In 2018, Exactpro completed a management buyout from LSEG, launched a new office in New York, and established partnerships for software testing across various financial institutions and exchanges. Key highlights included participation in major conferences, becoming a premium member of the FIX Trading Community, and introducing next-generation regulatory compliance solutions. The company emphasized its commitment to test automation and open-source contributions while expanding its global reach and offerings in software testing.

1. 2018
Exactpro Year in Review

2. 17 January 2018
Exactpro successfully completed a management buyout
from London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), signed a
new multi-year master services agreement with LSEG,
and opened its head office in London

4. 30 January 2018
The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and
Exactpro announce their collaboration in helping AIFC with
a successful launch of Astana International Exchange
(AIX), Kazakhstan’s newest stock exchange built in
cooperation with Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).
Exactpro had provided functional and non-functional
testing of AIX’s trading technology platform powered by
Nasdaq OMX.

5. Springer publishes the
international Tools and
Methods of Program Analysis
conference proceedings in its
Computer and Information
Science edition
TMPA

7. FIX Trading Community
Having been a member of FIX Trading Community for a
number of years, we became its Premium Member in 2018
and participated and spoke at FIX EMEA Conference 2018
on Post-Trade Software Testing Challenges
Our FIX destinations in 2018: London, Milan, Stockholm,
Sydney, Singapore, Boston and Paris

9. Having joined the ranks of Pearson VUE® authorised test centres, Exactpro’s delivery centres in Saratov and
Kostroma now offer test programs from over 110 international Pearson VUE partner companies to the general
public.
“We are proud to welcome Exactpro to the global network of Pearson VUE® Authorised Test Centers. Together, we are providing even more
professionals with the opportunity to obtain meaningful credentials to advance their careers.”,
said Ray Murray, Pearson VUE Vice President.

10. 5 February 2018
Workshop in Umeå
Sweden

11. April 2018 - Exactpro introduces a set of Telegram stickers

12. QA Financial Forums in 2018: London, Chicago, New York

13. 1 May 2018
Given plans to grow our
business in the United
States, Exactpro opens a
new office in New York

15. Welcome to TEST WORLD
• A world of Adventure
• A world of Danger
• A world of Fantasy
• Go-Live without Consequences
• Retrospectives without Judgements
• Testing without Limits
… inspired by HBO's West World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epNbaV98FjM

17. 12 June 2018
Minium Financial Technology, a Cinnober Group
company, and Exactpro announced their partnership for
Exactpro to provide independent software testing of
Minium’s Risk Management and Post-Trade processing
systems.

19. 20 June 2018
London, Grange
St. Paul’s Hotel
EXTENT-2018

20. 20 June 2018
Chief Operating Officer of Australian Securities Exchange
(ASX), our client, spoke on disruptive technologies,
blockchain and on the exchange’s plans to replace
CHESS (Clearing House Electronic Subregister System)
with a DLT-based system.
Exactpro initiates our own first Blockchain research project

22. 5 July 2018
Analysis of
Images,
Social
networks
and Texts
AIST
Conference
Moscow
HSE

23. 11 July 2018
ParFX, the wholesale electronic spot FX trading platform,
was named ‘Best e-FX Trading Venue’ at an FX Week e-
FX award ceremony in New York.
ParFX was designed by Tradition, an award-winning
interdealer broker and one of the world’s largest in over-
the-counter financial and commodity-related products, in
conjunction with a group of the world’s leading FX banks.
Tradition’s collaboration with Exactpro dates back to 2010
when Exactpro was brought in to test Tradition’s interest
rate swap trading platform.

26. 14 July 2018
Hundreds of programmers camped on a beach to have a
series of IT industry-related discussions and presentations
Organised by Youcon Events Group, Saratov
Chers clients, chers collègues, chers amis, Permettez-
nous de vous souhaiter un formidable 14 juillet!

28. 22 August 2018
Exactpro and our long-time client in Canada Aequitas NEO
Exchange (NEO) publish a press release about market data
simulation and non-functional testing tools to facilitate
testing of ongoing improvements of NEO’s technology and
functionality, including the introduction of the new dark book.

30. 9 September 2018
On 9 September, we wished the
world a Happy Software Testers
Day and a Happy Birthday to us -
9 years old and counting!

31. 19 September 2018
As part of executing our strategy of global growth as a
company focused on software testing and building software
to test our clients’ software, we launched Exactpro
Systems Georgia and our new project delivery centre in
Tbilisi.

