Shareholders entitled to a bigger amount of shareswill receive one F&C share for every 10 Friends shares theyhold with

Shareholders entitled to a bigger amount of shareswill receive one F&C share for every 10 Friends shares theyhold, with the transfer to be completed by July 17. The Daily Telegraph FRIENDS PROVIDENT PLACES 58.1 MILLION F&C SHARES AS DEMERGERMOVES FORWARD Friends Provident FP.L, the life assurance group, hasplaced 58.1 million F&C Asset Management (FCAM.L) shares as partof its demerger from the fund manager. DELOITTE ON STANDBY AS FINANCE BATTLE CONTINUES AT THEINDEPENDENT Deloitte has been positioned as standby administrator byIndependent News & Media (INME.I) in case its debt-restructuringnegotiations come to nothing. The publisher of The Independentnewspaper is facing serious financial challenges as it strugglesto repay a 200 million euros bond and has had to extend thepayment deadline twice to the end of July.

FollowingBT’s decision, Charles Dunstone, head of Carphone Warehouse(CPW.L), dealt another to blow to Phorm, saying the group wasnot willing to join the service on its own. Cinven said Hugh Langmuir will beHall’s replacement as managing partner. PHORM STRANDED AS BT AND CARPHONE PULL PLUG ON ONLINE”SPYING” TECHNOLOGY Shares in Phorm (PHOR.L) plunged 192.50 pence, or 40percent, to 282.50 pence on Monday after BT (BT.L) decided toshun its service, which tracks Internet users as they browse andsends specially tailored advertisements to them based on thetrail of personal information that they leave behind. The Times Stocks CHANGES AT CINVEN Cinven [CINV.UL], the private equity group, has appointedRobin Hall as its new executive chairman. Hall, managing partnerof the company since 1998, will be in charge of day-to-daymanagement of the group and its 5.6 billion pounds fourth fund,which closed in mid-2006. Villagers walk through flood waters in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, July 4, 2009 YourView/Hemanta Nath. A new,updated report will be issued annually on the basis of the most recent insightsand developments and in conjunction with Global MVT Index scoring updates.

The report is 12 pages in length with multiple graphs, charts and tables. However, as it is alsoimportant to reference the country in its global and regional context, refer tothe Mondato Global MVT Index Overview Report for the full set of global Indexscores and more generalized information about the Index parameters and itsbroader context. The purpose of this country report is to enhance understanding of the MVT Indexscore for Vietnam and in particular to quantify and qualify conditions therethat are most conducive to development of the MVT market. Mondato’s 2009 Mobile Value Transfer Index: Country Report – Vietnam is a firstof its kind examination of the Vietnamese mobile value transfer market. DUBLIN–(Business Wire)–Research and Markets( http://) hasannounced the addition of the “Mondato MVT Index Country Report – Vietnam”report to their offering. LtdFor more information visit http:// and MarketsLaura Wood, Senior Fax (USA): 646-607-1907Fax (International): +353-1-481-1716 Copyright Business Wire 2009.