Longtop Announces Closing of the Acquisition of Giantstone and Reconfirms Guidance

HONG KONG, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Longtop Financial Technologies Limited ("Longtop") (NYSE: LFT), a leading software developer and solutions provider targeting the financial services industry in China, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Giantstone Information & Technology Ltd. (Giantstone), a leading core banking solution provider in China.  

"Closing the Giantstone acquisition is an important milestone for Longtop to lead our entry into the core banking area and a suitably positive conclusion to our fiscal third 2010 quarter," commented Weizhou Lian, Chief Executive Officer of Longtop. "While we are still in the process of finalizing our financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, we feel confident we will be able to achieve the current First Call revenue and Adjusted Earnings Per Share consensus for both fiscal Q3 and Q4 2010. The changes and prospective changes to the People's Bank of China reserve ratio or the possibility that non-performing loans may increase had no negative impact on our Q3 results and we believe these factors will also have no negative impact on our Q4 2010 results."   

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About Longtop Financial Technologies Limited

Longtop is a leading software development and solutions provider targeting the financial services industry in China. Longtop develops and delivers a comprehensive range of software applications and solutions with a focus on meeting the rapidly growing IT needs of the financial services institutions in China. Longtop is the highest ranked Chinese financial technology provider on the Global FinTech 100 survey of top technology partners to the financial services industry. Independent research firm IDC has also named Longtop the No.1 market share leader in China's Banking IT solution market and the No.2 market share leader in China's Insurance IT solution market in calendar year 2008. Headquartered in Beijing, Longtop has six solution delivery centers, three research and development centers and 95 ATM service centers located in 27 out of 31 provinces in China.

For more information, please visit: http://en.longtop.com/.

SOURCE Longtop Financial Technologies Limited

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