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MB Trading Selects BT Radianz To Provide FIX Networking

NEW YORK and EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (August 6, 2003) - MB Trading has selected BT Radianz to provide networking that will link banks, brokerages, market makers, and institutional clients in the United States and Europe to the electronic order-routing and transactional services provided by MB Trading's institutional division.

BT Radianz will supply the networking using existing infrastructure in its global financial extranet, BT Radianz, which is connected to more than 9,000 customer sites worldwide, including the organizations that MB Trading is targeting. The approach will be far more efficient than if MB Trading had contracted with a common telecoms carrier because BT Radianz will be able to turn-up the connectivity more quickly and do so at a lower price.

BT Radianz also will be able to handle MB Trading's needs for connectivity that supports the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol because BT Radianz is an open-standards platform.

Ray Schreiner, executive vice president of MBT Institutional said, "Using BT Radianz will enable us to build our base of customers here and abroad faster because we can immediately leverage BT Radianz's established infrastructure to connect to more users.

"BT Radianz's focus on the financial industry also means it has the technological savvy needed to run our network and provide the high levels of customer service that institutions demand. As a result, we will be able to focus on growing our business instead of running a global network," added Ross Ditlove, CEO of MB Trading.

Today's announcement builds on MB Trading's current use of BT Radianz's services. Until now, MB Trading has been using BT Radianz for FIX-based network connectivity to major electronic community networks (ECNs) used by financial professionals to trade equities. In addition, MB Trading has been exchanging FIX-based orders with other major institutions via BT Radianz.

Chris Church, executive vice president and head of Global Sales and Marketing said, "We are pleased MB Trading has chosen to further realize the benefits of using one scalable connection to BT Radianz for network access to multiple trading partners and end users around the world."

About BT Radianz
BT Radianz is the leading provider of secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity and hosting to the global financial services community. BT Radianz's shared market infrastructure offers a platform optimized for the time-critical demands unique to financial services. The BT Radianz network connects over 10,000 financial sites around the world through a single, redundant, fully-managed connection - while also providing access to nearly 400 pre-trade, trade, and post-trade applications from 160 of the world's leading content and service providers, across the straight-through processing (STP) chain.

About MB Trading
MBT Institutional (a division of MB Trading, member NASD, SIPC, MSRB) is an independent direct access brokerage offering cutting-edge stock market order entry on the NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX equity securities markets, serving international Broker/Dealers, Banks, Financial Institutions, and professional traders. MB Trading also offers smart order routing via MBTX, which intelligently scans market makers, ECNs, exchanges, and hidden pools of liquidity for the best available price for your order. MBTX is a registered trademark of MB Trading.

For more information about MBT Institutional, please contact Ray Schreiner at r.schreiner@mbtinstitutional.com

Interested media should contact Holt Hackney at (512) 844-0137 or email HHackney@hackneycommunications.com

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