New York, April 25, 2006 -- Lab49, Inc., the leading provider of custom application development services in the banking and financial services industries, today sponsored the 4th annual Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference.

Lab49 Senior Technical Fellow Damien Morton delivered a talk entitled "Applying WinFX On The Trading Floor: Building The Next Generation Trading System". The presentation, which was packed to capacity, explained how the upcoming version of Windows will enable application developers to apply exciting new graphics techniques within their own solutions.

"We expect that over the next 12-24 months, WinFX will drive innovation and empower developers to create compelling user experiences like never before. As a leader in custom application development for Wall Street, it's important for us to stay out in front of this emerging technology," said Daniel Chait, Managing Director at Lab49.

Lab49, founded in 2002, serves leading global investments banks, hedge funds and mortgage institutions and has completed custom software engagements in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, portfolio management, and real-time risk information delivery systems.