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Zecco Trading Launches Streaming Market Data Platform for Active Traders

Burlingame, CA, February 26, 2008 — Zecco Trading, Inc. (www.zeccotrading.com), an online brokerage widely known for providing its customers free stock trading, announced today that it has added advanced web-based market data and technical analysis solutions to its platform.

Powered by QuoteMedia, Inc., the new platform offers traders a completely customizable trading cockpit, which includes:

  • Streaming real time quotes
  • Streaming Level 2 quotes for market depth
  • Streaming options chains
  • Streaming news including portfolio based, sector-based and topic-based
  • Streaming charts with advanced technical studies
  • Integrated stock screener
  • Streaming US and global indices
  • Streaming real time market movers
  • Historical data
  • Comprehensive research, including company financial data and filings
  • Sector heat maps
  • Completely customizable interface and portfolios
  • Ability to track up to 10 portfolios

The new streaming data platform will be available to all Zecco Trading customers on a subscription basis.

"Zecco Trading has a very significant number of active traders on our platform, where they already enjoy lightning fast executions and 10 free stock trades every month", said Jeroen Veth, CEO of Zecco Holdings, Inc. "Now we are proud to offer them this world-class market data platform. Coming on the heels of our advanced options analytics launch, this further illustrates that we take the needs of the active trader very seriously and are building a sophisticated platform for them."`

Zecco Trading has aggressively expanded its trading tools over the past year, including:

  • 3 and 4 legged options trading capabilities
  • Advanced options analytics platform
  • Enhanced stock screener
  • Tax planning and optimization tools powered by Gainskeeper®

"With equity market volatility as high as it is right now, investors need a powerful arsenal of tools at their fingertips," added Veth. "And Zecco Trading is the place to get these tools."

About Zecco Trading, Inc.

Headquartered in Ontario, California, Zecco Trading, Inc, is an online brokerage offering customers free stock trading, providing a refreshing alternative to traditional brokers like E*TRADE, Charles Schwab, and TDAmeritrade.

Zecco Trading is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zecco Holdings, Inc. which provides www.zecco.com users to a revolutionary financial community where great investing ideas can be freely shared, debated and tested. Notable backers of Zecco Holdings include Velocity Capital, LundKenner (an early investor in Skype), and Boekhoorn M&A. Zecco/Zecco.com is not a securities broker/dealer. All securities and investments – including the 10 free trades per month, $4.50 thereafter offer – are offered through Zecco Trading, Inc., member FINRA / SIPC.

About QuoteMedia, Inc.

QuoteMedia is a leading software developer and syndicator of financial market information and streaming financial data solutions to media, corporations, online brokerages and financial services companies. The Company licenses interactive stock research tools such as streaming real-time quotes, market research, news, charting, option chains, NASDAQ level 2, TSX/TSXV market depth, LSE level 2, SEC filings, corporate financials, insider reports, market indices, portfolio management systems, and data feeds. QuoteMedia provides data and services for companies such as the NASDAQ, the OTCBB, Forbes.com, Scotia Capital, Dow Jones & Company, Southwest Securities, General Electric, Motorola, Automated Financial Systems, FBRDirect, AIM Trimark, Zacks Investment Research, Business Wire, Regal Securities, Broadridge Financial Systems, ChoiceTrade, QTrade, Schaeffer's Investment Research, WallStreet*E and others. For more information, please visit: www.quotemedia.com.

Zecco Announces Partnership with GainsKeeper® and Margin Rate Sale

Burlingame, CA, December 6, 2007 – Zecco Holdings, Inc (www.zecco.com), which offers users a financial community and is widely known for providing access to free stock trading through its wholly owned subsidiary, Zecco Trading Inc., announced today the launch of performance tracking and tax planning tools powered by GainsKeeper®, a part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services that provides automated financial tools and services to the investment community. Zecco also announced a margin rate sale that will run through April 30, 2008, allowing its members to hold money in their margin accounts at one of the lowest rates in the industry.

For more information, visit www.wolterskluwer.com.

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Zecco Launches Major Upgrade to Trading, Options Analytics, Financial Community Platforms

Among Enhancements, Online Brokerage Adds Options Analytics Tools, 3 and 4 Legged Options Trading and Tax-Planning/Performance Tools

BURLINGAME, CA, November 26, 2007 – Zecco Holdings, Inc. (www.zecco.com), which offers users a financial community and is widely known for providing access to free stock trading through its wholly owned subsidiary, Zecco Trading, Inc., today announced a major functionality upgrade, including: 1) new options analytics tools, 2) 3 and 4 legged options trading, 3) an improved stock screener, 4) tax-planning and performance tools powered by Gainskeeper and 5) significant enhancements to the ZeccoShare social networking community.

