GLOBAL FINANCE SOLUTIONSTRUSTED CONNECTIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL ECOSYSTEM

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Growing Challenges Meet Cost Pressures The ramifications of regulatory compliance, consolidation, globalization and the need to bring operational costs down, are being felt throughout the financial ecosystem. Business is diversified more geographically. Economic choices can now be made about where best to locate operations or centers of excellence. Legacy systems need rationalizing, upgrading, or moving to the cloud. Greater transparency and security are required to deliver a global and local view of exposure to risk. Network traffic is surging. But can yours sustain this growth?

Customers’ Expectations Reach Across Devices In the retail banking, wealth management and insurance sectors, customer satisfaction and loyalty are increasingly dependent on a personalized, omni-channel experience. Online and on-the-move customers want a unified, convenient, reliable customer experience, no matter how they connect. This kind of brand experience relies on data and platforms converging seamlessly. Virtual banking and video-enabled contact centers are also gaining momentum, putting even more pressure on network security and performance.

You Need to Support Growth, Efficiency and Security Success is about cost-effective access to new markets. You need the capability to move, manage and secure ever-growing volumes of financial data – globally – over a multi-layered, resilient, high-performing communications network. It is also about delivering innovative online financial services, fixed and on the move. And you need to do it with lower operational costs, compliance with regulatory requirements and protection for customer and business data.

Level 3 Connects the Financial Sector Financial businesses are increasingly relying on Level 3 Communications to deliver agile, diversely protected, direct connections to the most vibrant financial and business centers around the world. We offer low network latency even during peak surges, with lower cost entry to new markets and liquidity opportunities. You can get on net, and take advantage of co-hosting and disaster recovery capabilities. We deliver your data over our robust, resilient communications infrastructure, backed by local services. Level 3 can deliver it all on a scale that keeps pace with your global ambitions. Why Level 3?

• Local-to-global capabilities to support growth in new markets – Our global footprint means that we can serve as your single network services provider across town, across the country or across the globe. Our reach extends from North America to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region.

• Extensive undersea and terrestrial facilities – We wholly own and operate our network. We expect to complement our AC1 and AC2 transatlantic routes with new transatlantic wireless services, planned for early 2014.

• Committed to financial customers – We are a Fortune 500 company that provides communications services to eight out of the 10 largest U.S. banks, three of the world’s top five financial exchanges, and seven of the top market data providers.

• Backed by SLAs – Up to 99.999 percent service levels are available to back your diverse, resilient communications.

• Engineered for Security – Security accreditation from the US and UK governments

Markets change rapidly. Opportunities are fleeting and harder to find in today’s fragmented and highly regulated financial markets. Volumes are soaring. Trading desks and back offices generate quadrillions of transactions that traverse the world – constantly challenging both network and systems performance. Those able to scale operations and gain proximity to the next-frontier market or dark pool of liquidity can have the edge.

IN SEARCH OF LIQUIDITYCUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND COMPLIANCE

Cost-effective reach into new and emerging markets

Our aim is to help you into new markets early and keep costs low by minimizing your capital outlay and maximizing access. For example, we are expanding routes and capacity to new sources of liquidity in Latin America, South Africa and Eastern Europe.

As well as increasing the scale and scope of our network, we are quick to adopt new technologies, such as 100 Gbps interfaces and more sophisticated security technologies. Staying ahead of our customers’ future needs is a Level 3 commitment.

Connecting you to the heart of global liquidity and trading locations

We own and operate a vast, carrier-grade, highly connected fiber network. We provide the access, speed, redundancy, and security required to meet the burgeoning demands of the financial services industry. Every day, we transport trillions of transactions and huge volumes of market data over the Level 3® Network directly into the heart of the world’s leading financial centers, exchanges, MTFs, ATSs and ECNs.

Level 3 owns and operates key transatlantic AC1 and AC2 sub-sea systems to support fast business-critical connections between New York and London. Other key financial centers, including, Chicago, New York/New Jersey, Washington DC, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich, Johannesburg and Dubai are within a few milliseconds reach. In total, we have six routes across the Atlantic to offer the diversity you need for business resilience.

As the financial world becomes one global, always-on market, our network is an enabler. You need

to trade across borders, reach new markets and deploy sophisticated strategies and technologies,

such as smart order routing, knowing that the higher volumes of traffic generated will reach their

destinations safely and securely. Settlement has become global, too, with venues competing on least-

cost execution.

ENABLING SOLUTIONS FOR A BETTER CONNECTED FINANCIAL WORLD

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Supporting continuity of operations

Speed is not your only concern. Continuity of service is vital. Low latency is meaningless if you cannot connect to market data, trading venues, counterparties or clearing houses. With our network ownership and route diversity come the controls to underpin availability, quality of service, performance and resilience. We are able to monitor traffic, reduce bottlenecks and take pre-emptive and preventative action – and we back it with SLA guarantees.

Simplifying operational complexity with one supplier

Business and application priorities, the nature and sensitivity of your traffic will determine the levels of security, network monitoring and service levels you require. High capacity private wavelengths and point-to-point connections, metro or long-haul, CDN, Ethernet, IP VPN or converged voice, data, video and multimedia applications with MPLS – it takes just one provider relationship to manage.

Level 3 can custom design the lowest cost solution – even creating and running a custom private network on your behalf – that best optimizes speed, security, reach and performance while maximizing your return on investment.

Dealing directly with the network owner enhances service, enabling a fast response to change requests and fault handling while reducing your administration and total cost of ownership.

