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Visual Trader And Trading Screens To Link Up Their Networks - Visual Trader, Bolsas Y Mercados Españoles' (BME) Multimarket Platform, Increases Its Presence In International Markets

Date 09/07/2003

Visual Trader Systems, a company integrated in Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) and TradingScreen have signed an agreement to link up their networks. The intermediaries and financial companies linked to Visual Trader will be able to send their orders to international brokers linked to Trading Screen as well as receive orders sent to their own market.

The initiative places important added value on Visual Trader as a greater number of companies will be linked to its network.

Trading Screen has over 450 users linked to its network, mainly hedge funds and pension funds, which can send orders to Visual Trader's clients and to 18 brokers, it being possible to offer order execution in those market to which they have access.

Visual Trader's platform provides its users with a single access - interface, both for the domestic markets and for major international markets. Today, 64 Spanish entities use Visual Trader's platform, half of which are members of Bolsa de Madrid. The rest are companies that can send their orders to over 50 international markets through their broker of choice.

With this agreement, there are already five networks that collaborate actively with Visual Trader, which provides their clients with unlimited business opportunities as they can operate through over 700 brokers world-wide and receive orders from over 1,000 financial entities coming from these networks.