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Zecco Opens Leading Financial Social Network, ZeccoShare, to All Investors

Revolutionary Community Allows Investors to Show Recent Trades, Share Portfolio Holdings, Directly Communicate with Other Members

Burlingame, CA, October 15, 2007 – Building on the success of the invitation-only early release of ZeccoShare, online financial services company Zecco Holdings, Inc., today opened up its powerful investor network to all 70,000 members and anyone else who wishes to join. Now, anyone who visits Zecco.com can create a free account and begin using ZeccoShare, a financial social networking community.

“The power of ZeccoShare is its transparency,” said Jeroen Veth, Zecco’s chief executive officer. “The old stock trading blogs and forums let traders debate and share investing ideas, but there was no way to filter out hype and wishful thinking from serious investing insight. ZeccoShare changes all of that.

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Zecco Partners with The Motley Fool to offer User-Generated Stock Rating Service

Zecco.com Users to Access and Contribute to The Motley Fool’s CAPS Stock Rating Service

Burlingame, CA, June 13, 2007 – Zecco.com, the free online investing community that also provides access to $0 stock trading, today announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with The Motley Fool to offer access to CAPS, a free stock rating service, within the Zecco community. The partnership will enhance each company’s community, spreading their members’ collective wisdom to thousands of new investors.

CAPS allows users to recommend stocks and tracks the performance of those recommendations in real-time. Stocks are then rated from one to five stars. Zecco’s users can now directly access CAPS ratings for stocks researched and discussed on Zecco.com. This means that CAPS will pool the intelligence and resources of the Zecco and The Motley Fool communities to help people identify the best stocks to buy – and ones to avoid.

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ZECCO HOLDINGS HIRES BARRY FISCHER AS GENERAL COUNSEL, CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER

Fischer is Latest Executive to Join Growing Online Discount Brokerage’s Executive Team

BURLINGAME, CA, May 22, 2007 – Zecco Holdings (Zecco), the company behind free stock trading site, Zecco.com, announced today that Barry Fischer has joined the company as General Counsel, while also serving as Chief Compliance Officer for the Zecco.com brokerage, Zecco Trading. Mr. Fischer brings more than 20 years experience to the position, and is the latest industry veteran to join the growing executive team, which has added five senior-level professionals with a combined century of industry experience since the brokerage launched last autumn.

“With our exceptional growth since launching Zecco.com last year, the value that such a strong and experienced leader brings to Zecco Trading is immeasurable,” said Jeroen Veth, Zecco’s CEO. “Barry will ensure that we continue to adhere to all SEC, NASD and exchange regulations while allowing us to provide our members with the free trading and other brokerage services they expect.

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Zecco Disputes Wells Fargo's Claim to be Best Commission-Free Online Trading

Wells Fargo Restricts to a Few What Zecco Provides access to for All.

Burlingame, California, February 13, 2007 – Zecco.com, the industry's first online trading site that provides access to zero commission trading, points out that Wells Fargo's new offer requires a high balance and gives investors too few free trades.

"We are pleased to welcome another legacy bank with a half hearted offer to the free trade community, but it's too little, too late," says Jeroen Veth, CEO of Zecco. Zecco provides access to up to 480 stock trades per year with a minimum balance of as little as $0 through its association with Zecco Trading, a division of Equinox Securities, Inc. a NASD, SIPC member firm.  "The old-school banks are trying to get into the free trading game, but all of them have a huge catch and none of them deliver value to investors like Zecco." 

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ZECCO.COM OFFER OF FREE ONLINE TRADING SPURS IMMEDIATE REACTION FROM BANK OF AMERICA

Banking Giant Requires Much Higher Balance, Offers Fewer Free Trades

LOS ANGELES, CA October 11, 2006— Zecco.com today announced that Bank of America Corp. reacted to their launch of zero cost trading on Zecco.com by initiating a free trading program of their own. However, Bank of America accounts require a $25,000 balance versus the $2,500 [reduced to $0 minimums as of June 5, 2007, margin accounts require $2,000 minimum] required to open a Zecco account. In addition, Bank of America only offers 30 free trades a month, while Zecco offers 40 trades per month.

“The Bank of America announcement validates our free trading concept on Zecco.com” said Jeroen Veth CEO of Zecco.com. “When we launched our zero commission trading for everyone, we knew it was going to transform the market, but we’re unimpressed by Bank of America’s half-hearted effort. A minimum $25,000 balance? That’s a lot of money.”

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At Zecco Trading, you can make up to 10 free stock trades in any one month that you maintain a $2500 minimum account net equity. After that, you pay only $4.50 per stock trade. Options trades are $4.50 plus $.50 per contract. Only the first account of any account type is eligible for the Zecco Trading, Free Trading program. Any multiple accounts of the same type with the same registration are not eligible for the free trading program. Free Trading Program is only available through Zecco.com. $0 minimum to open cash and IRA accounts.

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