NETFUTURES INTEGRATES INTO ZANER GROUP, LLC
New Structure Leverages Strength of Parent Company and Aligns Company
and Products in a Single Brand Name
CHICAGO, IL - September, 2004 - NetFutures, one of the largest and first on-line futures trading brokerages, announced today that it has completed its integration into Zaner Group, LLC ("Zaner"). The goal of the integration is to leverage the strength of the NetFutures online trading product and the 24-year success of Zaner (formerly Zaner & Company). The integration compliments the newly unveiled extensive www.zaner.com website, and allows Zaner to feature its product lines and to align its corporate and product brand identities.
As one of the largest IBs (introducing brokers) in the industry, Zaner will continue to be a leading provider of full-service, broker-assisted and self-directed commodities products to its established customer bases. Through its clearing partners, Zaner clears almost any derivative product in the world, provides discount, assisted and full-service brokerage services, and has recently added foreign exchange (forex) trading to its extensive trading product line. Zaner offers a complete line of products and services to futures traders of all levels, enabling a single-source approach that provides enhanced customer satisfaction and support.
Through its 'Information Gateway,' Zaner customers are provided information and access to extensive internal products as well as best-of-breed third-party resources that have been screened for their usefulness to all levels of futures traders, their reliability, and their ease of use. Additional benefits to the Information Gateway include consolidated customer support, trading control, and access to the leaders in systems trading.
Strategic partners announced by Zaner today include:
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FutureSource, a leading provider of futures and commodities charts, quotes, news and analysis.
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eSignal, a worldwide provider of time-sensitive financial information, real-time market data and decision support tools.
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Man Financial, a leading participant on the major securities and futures exchanges worldwide.
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Refco / RefcoFX, a multi-billion dollar clearing firm providing extensive financial products and services.
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Global Forex Trading (GFT), one of the world's most prominent leaders in online foreign exchange providing forex traders with the highest level of service, software and accountability in the industry.
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Iowa Grain, a leading brokerage and clearing firm specializing in the U.S. agricultural futures and options markets.
The current subscriber/customer base of these strategic partners represents over $10 billion in trading funds and operations in over 14 countries..
"By bringing NetFutures into the Zaner Group fold, which includes an extensive Information Gateway, we are reaffirming our commitment to building a worldwide platform over which to deliver the NetFutures product," said Matthew Zaner, President of Zaner Group, LLC. "We are very excited to be offering such a complete array of products and services under the Zaner umbrella, as well as working with this premier group of industry partners. This allows us to bring the best and most complete line of futures, forex and options services to our customers."
"Zaner and its partnerships represent a powerful new distribution channel that enables traders worldwide to avail themselves of Zaner's services, and a significant opportunity for its partners. By partnering with Zaner , these providers reinforce their industry leadership and build a wider customer base without the traditional cost to design, develop and launch a new value-added service," said John Dean, Vice President of FutureSource, a prominent news and quotes provider.
Peter Djuvik of Futures Magazine, commented, "Zaner has figured out a way to provide to both small and large traders the rich products and services of NetFutures and integrated access to valuable third party information. This comprehensive network provides Zaner with an instantaneous way to offer a more complete solution to its customers, allowing them to become a more important resource for these customers."
Zaner offers the following futures, options and forex services:
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Trading desk services that help to bridge the gap between broker-assisted trading and traditional discount desk services.
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Advisor-assisted trading with Zaner professional advisors that have the ability and expertise to help make intelligent investment decisions.
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Direct-access trading that allows customers access to virtually all exchanges across the globe.
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Choice of multiple trading platforms.
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Volume-pricing discounts.
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Auto-execution @ Zaner(tm), a seamless enhancement to TradeStation(tm) and J-Trader(tm) systems that processes signal and fill orders in real-time within fractions of a second.
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Systems trading with internal and third-party products that enable objective trading decisions on a consistent basis.
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Prime brokerage, which allows customers to trade forex in the name of Zaner's counter-parties, giving the necessary access to deal directly with large banks at the best pricing.
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Asset management services with leading Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs).
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News, data, quotes, charts and industry information.
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Education services such as coaching, seminars, real-time meetings, and technical studies.
About Zaner Group, LLC
Zaner Group, LLC is an
award-winning brokerage firm founded in 1980. Zaner provides a broad range of
financial products and services to clients throughout the world. Globally,
Zaner integrates client requirements with its extensive product offerings,
including exchange-traded derivatives (futures and commodities), prime brokerage services, foreign
exchange, OTC derivatives and asset management. Through Zaner and its
partners, customers are delivered futures, options and foreign exchange
products and services at a fraction of the cost of traditional full-cost
brokerage firms. Located in Chicago, IL, Zaner is a privately owned brokerage
firm offering services to institutions and individual traders.
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Detailed company information may be found at www.zaner.com or by calling 800.621.1414.