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• 500+ global network markets, including 170 metro markets

• 100,000 Intercity route miles

• 30,000 metro route miles

• More than 55 countries served

• Reaching 5 continents

ON-NET• 8 of the top 10 U.S. banks

• 3 of the top 5 global financial exchanges

EXTEND YOUR REACHWITH LEVEL 3

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With one of the world’s largest, most advanced IP networks,

Level 3 can help you create a more efficient, more flexible, more capable business. Our network

extends to North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific

region. And it’s connected by extensive undersea facilities that connect five continents. Because

we own and control our continuously upgradable network, we are in direct command of network

performance. You can count on secure, reliable delivery of your data, voice and video services.

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A NETWORK BUILT FOR IPIP technology is the key to enabling next-generation solutions for cloud computing,

collaboration and virtualisation. From our inception, we built the Level 3 Network

with IP in mind, designing a network that looked beyond legacy technology.

We took advantage of IP mesh networking with redundant routes, diversity and

scalability to grow and support modern applications and to provide reliable service.

And we continue to grow our network, bringing more on-net connectivity to

business locations like yours.

END-TO-END GLOBAL NETWORK

• More than 55 countries

• More than 500 global markets

• ~100,000 route miles

• ~30,000 metro route miles

• ~35,000 subsea miles

• ~170 global metro markets

ON-NET MARKET WITH METRO NETWORK

ON-NET MARKET

OWNED NETWORK

LEASED NETWORK

GLOBAL CYBER, ATM HEIST NETS THIEVES $45 MILLION FROM 26 COUNTIES

EIGHT PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IN NEW YORK FOR PARTICIPATING IN A GLOBAL SCHEME THAT STOLE ATM PINS AND SIPHONED MILLIONS FROM BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD.

THE PERPETRATORS HAD ALLEGEDLY USED SOPHISTICATED INTRUSION TECHNIQUES TO HACK INTO THE SYSTEMS OF GLOBAL BANKS, STEAL DEBIT CARD DATA AND ELIMINATE THE WITHDRAWAL LIMITS ON CARDS THEY OBTAINED BEFORE MAKING

FRAUDULENT ATM WITHDRAWALS IN LOCATIONS ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

– AS REPORTED BY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, MAY 9 2013

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Optimize customer experience online and on the move

Enabling customers to self-serve has become important to retail banking, insurance and investment firms looking to reduce costs. Mobile payments and online banking are growing exponentially. Fast delivery of all types of content and a satisfying customer experience are vital for competitive advantage, building customer loyalty and providing rapid access to cloud-based applications.

More than 1 billion mobile phone users will have used their device for banking purposes by 2017 (Juniper Research). The days of a cut-down version of your website for mobiles are over. With the Level 3® High Performing Websites solution, content delivery and mobile acceleration tools, you can deliver a uniform, device-agnostic brand experience, with optimized performance at the network, delivery and browser levels.

More than 60 percent of traffic that starts on our IP network stays on it for better performance control. And we cache files on over 15,000 edge servers for fast delivery.

Scale and Agility

System resilience and maintaining business continuity are becoming more critical as a result of regulatory demands and the growing impact of outages on revenue. Mining data to provide targeted offerings and a more personalized experience that your customers control uses massive bandwidth. Or calling up back-office data to display on front-facing customer screens, such as for insurance quotes, adds to network and system volumes.

OPTIMIZING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCESCALE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Colocating or hosting your systems in any of our 350 carrier-neutral data centers can help you reduce your own IT footprint, support disaster recovery efforts, migrate to modern platforms and scale resources on demand. Located in 47 countries, each data center provides high-speed, on-net access and close proximity to the world’s financial centers. Our state-of-the-art facilities deliver multiple security layers, have redundant power systems, enhance availability and support regulatory requirements for security and disaster recovery.

Manage risk to brand, intellectual property and customer information

The pressure from regulators to monitor and improve financial conduct is intense and has never been more network-related. Delivering timely information to management and regulators and protecting digital assets are both essential for managing risk, as is the need to back up and recover your critical data within the required parameters. Failure to comply carries heavy penalties.

Level 3SM Managed Security services connect you with unique insight across global infrastructures. We leverage advanced predictive technologies to monitor, track and combat threats. Our ‘defense in depth’ approach across physical and logical security enables us to correlate activities and identify suspicious actions at the earliest opportunities. By integrating security and network capabilities, we can correlate events and use security intelligence to protect you from data loss, multiple cyber threats, intrusion and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.

When transactions and traffic are peaking and surging, they can place a huge strain on banking

performance and slow down other critical systems.

Local-to-Global support

Level 3 offers end-to-end, 24 x 7 support throughout North America, in 23 European countries, and across Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Key Facts

• Local-to-global-to-local connectivity

• Highly interconnected

• Direct on-net connection to many sources of liquidity and market data

• Low-cost access to new markets

• More low-latency route options than many other carriers

• Direct paths to 15 top global financial exchanges

• Six diverse transatlantic routes enabling end-to-end access to key exchange locations in Europe

• 15 international, national and regional financial exchanges, 15 of the leading ECNs and trading platforms, 7 top market data providers all use Level 3

• 350 data centers

GLOBAL SCALEBACKED BY LOCAL SUPPORT AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICESThe finance industry operates globally; so do our networks. But when it comes to customer

service or professional advice on reducing costs, support is best provided locally.

“IF YOU WERE TO TAKE EVERY WORD WRITTEN IN THE HUMAN LANGUAGE – THROUGHOUT ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY, IN ALL LANGUAGES AND IN ALL FORMATS – AND COMBINED THAT WITH ALL MOVIES EVER RECORDED IN BLU-RAY, THEN TOPPED IT OFF WITH EVERY SONG IN THE ITUNES LIBRARY, OUR NETWORK CARRIES ALL THAT 1,350 TIMES A DAY.” – JACK WATERS, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, LEVEL 3

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