Millennium bcp is a new issuer of Certificates on NYSE Bank offers Certificates on 22 underlying assets

Lisbon, Wednesday 18 August 2010 – As of today, Millennium bcp is a new issuer of Certificates on NYSE . The Certificates will be listed on the Lisbon and will be available for trading during the continuous trading sessions.

Initially, the following certificates will be admitted to trading on NYSE Euronext Lisbon: 16 Certificates on stock indexes (CAC 40, DAX, , IBEX 35, FTSE 100, DJ Industrial Average, MSCI Emerging Markets, Nikkei 225, PSI 20, S&P 500, WIG 20, DJ EURO STOXX Banks, DJ EURO STOXX Telecommunications, DJ STOXX Basic Resources, DJ STOXX Utilities, and FTSE EPRA/NAREIT), 3 Certificates on (Gold, Brent Crude Futures and Wheat Futures), and 3 Certificates on baskets of stocks (Millennium bcp Value & Growth EU, Millennium bcp Value & Growth US and Millennium bcp Technical EU). In the coming months, investors will have access to the complete range of products issued by Millennium bcp.

“The admission of a new issuer like Millennium bcp to the “Warrants & Certificates” market demonstrates the efficiency of our market model and will enable investors to access a wider range of investments”, said Miguel Geraldes, Head of Markets – Cash & Listing, NYSE Euronext Lisbon.

Luís Feria, Head of Equities of Millennium bcp, stated: “Maintaining an attitude of constant innovation, Millennium bcp has extended the issuance of Certificates to different asset classes. Admission to trading on NYSE Euronext Lisbon, which has nearly all Portuguese banks as members, will provide national investors with access to these important tools that enable a diversification of investments in stock markets."

Certificates are securities that replicate continuous changes in the value of its reference asset. These financial instruments may be used either for long-term investment, taking advantage of diversification implicit in indexing, or for 'day-trading' taking advantage of the ‘intraday’ variations.

Contacts:

NYSE Euronext Lisbon – Paula Cordeiro (+351.96.40.46.778) Millennium bcp – Erik Burns (+351 211 131 242)

About Millennium bcp:

Millennium bcp is 's leading private financial group and is included in key national and international stock market indices, in particular the Euronext PSI , PSI 20, DJ Eurostoxx banks, Bebanks and , of the Lisbon, , and Stock Exchanges. Millennium bcp has an international retail network of more than 1,800 units, all trading under the Millennium brand, with a total of more than 21,000 employees. Millennium bcp launched its Certificates program in 2002 and its Warrants program in 2004, and today remains the only Portuguese issuer of these financial instruments. Millennium acts as Market Maker for these instruments, providing buy and sell orders on a permanent basis to guarantee liquidity and transparency for its products.

About NYSE Euronext:

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one- third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.