Vancouver BC - January 31, 2001 - A recent move into Java-based Internet trading systems by online juggernaut Charles Schwab (SCH: NYSE) validates AlphaTrade's (OTCBB: EBNK) decision two years ago to build a Java-based platform for online trading. In a Jan. 15 article in Internet Week*, Schwab said it will use BEA System's WebLogic Java application server and development tools to build new Internet trading systems.

"This is great news for us" said Gordon Muir, CEO of AlphaTrade.com. "We made this decision over two years ago and have already successfully launched our first suite of Java applications for the North American markets."

AlphaTrade's unique trading platform will stream line the users on-line experience and augment the brokers existing services for their clients. Once integrated into E-Gate™, AlphaTrade's marquis suite of applications, the platform will enable customers to trade from multiple accounts from any brokerage firm licensed with E-Gate™, from anywhere in the world and in the language of their choice. E-Gate™ currently provides customers with Level 2, streaming financial data in 18 languages.

"This type of endorsement from Schwab and other Fortune 500 companies contemplating or developing Java applications lends strength to AlphaTrade's previous management's decisions," Muir said. "Our decisions were more than just visions, they are the wave of the future."

With over $850 billion in assets, Schwab carries considerable weight as to the direction of industry standards in on-line trading.

*"Schwab Throttles Up Java Apps," Internet Week, pg. 12, Jan. 15, 2001

About AlphaTrade.com

AlphaTrade is an e-commerce, Internet-based corporation with a unique and proprietary product called E-Gate. The company's goal is to provide investors access to financial information at less cost and greater convenience than any other existing product on the market today. Subscribers do not need to purchase, lease or download any software. All of the financial applications are available via the Internet for a low monthly subscription price.

Signing up is quick and easy. Go to www.alphatrade.com and click on the Subscribe button. Once you have completed the registration and filled out the exchange agreements you will be able to set up your own personal portfolio.

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