INVESTMENT-MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY

* CMC announces its FIX Client API now supports .net and C#; Financial Fusion Inc. announces the support in TradeForce GlobalFIX for Euronext; Putnam Investments announces plans to introduce the Putnam Individual 401(k) plan in early November.

Capital Markets Consulting L.L.C. (CMC) announces its FIX Client API now supports .net and C#, increasing the availability to trading systems on Microsoft's newest technology. The FIX Client API is available in Java, C++, C, COM and .net. The newestoffering fits into CMC's strategy of providing technical solutions to a wide variety of financial-software developers. Capital Markets Consulting provides a full line of FIX products that are compatible with the CMC FIX Client API including the CMC FIX Order Monitor, CMC FIX Simulator and the FIX to Exchange Gateways.

Financial Fusion Inc. announced the support in TradeForce GlobalFIX for Euronext. This extension to TradeForce GlobalFIX is available as part of Financial Fusion TradeForce Suite. With this support, TradeForce GlobalFIX allows brokers and dealers to connect to the Euronext exchange and send and receive orders and confirmations of executions in real-time using the Euronext version of the FIX protocol.

Putnam Investments announces plans to introduce the Putnam Individual 401(k) plan in early November. The Putnam plan will allow financial advisers to provide sole proprietors with an Internet-based, full-service-retirement product that has features and benefits traditionally available only to large corporations. Putnam has partnered with ExpertPlan, an Internet-based provider of retirement-plan solutions, to offer this Individual(k) plan. Using the Internet and proprietary technology of ExpertPlan, the Putnam Individual 401(k) incorporates online set-up and record keeping.