| March 31st,
2005 
Genesis' Laser has been
awarded "Platinum" class on NASDAQ's
Certified Partner Program
Announcing
NASDAQ's New Certified Partners Program
Helping You Make Informed
Decisions
In order to assist market participants
in choosing the software solution that is best
tailored to your trading needs, NASDAQ has initiated
the Certified Partners program with Service Bureaus
and front-end software providers. The program
launches today, March 8th, and highlights the
Service Bureaus that provide optimal NASDAQ order-entry
and/or market making functionality such as:
- Enhanced order entry, market
making, and order types,
- Automated routing to NASDAQ,
and
- New market enhancements in
a timely fashion.
NASDAQ has rated each Service
Bureau as Platinum, Silver,
or Bronze.
What is the Certified
Partners Program?
Beginning in early 2004, NASDAQ began the process
of classifying each Service Bureau by level and
by type of product: order-entry or market making.
All service bureaus were ranked based on qualification
criteria, and are categorized as "Bronze"
until evaluation is finalized. Many firms will
qualify for elevated status Silver or Platinum.
The current rankings, as of March
31, 2005, are:
| |
Platinum |
Silver |
Bronze |
| Market
Making Software |
• Bloomberg
- SSEOMS
• Lava Trading, Inc.
- Colorpalette
• Renaissance
Trading Technologies - Renaissance Market
Access
• Royal Blue - Fidessa
• Sungard - U2/UMA/Brass |
|
|
| Order
Entry Software |
•
Genesis Securities, LLC - Laser |
• E*Trade
Professional – Lightspeed
• FlexTrade Systems – FlexTRADER |
• Advanced
Financial Applications
• Belzberg
Technologies, Inc.
• Bon Trade
Solutions, LLC
• Carlin Equities
Corp.
• Confluence Technologies
• Davidge Data Systems
• Direct Access Financial Corp.
• Edgetrade.com, Inc.
• FTEN, Inc.
• Global
Brokerage Corp.
• MB Trading
• Pink Sheets, LLC
•
RushGroup Technologies, Inc.
•
Sonic Technologies LLC
•
Spartan Technologies, LLC
•
REDIPlus
• Sterling Financial
Systems, Inc.
• Track Data
Securities Corp
• Tradeware
Systems, LLC
• Trinix Securities,
LLC
• ViewTrade Securities,
Inc.
|
|
NASDAQ is pleased to be offering
the Certified Partners Program in order to support
market participants in choosing a software or
access solution that is best tailored to suit
their trading needs. Service bureaus were rated
using the attached criteria.
Should you need more information about the program,
please visit our Web
site. If you have any questions, please feel
free to contact:
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