BONDDESK GROUP LAUNCHES MUNITICKER; CUSTOMIZABLE TOOL BRINGS ORDER TO REAL-TIME DATA

BondDesk Partners with The Bond Buyer, Introduces Version of MuniTicker to Online Subscribers

NEW YORK, NY – February 9, 2005 – BondDesk Group ("BondDesk"), a privately held company and a leading retail fixed income Alternative Trading System, today announced the official launch of MuniTicker, a fully-customizable tool that harnesses and filters MSRB data, allowing users to monitor and analyze market activity in real-time. The launch follows last week’s beta testing period with select BondDesk clients.

“MuniTicker enables subscribers to use the MSRB data to make intelligent decisions without sacrificing a second to decipher the information,” said Rob Slaymaker, BondDesk Group CEO. “By providing a fully customizable tool, we can bring clarity and focus to an opaque market.”

Through BondDesk’s strategic partnership with The Bond Buyer, a Thomson Media publication and the only daily newspaper committed to serving the municipal bond industry, a version of MuniTicker is now available to subscribers to The Bond Buyer Online at www.bondbuyer.com. “We are extremely pleased to be able to offer our online subscribers a tool to help them organize and understand the MSRB data,” said Colin Minnihan, publisher of The Bond Buyer.

The full-featured MuniTicker allows users to customize multiple tickers with 11 different search criteria, and create CUSIPs watch lists. Users can view a daily summary for each issue, indicating the number of current daily trades, total trade amount, and the yield high and low. The MuniTicker also features a drop-down to set tickers to show specific lists, such as New York municipals, California municipals or general obligation bonds.

For more information on MuniTicker or to sign up for instant access, visit www.muniticker.com.
For more information on The Bond Buyer or to access their real-time pricing information, visit www.bondbuyer.com.

About BondDesk
BondDesk Group is a privately held company and a leading retail fixed income Alternative Trading System in the U.S. and Canada. The BondDesk ATS, run by BondDesk broker dealer subsidiary, BondDesk Trading LLC, connects broker-dealers through a centralized marketplace. The BondDesk ATS is one of the largest market destinations for trading fixed income in the U.S., offering a diverse pool of liquidity. With over 16,000 live taxable and tax-exempt offerings from over 80 leading dealers, BondDesk transacts in excess of 14,000 tickets daily. BondDesk's 14 broker dealer equity partners include bulge bracket firms, regional firms, online broker dealers, and correspondent networks. BondDesk has over 100 employees, with key offices in California, Michigan, and New York.

The Bond Buyer and Thomson Media
Since 1891, The Bond Buyer (www.bondbuyer.com), published by Thomson Media, has been the only daily newspaper entirely committed to serving the municipal bond industry. It offers subscribers comprehensive news, analysis and data from the public finance arena that is not available anywhere else. The Bond Buyer delivers critical intelligence, including market statistics, new-issue calendars, requests for proposals, notices of sale, bond redemptions and employment opportunities. It’s online counterpart, The Bond Buyer Online, delivers breaking news posted daily, as well as detailed charts and figures. Thomson Media (www.thomsonmedia.com) is a leading provider of information, data and software tools for professionals in the financial services and related technologies markets. In addition to The Bond Buyer, its primary products and businesses include: American Banker, Financial Planning, Securities Industry News, Accounting Today, Credit Card Management and TFP's The Global Banking Resource and Payments & Risk Solutions Products. More than 750,000 clients use Thomson Media's publications, databases and work solutions worldwide.

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