Vancouver BC - Dec 7, 1999, - AlphaTrade.com (OTCBB: EBNK) is pleased to announce that the company has signed an agreement with Bridge Information Systems Canada Inc. to enhance its financial hub, E-Gate. BRIDGE will supply its BridgeFeed Broadcast service to power E-Gate with North American equity quotes, NASDAQ Level II data and market-leading news and analysis from BridgeNews. BridgeFeed Broadcast is a real-time market datafeed that carries the full complement of BRIDGE’s exchange-based and contributed data and news across the world’s financial markets on hundreds of thousands of securities.

AlphaTrade customers will experience exceptional data quality and reliability of service via BRIDGE information. AlphaTrade’s E-Gate is the only Internet Financial Hub to have multiple feed providers which should eliminate any downtime for subscribers. AlphaTrade is going to great lengths to provide subscribers with a high quality service that is unmatched in the industry today.

About AlphaTrade
AlphaTrade.com (OTCBB: EBNK) is an Internet-based company developing “Web-to-desktop” convergence technologies. The applications designed by AlphaTrade offers computer users endless business and personal choices all delivered via a nimble, thin client platform in the browser without the need to download any software.

About Bridge
BRIDGE, together with its principle operating units, Bridge Information Systems, BridgeNews, Bridge Trading and its subsidiary Telerate, is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America -- and fastest growing in the world. Together with its subsidiary SAVVIS, BRIDGE is one of the world’s largest providers of managed IP networks, with more than 210 Cascade ATM/frame-relay switches throughout the major cities in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim and the Americas.

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.

	Investor Relations	Licensing Opportunities
Contact	Cynthia DeMonte	James Chan
	Demonte & Associates	AlphaTrade.com
	1-212-473-3700	1-877-288-7799
	Cdemonte@aol.com	james@alphatrade.com

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