December 29, 1999-Vancouver, B.C.: AlphaTrade.com^TM (OTC BB: EBNK) is very pleased to announce Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc. will now have AlphaTrade’s E-Gate^TM financial applications on their website. E-Gate is the world’s first and only interactive, fully customizable financial hub. All E-Gate financial modules can now be accessed using AlphaTrade’s Remote Control Device (RCD) now located on Stifel Nicolaus’s web site www.stifel.com.

In addition to custom work on Stifel’s website, AlphaTrade will offer the firm all of its streaming, browser-based, real time data tools. As new modules are developed or enhanced the E-Gate financial tools will be seamlessly up-graded. AlphaTrade believes that investors are beginning to expect streaming financial information, not as a premium, but as a core offering. Stifel Nicolaus has recognized this growing phenomenon and is taking steps to ensure their clients have access to the latest and most versatile financial information.

Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc. is a full service brokerage and investment banking firm located in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded in 1890 and today has approximately 350 Investment Executives throughout the Midwest in 58 locations across 14 states. The Company’s Parent firm, Stifel Financial trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SF.

AlphaTrade’s is compatible with Red Hat's Linux. (Nasdaq: RHAT) Red Hat distributes and services its own version of Linux, a freely available operating system that competes with Microsoft products and the America On Line Browser ( NYSE: AOL) ensures that all clients of Stifel will be able to access the E-Gate financial tools. AlphaTrade has targeted the retail investor channeled through brokerage firms as the prime users for the E-Gate^TM hub.

AlphaTrade’s business strategy is to provide superior applications in order to build a large subscriber base. Like AOL; ( NYSE: AOL), the Company’s focus over the next 12 month period is to build its subscriber base to over 1 million users.

AlphaTrade.com^TM is a true E-Commerce Internet-based company with "Web-to-desktop" convergence technologies and applications. Without ever having to purchase, lease, or download software the AlphaWare^TM line of applications are designed to offer computer users endless business and personal program choices available anytime, anywhere through any modem or cable connection.

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