Fourteen major issuers united in Swiss Structured Products Association

The Swiss Structured Products Association SSPA reported with Banque
Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) and Deutsche Bank (DB), two new members and represents
Now the common interests of the largest issuers of structured products,
which together more than 90 percent of the market volume for structured products in Switzerland
unite.

Zurich, March 27, 2007. The SSPA Founded in April 2006, welcomes the accession of the banks BCV
and DB as new members of the Union. Roger Studer, Head of Financial Markets at the Bank
Vontobel and President of the SSPA, “With the BCV we could win one member
is strongly rooted particularly in western Switzerland, and with Deutsche Bank is now a
important foreign bank represented in the Association. Both new members will get in our
support efforts, awareness and knowledge of structured products in the
Switzerland continued to promote “.