Financial Technology Partners Wins Highly Prestigious Award for Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year and Recognized as a Finalist for Deal of the Decade

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Technology Partners LP and FTP Securities LLC (together, "FT Partners"), are pleased to announce that our firm was again recognized for its accomplishments by The M&A Advisor who awarded FT Partners with the highly coveted and prestigious "Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year" award for 2011.  This is the third time FT Partners has received this award, having previously won in 2004 and 2006.  Separately, we are proud to announce that our representation of Mercury Payment Systems in its investment by Silver Lake Partners, previously recognized as "Deal of the Year" in 2010 was named a finalist for the "Deal of the Decade" award.

FT Partners is currently proud to be finishing up its 10th year in business having been founded in late 2001 with the goal of providing world class investment banking services to clients in the highly dynamic and fast moving financial technology sector.  The firm has amassed an impressive collection of transactions, awards and accolades since its inception.  In addition to being named "Investment Banking Firm of the Year" three times in a span of seven years, the firm's Founder and Managing Partner, Steve McLaughlin, has also been recognized as "Dealmaker of the Year" consecutively from 2006 through 2010.  Steve McLaughlin was also named in 2006, 2007 and 2008 to Institutional Investor's "Online Finance 40" ranking of most influential leaders in online finance and was recognized by IDD Magazine in their "40 Under 40" series.

"It is truly an honor to be recognized by our peers and The M&A Advisor, and we are proud to again be named as Investment Banking Firm of the Year,"said McLaughlin. "FT Partners has had an amazing decade of success, building the leading franchise in the financial technology sector from scratch -- and this recent recognition seems like the perfect way to commemorate our 10th Anniversary.  We look forward to continue serving and delivering truly outstanding results to our clients."

A full listing of the firm's awards and industry recognition are available on our website at www.ftpartners.com/awards.

About Financial Technology Partners LP and FTP Securities LLC

FT Partners is the only investment banking firm focused exclusively on providing strategic and financial advisory services to CEOs in the dynamic financial services and technology sector. The firm offers strategic advisory services in mission-critical transactions including mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, LBOs, refinancings, recapitalizations and private capital raisings. FT Partners' Managing Partner, Steve McLaughlin formerly was a senior investment banker in Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Financial Technology Group and was the senior investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group in San Francisco before leaving the firm to form FT Partners in late 2001. San Francisco-based FT Partners is comprised of a senior team of experienced investment bankers formerly with Goldman Sachs' financial technology, financial services, M&A, corporate finance and investment banking groups. Any securities related transactions contemplated by or acted upon hereunder are conducted by FTP Securities LLC, a FINRA broker-dealer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Financial Technology Partners LP. For additional information, please visit www.ftpartners.com.

SOURCE Financial Technology Partners