Moneyline Telerate to License TradeWeb Market Data

- Proprietary Data for U.S. Treasuries and Agencies, TBA-MBS and Euro Sovereigns to be Included in Newly Acquired Telerate Platform - 

NEW YORK, NY (October 18, 2001) Moneyline Telerate, a leading provider of hosted electronic commerce applications and financial content, and TradeWeb LLC, the leader in online fixed-income markets, today announced that Moneyline Telerate has become the exclusive enterprise licensee of TradeWeb's proprietary market data. Under the agreement TradeWeb's U.S. Treasury and agency real time market prices will be distributed to all Moneyline Telerate customers.

"Dealers drive markets, and now they drive Moneyline Telerate. We are very excited about our partnership with TradeWeb, the most liquid and successful fixed-income electronic trading platform in the world between dealers and their customers, with trillions traded," said Jon Robson, CEO of Moneyline Telerate.

Jim Toffey, President and CEO of TradeWeb, said: "We are pleased to partner with Moneyline Telerate to make our market data available to Telerate customers. As a key component of Telerate, the data will be part of an elite package of content that provides significant benefits to institutional investors. We are very confident in the revival of Telerate under Moneyline Telerate's leadership and delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to its future success."

Vic Simone, a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs andamp; Co. and Chairman of the Board of TradeWeb, said: "The dealer community is thrilled with the new relationship between TradeWeb and Moneyline Telerate. The data offering that TradeWeb and its dealers have developed is the finest available in the dealer-to-customer sector and we expect it will be an invaluable resource to Telerate users."

Moneyline Telerate today announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of selected assets of Telerate, in which it will include the TradeWeb Treasury and agency data as a core product offering. Moneyline Telerate will also have the exclusive license for TradeWeb data for TBA agency mortgage-backed securities and euro-sovereign debt securities, which will be offered to Telerate customers as optional subscription services.

About TradeWeb

Headquartered in the United States, TradeWeb LLC is the leader in online fixed-income markets with more than 1.2 million trades executed and total volume exceeding $6 trillion since its inception in 1998. TradeWeb's multi-dealer model links eighteen of the world's leading dealers of fixed-income securities with more than 800 buy-side institutions in North America and Europe. The company's technological platform is utilized by clients to trade U.S. Treasury and agency debt securities, euro-sovereign debt securities, TBA agency mortgage-backed securities and commercial paper. For more information about TradeWeb, please visit the company's website at www.tradeweb.com or contact John Demitroff at 201/499-4076.

About Moneyline Telerate

Moneyline Telerate is a leading global provider of aggregation, distribution and transaction services to suppliers and users of capital markets content and liquidity. With the world's premier benchmark fixed-income content, web-based distribution platform and transaction systems, Moneyline Telerate provides financial services firms with cost-effective, flexible methods for using content to drive investment decisions and order flow across new and existing electronic channels. The firm, established in 1998, is headquartered in New York City. For further information about Moneyline Telerate, please visit www.Moneyline.com.