Longtop Receives 2010 Key Software Company Certification in China

HONG KONG, March 1, 2011 /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 that its primary operating subsidiary, Longtop System (China) Limited, has received notice of being qualified as a "Key Software Company" from the tax authority and is therefore entitled to a preferential tax rate of 10% for 2010. This is the seventh consecutive year that Longtop System has received the certification. As a result, the Company expects to record an income tax credit of approximately US$5.2 million, or US$0.09 per share in the quarter ended March 31, 2011 and increases its Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share guidance from US$0.38 to US$0.47. Full year fiscal 2011 Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share is now expected to be US$1.82.      

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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 2009. 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.

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