New Order in NTL Bankruptcy Court Matter Temporarily Extends Interim Relief Pending Possible Further Proceedings.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2003

Maxcor Financial Inc., the U.S. broker-dealer subsidiary of Maxcor Financial Group Inc. (Nasdaq: MAXF), announced today that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has issued a new order in the dispute swirling around the settlement of when-issued trading contracts effected in the common stock of NTL Inc. prior to NTL's emergence from bankruptcy on January 10th.

The new order, issued yesterday afternoon, extends until 5:00 p.m. on February 5, 2003 - after which time it dissolves - the interim relief granted to Maxcor and other participants in the when-issued market pursuant to the Court's prior order of January 16, 2003. The prior order gave sellers the right to require buyers, subject to a full reservation of rights, to settle their transactions on a 1-for-4 reverse split adjusted basis in order to reflect the three-fourths reduction in capitalization that NTL effected upon its emergence from bankruptcy. Because the prior order was entered on an emergency basis, without the commencement of formal adversary proceedings against all of the parties affected thereby, the new order extends the duration of the interim relief for an additional week to provide parties who wish to seek to continue its provisions on a permanent injunctive basis or to obtain alternative relief a prior opportunity to commence the proceedings necessary to do so before the interim relief ends.

The new order states that it should not "be interpreted as suggesting or implying any findings of fact or conclusions of law with respect to any issue," and expressly reserves the rights of all parties.

Maxcor stated that it continues to assess its next actions, which may include additional proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court or elsewhere. Although many of Maxcor's counterparties, in accordance with the January 16th order, have settled their when-issued transactions on a split-adjusted basis, others have not. Given that the Court's actions to date expressly reserve the rights of all parties, Maxcor cautioned that it could not currently predict with any certainty the ultimate outcome of the settlement disputes, or whether its previously announced estimate of their possible financial impact will be mitigated.

Maxcor Financial Inc. is an SEC-registered broker-dealer, specializing in institutional sales and trading operations in high-yield and distressed debt, municipal bonds, convertible securities and equities. Through its Euro Brokers division, Maxcor is also a leading domestic and international inter-dealer broker specializing in U.S. Treasury and federal agency bonds and repurchase agreements, emerging market debt products and other fixed income securities. Maxcor is a subsidiary of Maxcor Financial Group Inc., www.maxf.com, which employs approximately 500 persons worldwide and maintains principal offices in New York, London and Tokyo.

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