''Investor Education Developments in the EU and Around the Globe'' Conference Takes Place in Madrid October 1-2, 2007

More than 100 investor education experts from around the world
will gather October 1-2, 2007 at the first joint investor education
conference of the International Forum for Investor Education (IFIE)
and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

The IFIE/IOSCO conference will take place at the Bolsas y Mercados
Espanoles (BME), Plaza de la Lealtad 1, Madrid, Spain. Major investor
education initiatives around the globe - including the implications of
the November 1st deadline for the EU Markets in Financial Instruments
Directive (MiFID) -- will be highlighted in this major event bringing
together experts from the world's leading regulatory organizations,
stock exchanges, and financial firms.

Events at the conference will be sponsored by the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Securities Industry and
Financial Markets Association, The Bond Market Foundation, CSI Global
Education Inc. (formerly Canadian Securities Institute), and the
Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles. The World Federation of Exchanges is the
program advisor for the event.

The major speakers for the conference are: FINRA CEO Mary L.
Schapiro; International Organization of Securities Commissions
Technical Committee Chairman and Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF)
Chairman Michel Prada; Securities Industry and Financial Markets
Association Senior Managing Director for Europe and Asia Karsten
Moller; IOSCO Secretary General Philippe Richard; International Forum
for Investor Education Chairman and FINRA Senior Vice President and
Managing Director of International Affairs and Services Nick
Bannister; Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman M.
Damodaran; and BME Chairman and CEO D. Antonio J. Zoido Martinez.

Among the panelists who will make presentations are the following:
Mr. Shin Akamine, Senior Manager, CSR Promotion, Tokyo Stock Exchange;
Mr. Gerry Anderson, Deputy Executive Officer, Financial Services Board
(South Africa); Mr. Alan Andreasen, Executive Director and Professor,
Social Marketing Institute, Georgetown University (U.S.); Mr. Nick
Bannister, Chairman, IFIE and Senior Vice President and Managing
Director of International Affairs and Services, FINRA (UK); Mr. Paul
Borque, Senior Vice President, Member Regulation, Investment Dealers
Association of Canada; Mr. Jonathan Chapman, Head of Financial
Capability Department, Financial Services Authority (UK); Mr. Andrew
Crain, former Director of International Relations, Australian
Securities & Investments Commission, and now Senior Advisor, External
Relations, Public Interest Oversight Board (Madrid); Ms. Dara Duguay,
Director, Office of Financial Education, Citigroup (U.S.); Ms. Kathryn
Edmundson, Executive Director, The Bond Market Foundation (U.S.); Mr.
Rafael Febres-Cordero, Managing Director for Fidelity International in
Southern Europe and Latin America, Fidelity International (Spain); Mr.
John Gannon, Senior Vice President for Investor Education, FINRA
(U.S.); Ms. Rachel Gosling, Deputy Executive Director, IFS School of
Finance (UK); Mr. Bertrand Huet-Delaherse, Senior Regulatory Counsel,
SIFMA Europe (UK); Ms. Robyn Grew, Managing Director, Compliance,
Barclays (UK); Mr. Timothy R. Hailes, Managing Director & Associate
General Counsel, JP Morgan (UK); Mr. Steve Horan, Director, Private
Wealth and Investor Education, CFA Institute (U.S.); Mr. Kun Ho Hwang,
Chairman, Korea Securities Dealers Association; Mr. Norio Inomata,
General Manager, Securities Education Division, Japan Securities
Dealers Association; Mr. Harman Korte, Managing Director, Netherlands
Authority for the Financial Markets; Dr. Ahmed Saad Abdel Latif,
Chairman, Capital Market Authority (Egypt); Ms. Wong Sau Ngan, General
Counsel, Securities Commission (Malaysia); Ms. Victoria Powell,
Communication Director, Committee of European Securities Regulators
(France); Mr. Jose Alexandre Cavalcanti Vasco, Superintendent (Head of
the Investor Assistance and Education Department), Comissao de Valores
Mobiliarios - CVM (Brazil); Ms. Tanya Verrier, Independent Consumer
Expert, FIN-USE (invited, Belgium); Ms. Lois Vitt, Chair and Founding
Director, Institute for Socio-Financial Studies (U.S.); Ms. Gerri
Walsh, Associate Vice President for Investor Education, FINRA (U.S.);
Ms. Roberta Wilton, President and CEO, CSI Global Education Inc.; and
Ms. Maria Jose Gomez Yubero, Director of Investors, Comision Nacional
del Mercado de Valores (Spain).

For updated program details, please go to http://www.ifie.org on
the Web.

ABOUT THE GROUPS

Chartered in 2005, the International Forum for Investor Education
(http://www.ifie.org) is a unique alliance that brings together
private sector and public sector providers of investor education to
improve the global standards for investor education.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions
(http://wwww.iosco.org) is recognized as the international standard
setter for securities markets. The Organization's wide membership
regulates more than 90 percent of the world's securities markets and
IOSCO is the world's most important international cooperative forum
for securities regulatory agencies. IOSCO members regulate more than
100 jurisdictions and the Organization's membership is steadily
growing.