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Communicator Extends Hub IM To FXall Clients; Platform Enables Real-Time Communication, Collaboration and Content Delivery for Foreign Exchange Brokers and Traders.


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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2003

Communicator Inc is making available Hub IM, its platform for real-time communication, collaboration and content delivery, to FXall's client base of more than 500 institutions and thousands of users. FXall's buy-side clients can choose to access messaging, collaboration forums and the global address book of key investors across 2000 investment institutions. Hub IM is offering secure, electronic one-to-one and one-to-many communications among FXall's customers who select the Hub IM solution.

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FXall and Communicator Inc Extend Relationship

FXall is an integrated portal that provides full automation for every stage of the transaction chain--from research to trading and settlement. FXall and Communicator Inc have been working together since May 2001, when FXall chose Communicator's Hub Content and Portals service as a means to develop and operate its research platform. The relationship grew out of Communicator's expertise in digital identity management, multi-enterprise content aggregation and experience operating gated community gat·ed community  
n.
A subdivision or neighborhood, often surrounded by a barrier, to which entry is restricted to residents and their guests.
 industry portals. The co-branded content platform that Communicator and FXall have developed provides users with commingled research and information from all consortium members, as well as private content from each broker to their specific clients. This is all done with a single password.

Communicator Hub IM is already integrated into SecuritiesHub, a global fixed-income research and information portal, enabling buy-side customers to communicate in real-time with their sell-side colleagues at major Wall Street investment firms.

"Using Hub IM, FXall users are able to fully integrate into a complete communication and collaboration environment," said Communicator CEO Leo Leo, in astronomy
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 Schlinkert. "FXall is already an essential source of information for traders in the foreign exchange market. Adding a layer of secure electronic communication and collaboration increases FXall's prominence prominence /prom·i·nence/ (prom´i-nins) a protrusion or projection.

frontonasal prominence
 in its clients' workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. , helping make brokers and traders even more efficient."

Hub IM: Secure, Real-Time Communication and Collaboration

Communicator Hub IM combines real-time messaging and discussion group forums with instantaneous in·stan·ta·ne·ous  
adj.
1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous.

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 delivery of information and other important content or documents. It is integrated with a directory that uses a company's business rules to manage who has access to whom and how they can be accessed, combined with a wide range of message tracking, archiving and security protections. Hub IM is delivered as a hosted, managed service. For more information about Communicator Hub IM, visit www.hubim.com.

About Communicator Inc

Communicator Inc provides communication, collaboration and content solutions that address the business and technology challenges of the extended enterprise. Organizations in financial services, government and life sciences, among other industries, often have difficulty securing their communications and access to information across disparate systems, and managing identities of individuals, employees, customers and partners. In addition, multi-enterprise communities introduce security and compliance challenges that fundamentally cannot be managed internally by any one of the participating organizations. Communicator Inc, through its technology and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality  approach to federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
  • The virtual reunion, or assembled identity, of a person's user information (or ), stored across multiple distinct identity management systems.
 management, content aggregation and real-time messaging, acts as a neutral third-party, connecting the right people to the right information in real-time. Communicator Inc is a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 headquartered in White Plains, New York For other places with the same name, see White Plains (disambiguation).
White Plains is a city in south-central Westchester County, New York, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the Hudson River and
. For more information, visit www.communicator.com, call 914-872-2800 or email info@communicator.com.


    About FXall

    --  FXall is an electronic trading platform offering customers
        foreign currency trade execution, access to research and
        straight through processing.

    --  FXall was launched as a fully automated portal on 10 May,
        2001. FXall's comprehensive functionality includes easy
        multi-bank access, portfolio management tools that enable
        execution of entire portfolios of trade, leading quality
        research and analysis available through a single sign-on, and
        24-hour access to a multi-lingual support center.

    --  In the past year FXall has won the following awards:

        --  March 2003 - ranked number one multibank portal by Global
            Investor's "Foreign Exchange Survey 2003".

        --  November 2002 - voted 'Best Multibank Portal' in FX Week
            awards 2002.

        --  November 2002 - 'Best Multibank FX Portal' in the 2002
            Euromoney.com Internet Awards.

        --  October 2002 - recognised as 'Best of the Web' by Forbes
            magazine.

        --  June 2002 - ranked number one in Global Investor's e-Forex
            Road Test of FX platforms by 5 leading asset managers.

        --  May 2002 - voted best overall multi-bank portal for
            research, for trading, and for straight through processing
            in the "Euromoney Forex Poll 2002".

        --  March 2002 - ranked number one multibank portal by Global
            Investor's "Foreign Exchange Survey 2002".

    --  There is no fee to transact for customers and other price
        takers at FXall.

    --  There are 43 leading financial institutions providing
        liquidity over FXall - the most of any multibank portal.

    --  The vast majority of FXall's providers are fully integrated
        with automated rate engines and straight through processing.

    --  FXall's Customer Advisory Board numbers 32 corporations and
        institutional investors.

    --  FXall has more than 500 customers signed for trading.

    --  Under the European Union's uniform regulatory directives, the
        FSA is FXall's principal supervisory regulator for business in
        the EU.

    --  FXall has SAS 70 certification.

    --  FXall has offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Singapore and
        Hong Kong.

    --  FXall is an independent company with its own board of
        directors and management team.


Further information on FXall is available at www.fxall.com.

FXall's services are not intended for, and are not available to, private customers, and are not intended for distribution into any jurisdiction where such distribution is restricted by law or regulation. FXall's services do not constitute investment advice or an advertisement, offer, or solicitation solicitation

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 of an offer, for the purchase or sale of any investment, securities or other property, or a representation that any investment, security or other property is suitable for any person.

FXall may act through FX Alliance, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 (a Delaware, USA limited liability company), FX Alliance Limited (regulated by the Financial Services Authority The Financial Services Authority ("FSA") is an independent non-departmental public body and quasi-judicial body that regulates the financial services industry in the United Kingdom. Its main office is based in Canary Wharf, London, with another office in Edinburgh. ), FX Alliance International, LLC (ARBN ARBN Australian Registered Body Number
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 097 253 640, a Delaware, USA company, members' liability limited).
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