BridgeFeed 4 Rolls Out Across Triarch, TIB Sites Worldwide.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March. 22, 2000

Offers Five Times the Capacity of Common Selective Datafeeds

Bridge Information Systems (BRIDGE(R)), the largest provider of financial news and information services in North America, today announced the availability of its BridgeFeed 4.0 service through the Triarch desktop integration platform. Reengineered to provide greatly enhanced performance and new classes of market data, BridgeFeed 4 is capable of delivering over 100,000 active instruments in record format, plus pages, filterable time & sales, history, chains, news, analytics and more, all through an open application programming interface (API).

"Clients around the world have long depended on platforms for the benefits of data integration, entitlements control and publish & subscribe capabilities that they offer," said Thomas M. Wendel, BRIDGE Chairman and CEO. "However, the market has long suffered from a lack of choice when it comes to the provision of data such as records, news, analytics and history. BRIDGE is providing that choice with reliability, throughput and flexibility through BridgeFeed 4. We're all very enthused, as are the hundreds of sites that have already rolled this product into production around the globe."

"When our clients commit to integrating BridgeFeed into their operations, they're choosing a datafeed built for the future," said Joe Ratterman, BRIDGE's Chief Technology Officer. "While other selective datafeeds are offering less and less data due to the limitations of their technology, we're expanding the abilities of BridgeFeed with each release. From the ATM switches at the core of our network, to the scalability of our distributed datacenter architecture, right down to the unique transaction framework for record delivery we utilize in the BridgeFeed API, this is a technology platform built to grow with our clients' needs, as well as with the growing demands of the financial markets themselves."

"BridgeFeed is about two things: first, giving our clients a choice when deciding where to source the data essential to running their real-time driven applications and desktops. This is increasingly important in light of exploding data traffic and the added need for vendor redundancy it imposes," said Joe Sabelja, Vice President of BRIDGE's datafeed & integration unit. "Second, BridgeFeed offers the financial community faster speed, greater capacity, and completely unique functionality as compared to the market's most common datafeed. Things like record-based fundamentals, 21 days of tick data, categorization of over 450 news wires, and truly filterable time & sales data are just a few examples of the ground breaking features in this single integrated datafeed."

In addition, BridgeFeed handlers are available for many other systems from BRIDGE and a host of other vendors, including Tibco, which has recently released its BridgeFeed 4 feed handler for the TIB data distribution platform.

BridgeFeed is a full service real-time interactive datafeed, carrying the universe of BRIDGE's exchange-based and contributed data across the world's financial markets. All major sectors are covered, including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money markets, energy, commodities and derivatives. A host of data types are supported, including quotes, pages, Time & Sales (filterable by exchange, price, volume and time,) Level II & order book, chains and analytic displays. Real-time, delayed and fundamental data are all available, as well as news and research from 450 sources categorized with source specific and Bridge-Master category codes for rapid filtration. With feed handlers developed to interface with the industry's largest platforms, such as BTRS, Triarch and TIB, and equipped with a functionally rich C and Java based developer's toolkit, BridgeFeed can be quickly integrated into almost any distribution environment.

BRIDGE, together with its principle operating units, Bridge Information Systems, Telerate, Inc., BridgeNews, and Bridge Trading, is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America -- and one of the fastest growing in the world.

BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web-browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic tools and trading room integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600+ BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news that affect securities markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide.

BRIDGE, with 5000+ employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is headquartered in New York City with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com.