Blackwood Trading, LLC to Host the Financial Services Industry's First Direct Access Roundtable On February 20

Business Wire, Feb 5, 2001

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001

Industry Leaders to Discuss How Recent Changes in Technology and

New SEC Rules Will Impact Online Trading

Blackwood Trading, LLC, a premier financial software development and leading direct access provider, today announced that it will host the first direct access trading roundtable.

Topics to be discussed will include how changes in technology such as SuperSOES(SM) and SuperMontage, and the new SEC disclosure regulations will impact online trading.

The roundtable will be held in conjunction with the International Online Trading Expo on Tuesday, February 20, from 8:00-9:00 a.m. at the Marriott Marquis, New York City.

Participants include Blackwood Trading Managing Partners Benjamin Weinger and Craig Schlifstein, Tradescape CEO Omar Amanat, Onsite Trading President Gary Mednick and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. E-Finance Analyst Russell Keene. The moderator will be Scott Kursman of the Securities Industry Association's General Counsel Office.

"In recent months, financial service industry leaders have debated several hot-topic issues including new trading technology platforms such as SuperSOES(SM) and SuperMontage, and new SEC regulations regarding payment for order flow and best execution practices," said Craig Schlifstein, managing partner, Blackwood Trading. "Our goal in offering this roundtable is to help educate the general public and trading community on how these issues will impact the future of online trading."

For more information on the event or to attend, please contact Karen M. Genicola, director, Blackwood Trading at (212) 655-1770 x237 or Karen@blackwoodtrading.com.

About Blackwood Trading, LLC

Headquartered in the heart of New York's financial district, Blackwood Trading (www.blackwoodtrading.com) is a premier financial software development and trading management company offering one of the most advanced direct access trading systems in the financial community. Blackwood ranks in the top ten online brokers in the U.S. based on equivalent volume.

Blackwood's technology is changing the way Wall Street trades securities by providing its retail and institutional customers with direct, equal access to all sources of liquidity, and by offering unbiased, electronic order routing technology that automates the strategies of Blackwood's most successful Wall Street traders.