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Media Contact: FXDirectDealer, a Subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Tradition,
NEW YORK, July 13, 2005 – FXDirectDealer (“FXDD”), a leader of online foreign exchange, today announced the launch of an institutional forex trading platform that offers clients significant liquidity and greater trading opportunities. Additionally, FXDD announces a 2-pip spread on the EUR/USD and nine new currency pairs, doubling the number of currencies available to its retail clients. “To better serve our institutional clients,” stated Joseph Botkier, CEO and Vice Chairman of FXDirectDealer, “we provide an institutional trading platform with liquidity up to $100 million; a classic retail platform normally provides liquidity up to $10 million. Now, our clients may make significantly larger trades.” “As a further commitment to customer service,” Mr. Botkier continued, “we have added many new currency pairs, including USD/MXN, to our retail trading platform. We’re confident these initiatives will enable us to keep pace with our growing customer base and their needs.” FXDD has added CHF/JPY, GBP/CHF, EUR/AUD, EUR/CAD, AUD/CAD, AUD/JPY, AUD/NZD, NZD/USD, and USD/MXN. This move increases the number of available currency pairs to 19. FXDD was launched in 2003 by Compagnie Financière Tradition. Within two years, FXDD has risen to a leading online forex provider with thousands of clients globally. About FXDirectDealer FXDirectDealer, headquartered in New York, offers online foreign exchange trading via its FXDD Trader, MetaTrader and institutional platforms. FXDD provides true interbank pricing, 100:1 leverage for regular accounts and 200:1 leverage for mini accounts, tight spreads (2 pips-wide on EUR/USD and 3 pips-wide on other major currencies) and commission-free forex trading. For a free demo, please visit www.fxdd.com, or call +1.212.791.3933.About Compagnie Financière Tradition Compagnie Financière Tradition (“CFT”) is the world’s No. 3 inter-dealer broker and a leader in a broad range of financial products (futures and options) and commodity-related products (precious metals, energy products and pulp and paper). CFT has a presence in 18 countries, and services 7,000 institutional clients with its staff of nearly 2,000 employees. CFT is listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (Symbol: CFT). For more information, please visit www.traditiongroup.com.### |
