Press Release

Bucharest - 20 martie 2012 - INTL FCStone is pleased to be cooperating in the one day commodity price risk management seminar in Bucharest on March 27th, 2012 at the Radisson BLU hotel. The event is being organized with the assistance of the CME Group and NBI Financial in Romania. The goal of the event is to introduce Romanian agricultural companies to the tools of the futures markets and how to utilize them to create risk management and hedging programs. The curriculum will focus on the basics of futures markets, their function and structure, introduction into futures and options contracts, and how to utilize these tools to reduce a company’s exposure and risk to changes in the commodity prices as well as changes in currency rates. Presenters will include Rich Jelinek from CME, Alinda Banica from NBI Financial, Ina Patrascu and Daniel Hofstad from INTL FCStone.

INTL FCStone Inc. is a Fortune 500 company, providing customers across the globe with execution and advisory services in commodities, capital markets, currencies, asset management and more.

INTL FCStone’s customers include the producers, processors and end users of virtually every major traded commodity; commercial counter-parties; governmental, non-governmental and charitable organizations; institutional investors; brokers; professional traders; commercial banks; and major investment banks.

Contact details: Rich Jelinek at richard.jelinek@cmegroup.com, Daniel Hofstad at dan.hofstad@intlfcstone.com and Alinda Banica at alinda@nbifinancial.ro .

FCStone Commodity Services Europe Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Any information to be given by FCStone Europe at this Seminar is intended to be for general information purposes only and shall not constitute any investment advice or offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy any security.

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