S.W, FRTI: FREEREALTIME.COM'S 'ONE POINT' TO OFFER PERSONAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ONE LOGIN AND ONE PASSWORD DOES IT ALL...
IRVINE, Calif., Mar 16, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
FreeRealTime.com, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: FRTI), the company that
brought free real-time quotes and market information to the serious
online investor and financial community, today announced its plan to
offer "One Point", an easy-to-use personal financial account
information aggregation service, to more than 1 million registered
members of its popular www.freerealtime.com website. The "One Point"
service is the result of an agreement with VerticalOne Corporation, a
subsidiary of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), and utilizes VerticalOne's
state- of-the art, proprietary aggregation and security technology.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
FreeRealTime.com's One Point will be launched in late Spring 2000, and
will give FreeRealTime.com members single page, personalized access to
their online personal account information from multiple financial
institutions, including: banking, credit card, brokerage, travel
rewards, and billing accounts. Through a secure and private site,
FreeRealTime.com's One Point will allow members access to a
consolidated statement of their personal account information without
the annoyance of visiting and logging into multiple sites with multiple
passwords. Members will also be able to perform account transactions
through easy web site links.
"Our members increasingly rely on FreeRealTime.com as a trusted source
of actionable financial information," said Brad Gunn, President and
Co-CEO of FreeRealTime.com. "Building upon our position that financial
information should be fast, free, and easy-to-use, FreeRealTime.com's
One Point service will give our members the ability to easily track all
of their personal accounts online while keeping on top of the financial
markets with real-time market information, news, research tools, and
commentary," added Gunn.
"We are very excited that FreeRealTime.com has chosen VerticalOne's
service to further enhance their customers' online experience," said
Sandra Dunn, Vice President of Marketing at VerticalOne. "More
importantly, through valued partners such as FreeRealTime.com, more and
more end users around the world are gaining access to our personal
aggregation services, empowering them to manage their lives more
effectively and efficiently."
About FreeRealTime.com FreeRealTime.com, Inc. is a leading digital
financial media company providing an array of stock market data,
business information and sophisticated research and management tools
for institutional investors, brokers, and independent investors.
FreeRealTime.com has been recognized as a leader by such notable
sources as CNBC, Online Investor, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal,
Nielsen//NetRatings, and The Los Angeles Times. Visit
FreeRealTime.com's Web site at freerealtime.com.
About VerticalOne, Corporation Headquartered in Atlanta, VerticalOne
enables the next generation of Internet content personalization
services for consumers. VerticalOne has built an information
infrastructure that will empower Internet destination sites to offer
their online customers a single point-of-access to a wide variety of
personal content and account information including reward programs,
communications, investments, bank statements, and other bills or
personal accounts. VerticalOne's distribution partners include Air2Web,
AnyDay.com, enTotal, GO Network, Internet Appliance Network,
iVillage.com, LookSmart, MoneyPark, MyWay.com and its over 1,000 site
partners, OnMoney.com, Pro2Net, Security First Network Bank,
SmartMoney, The Motley Fool, VirtualBank and WFN. VerticalOne's Privacy
Statement is certified by both TRUSTe(SM) and BBBOnLine(R), and the
company is certified by Internet Security Systems (ISS) and
Verisign(TM). VerticalOne is a wholly-owned subsidiary of S1
Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), the world's largest provider of
Internet-based solutions for the financial services industry. More
information about VerticalOne can be obtained from the World Wide Web
at verticalone.com or by email to marketing@verticalone.com
Safe Harbor. Except for any historical information contained herein,
the matters discussed in this news release contain forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those set forth in the
forward-looking statements. Matters relating to the Company's traffic,
business expansion and initiatives, subscriber growth, and site usage
reflect current information and involve certain risks and
uncertainties, including, without limitation, changes in product
demand, changes in competition and other economic conditions. These
statements may or may not be indicative of future demand and
developments. Risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's
filings with the SEC. Prospective investors are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on forward- looking statements. FreeRealTime.com
undertakes no obligation to update or release publicly the result of
any revisions to these statements that may be made to reflect future
events, developments or circumstances.
SOURCE FreeRealTime.com, Inc.
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CONTACT: Jeffrey Goldberger of Stern & Co., 212-888-0044; or Brad Gunn,
President & Co-CEO of FreeRealTime.com, Inc., 949-833-2959
WEB PAGE: freerealtime.com |
