Capital Alliance trading platform expands its reach Capital Alliance Group Inc CPT Shares issued 13,413,512 Sep 19 close $0.34 Thu 20 Sept 2001 News Release Mr. Toby Chu reports SE Global Equities business activities have progressed, as the company continues to aggressively enter new markets and bring sophisticated trading tools to securities firms, asset and portfolio management companies, fund managers, and professional investors around the globe. Using SE Global's direct-access trading platform, SE Global Trade, brokerage firms are able to offer their clients direct trade routing to market-makers, ECNs and U.S. stock exchanges, allowing for almost instantaneous trade execution and confirmation. Recent corporate developments include: Enhanced software features Effective Aug. 10, 2001, options trading is now available as a feature on the SE Global Trade platform. SE Global is currently creating a Chinese language interface, and is planning to convert the trading platform to additional languages including German, Korean, Japanese and French. Additionally, SE Global is pursuing plans to develop a single universal platform to trade equities, futures and options. Europe SE Global is pursuing the enhancement of SE Global Trade to enable clients to trade securities on selected European exchanges. The objective is to permit clients to open Euro-denominated accounts at SE Global's subsidiary, Global-American Investments Inc. (GAI), and trade securities using a platform identical to the existing product serving the U.S. markets. Potential customers for this product include European banks, brokers and institutional investors. Additionally, two securities firms in Europe have agreed to enter into a foreign associate agreement with GAI, which would enable them to introduce offshore custodial accounts directly to GAI. Japan A Japan-based day trading school has reached an agreement to offer SE Global Trade software in its training schools. In addition, SE Global is in negotiations to offer an intermediate level Web-based trading platform, which integrates U.S. stock charts and Japanese language features. Hong Kong Several securities firms in Hong Kong have started using SE Global Trade as their U.S. securities trading platform. Furthermore, SE Global has signed a joint marketing agreement with several Hong Kong securities firms to market the company's U.S. direct-access trading platform to local clients. South America and Middle East Several leading South American and Middle Eastern firms have agreed to transfer their active clients to the SE Global Trade platform and/or open new accounts with GAI. "Our expanding alliance network enables us to penetrate the existing client base of overseas securities firms in multiple markets," said SE Global president Toby Chu. "The benefits to SE Global are reduced market entry costs, dramatically minimized marketing expenses and the ability to leverage the existing brand recognition and reputation of locally based securities firms around the globe." WARNING: The company relies upon litigation protection for "forward-looking" statements. (c) Copyright 2001 Canjex Publishing Ltd. stockwatch.com |