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GL TRADE To Provide Standard & Poor's Calendars Information On GL WIN Stations

Date 11/09/2002

GL TRADE, the world's leading provider of financial trading solutions, today announces a partnership with Standard & Poor's, the leading financial information and ratings provider, to make Standard & Poor's Calendars information available to GL WIN users.

GL WIN users will now receive 'week ahead' information from the Standard & Poor's Calendars, including the American S&P 500 index, information on 1,200 international blue chip companies featured in the S&P Global 1200 index and a further 2,300 European stocks in both country and sector formats.

In addition GL WIN users will also be given the opportunity to subscribe to the full Standard & Poor's Calendars extending it to a minimum of a 'year ahead' and a database of company websites and key IR and event-organiser contacts.

Commenting on the new partnership with GL TRADE, Geoff Hawksworth, Managing Director, Standard & Poor's Investment Services Europe, said, "Standard & Poor's Calendars are the latest in a line of existing Standard & Poor's services to be added to the GL TRADE offering, which already includes ComStock and Compustat. We are very excited about the value Standard & Poor's Calendars bring to the financial community as a whole and GL TRADE customers in particular, especially when provided in conjunction with GL TRADE's innovative platforms and solutions."

Vincent Burzynski, Strategic Projects Director at GL TRADE, adds, "GL WIN is used by more than 30,000 traders worldwide to access financial data and to place orders on more than 60 cash equities and derivatives exchanges around the world. This new partnership enhances our provision of key financial data for trading professionals enabling them to monitor their sectors more closely."