33. 27 September 2018
TMPA School 2018: Software Testing, Data Analysis and
Machine Learning. Kostroma State University
The School aims to encourage the development of the IT
industry in the region and the implementation of the cutting-
edge research in software verification. The leading
specialists in program engineering, software testing and
verification came together to share their own experience
and the most recent advances in the field.

35. 3 October 2018
QA Financial’s first public sector event — The QA
Government & Public Sector Forum: London 2018. For the
first time ever, heads of software quality assurance and
software risk management designed for the public sector
were brought together. Representatives from Bank of
England, HM Revenue & Customs, NHS, The British Library
and other organisations spoke at the event. Exactpro
delivered a presentation on Software Testing, Machine
Learning and Regulatory Compliance

37. 4 October 2018
The RegTech Summit has been covering
regulatory challenges that have impacted
every aspect of the capital markets for the
past 20 years. The event organized by
A-Team Group brings together the
practitioners managing regulatory change
and implementing RegTech solutions
Exactpro introduces next generation
Regulatory Compliance Platform

38. 9 October 2018
Capital Markets
Oslo

40. 23 October 2018
Sibos, the annual global financial services conference,
exhibition and networking event organised by SWIFT

41. 23 October 2018
Exactpro joined enterprise blockchain firm R3’s global
network of more than 200 members and partners. In
collaboration with R3, Exactpro had trained and equipped a
team of software developers to enable the delivery of testing
services and CorDapp development to R3 partners.
“We’re delighted to welcome Exactpro into the R3 ecosystem,” said Ricardo Correia, Global Head of
Partners at R3. “We look forward to leveraging Exactpro’s experience in this important area of QA and
testing as we bring more real-world enterprise Corda-based solutions to market.”

43. 29 October 2018
Hong Kong
FinTech Week

44. 1 November 2018
TABB Group
FinTech Festival
New York

45. 14 November 2018
The world’s largest platform for the global FinTech community

46. 7 November 2018
Exactpro took part in DataFest Tbilisi, the leading data
conference in the Caucasus. The event’s agenda included
16 inspirational talks, 35 workshops and 7 datathons
delivered by experts from 14 countries.
We spoke on How Blockchain Technology Can be Utilized in
FinTech and our experience working with open source
distributed ledger technology and played The Debugger

48. 8 November 2018
The Americas Trading Briefing, Boston. Organised by FIX
Trading Community and hosted by State Street, the event
provided a chance to participate in its interactive half-day
briefing program featuring a series of panel sessions and
talks to offer market participants impartial, high quality
content, the knowledge and experience of the industry’s
leading speakers, as well as excellent networking
opportunities. Exactpro took part in a panel titled “AI
Adoption Across Capital Markets”.

50. 9 November 2018
Michael Smith had joined Exactpro as Head of Sales bringing
over 20 years’ experience in the financial marketplace

51. 23 November 2018
We announced the appointment of Natia Sirbiladze as CEO
of Exactpro Systems Georgia.
Natia’s academic background and several years of work
experience in programming, business analysis and user
acceptance testing, banking, finance, accounting and IT
consulting made us confident that we can all look forward to
growing our new delivery centre in Tbilisi.

53. 26 November 2018
Exactpro takes part in a hakathon event organized by
Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering, part of
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow
Engineering Physics Institute), presents its case named
“The Best Technical Support Service” and awarded a well
earned prize to a team of students from Kaluga studying at
the Bauman Moscow State Technical University who
successfully solved it.

54. 26 November 2018
Exactpro takes part in a
hakathon event organized by
Obninsk Institute for Nuclear
Power Engineering, part of
National Research Nuclear
University MEPhI (Moscow
Engineering Physics Institute).

56. 12 December 2018
Basel, Switzerland.
Exactpro representatives
took part in the
Hyperledger Global
Forum organized for
software developers,
vendors, enterprise end-
users, and blockchain
enthusiasts.

57. 30 December 2018
"Build Software to Test Software" is our motto. Effective test
automation with wide coverage and focus on cost efficiency,
maintainability and sustainability is at the core of our
business. Over the years, we have benefited a lot from open
source when building our bespoke set of automated tools for
functional and non-functional testing. It is high time for us to
start contributing back to the open source community in
return – JackFish, Nostradamus, Sailfish.

59. Exactpro Rocks Parties as we celebrate Holidays Season. Thank you!