

"The original division of functions between financial product
distributors and product suppliers has become increasingly blurred.
Banks, insurance companies and building finance associations are
increasingly taking advantage of the opportunities offered by
Europace to tailor their financing transactions flexibly in
accordance with their own specific needs, objectives and policies.
The primary consideration is to deliver what the customer wants,"
commented Thilo Wiegand, a member of Europace AG's Management Board.
This leads to increased usage of the marketplace. The fact that
financing terms for domestic properties in Germany remain extremely
favourable is also driving up the level of business. The volume of
transactions processed on Europace increased by 57 per cent on the
same period of last year to a total of E7.33 billion (Q2 2011: E4.63
billion). In the first half of 2012, the same volume of business has
been brokered via Europace as during the entire year in 2010.

Compared to the same period in 2011, the volume of mortgage finance
transactions increased by 56 per cent to E5.84 billion (Q2 2011:
E3.67 billion). The volume of personal loan transactions was down by
around E30 million on the same period of the previous year at E0.28
billion (Q2 2011: E0.31 billion). Building finance products
contributed E1.21 billion to the total volume. In comparison with the
same period of 2011, the volume of building finance transactions
increased by 93 per cent (Q1 2011: E0.65 billion).

The press release could be downloaded on the following website:
www.tinyurl.com/volume-of-transactions

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 180 partners - banks,
insurers and financial product distributors. Several thousand users
execute over 20,000 transactions worth a total of up to E3 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