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Jun 25, 2019

Lovell Minnick Partners Makes Investment in oneZero Financial Systems

Positions Premier FX Technology Solutions Business for Accelerated Growth

PHILADELPHIA, LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, June 25, 2019 – Lovell Minnick Partners (“LMP”), a private equity firm focused on investments in the global financial services industry, including related technology and business services companies, today announced it has completed a significant minority investment in oneZero Financial Systems (“oneZero” or “the Company”). oneZero is a leading provider of software and technology solutions to the rapidly growing foreign exchange (“FX”) trading industry. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, oneZero provides mission-critical FX and multi-asset class liquidity, distribution, business intelligence and risk management solutions to the retail brokerage and institutional marketplace, including hedge funds, prime brokers and global banks. Through its international presence across offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and Cyprus, the Company offers hosted and SaaS-based solutions that enableclients to aggregate, route and manage their risk exposures through Liquidity Hub, access broader liquidity distribution through oneZero’s EcoSystem and gain business intelligence insights through Data Source.

“The convergence of the retail and institutional FX markets is rapidly increasing as global market participants seek sophisticated, highly-scalable trading solutions and reliable IT infrastructure with ultra-low latency, unparalleled pricing data and high transactional capacity,” said Steve Pierson, Managing Partner, Lovell Minnick Partners. “oneZero continues to develop next-generation wholesale technology and business intelligence solutions for market participants with unmatched speed, efficiency and risk management support.”

“We are excited to build upon our strong foundation as a leading technology solutions provider to both the retail and institutional brokerage FX markets as we expand our multi-asset class trading, technology and data solutions to serve more market participants around the world,” said Andrew Ralich, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of oneZero. “We look forward to partnering with the deeply experienced team at Lovell Minnick and tapping their institutional capital markets expertise to accelerate oneZero’s growth.”

Lovell Minnick is joined in this investment by Phil Weisberg, institutional foreign exchange executive veteran and founder of Matzliach Capital who has served as Senior Advisor to oneZero since June 2018. Weisberg has deep financial markets, derivatives and corporate development experience, previously founding and serving as CEO of FXall, a business-to-business foreign exchange platform that previously traded on the New York Stock Exchange before being acquired by Thomson Reuters. “We believe there is an enormous greenfield opportunity for oneZero’s further expansion into the global institutional market as regulatory requirements across Europe and globally continue to evolve and create demand for versatile, robust and cost-efficient technology solutions,” he said.

oneZero serves a network of over 200 global retail and institutional broker-dealers, which conduct over $100 billion in average daily trading volume on over 6 million executed transactions per day.

Broadhaven Capital Partners served as exclusive financial advisor to oneZero, while Gunderson Dettmer served as legal advisor to the Company. Morgan Lewis served as counsel to Lovell Minnick.

About oneZero Financial Systems
oneZero Financial Systems delivers leading multi-asset technology solutions through a high-performance aggregation, order routing, and risk management Liquidity Hub, access to a complete EcoSystem of distribution partners, and Data Source business intelligence insights that help clients grow. oneZero is known for its superior client support, including fast setup, responsive service and superior technology that is scalable, configurable and reliable. Transparency is embedded through complete access to transactional data and industry benchmarks and unbiased liquidity from multiple providers. oneZero supports your growth and profitability by scaling with your business needs and empowering you to manage your end-customer and partner risk more effectively. oneZero delivers its globally compliant, liquidity-neutral solutions through a hosted, SaaS model across three self-managed, highly reliable and ultra-low latency data centers that deliver connectivity to major financial exchanges, banks and other wholesale venues. For more information, please visit www.onezero.com.

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