The FINANCIAL -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) on March 4 launched its WebCenter360 Banking Suite, a competitively priced investor relations website solution built for global, regional and community banks.

NASDAQ announced that the WebCenter360 Banking Suite will be powered by data and analytics from Highline Financial, the preferred source for banking information and analytics for the financial sector.

"Investor Relations websites are increasingly becoming the number one source of information for investors," said Demetrios N. Skalkotos, Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Services, NASDAQ OMX. "Our WebCenter360 Banking Suite is specially designed to increase the transparency of this critically important communications channel employing high quality competitive research, stock information and data from Highline Financial to those investing in the banking industry."

"We welcome this strategic partnership with NASDAQ OMX as the need for access to on demand banking sector data is crucial for investors to inform their daily investment and business decisions," said Terry Waters, President and CEO, Highline Financial. "The integration of Highline Financial data and analytics in the WebCenter360 Banking Suite will allow the delivery of timely, accurate and comprehensive banking information to NASDAQ's investor relations customers."

"Integrated into the WebCenter360 banking suite, Highline Financial will provide tools that will enable investors to more easily analyze a bank's performance via a dashboard setup. Investors can access information such as Peer Analysis and Deposit Market Analysis, which ranks banks by geographic market. Utilizing these new services, bank Investment Relations Officers can provide more transparent investor communications, more efficiently," NASDAQ OMX Group reported.

The WebCenter360 Banking Suite leverages the unique legacy features of the current WebCenter360 platform and introduces comparative data tools designed for investors analyzing bank performance and shareholders researching company information. The platform can be customized to be seamlessly integrated with the brand look-and-feel of any corporate website.

The new features include Peer Analysis, Deposit Market Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions Summary and Detail, Financial Statistics, and Deposits & Loans Composition.

  --  Peer Analysis shows investors comparisons of financial metrics of one
      bank to those of its peers. This enables investor relations executives
      to show investors how their bank compares to its peer institutions with
      quick, at-a-glance data points.

  --  Deposit Market Analysis allows website visitors to see how the bank
      ranks within a specific market. It compares market share analysis
      year-over-year so investors can see how the bank ranks at different
      market levels.

  --  Mergers & Acquisitions Summary displays information about what the bank
      has acquired or divested on a transaction by transaction level.

  --  Mergers & Acquisitions Detail include information about the buying or
      selling party, the date, location, agent, financial arrangements, and
      specific sets of loan transactions.

  --  Financial Statistics offers the investors an in-depth glance at banking
      industry-specific financial metrics.

  --  Deposits & Loans Composition allows the investor to view the makeup of
      the bank's investment portfolio as broken out so that it totals 100
      percent of total gross loans or gross deposits.

These enhancements complement the product's current features, including the Mobile IR Site, IR Toolkit, Download Library, RSS News Feeds, Shareholder Briefcase, and programs to manage corporate governance, SEC Filings, stock information, events, press releases, information requests and more.

WebCenter360 Banking Suite is one of many investor relations and communications products from NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions, which offers services across its Communications, Intelligence, Visibility, and Governance Platforms.

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