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Bondtrac Adds CMOs and MBSs to Bondtrac XT
Bondtrac Continues to Advance Offerings Variety and Volume
NEW YORK CITY, NY-April 4, 2003-Bondtrac, Inc., a leading provider of fixed-income
information for more than a decade, announced today that it has added CMOs and MBSs to
its fixed income market information service. Bondtrac's new source of CMOs and MBSs
is Jencks & Company, a broker dealer and content aggregator specializing
in US Government and Government-sponsored GNMA, Freddie-Mac and Fannie-Mae mortgage-backed securities.
Descriptive data for Jencks' CMOs is provided by Intex.
Bondtrac is the largest provider of fully disclosed offerings in municipal, corporate,
agency, zeros, internationals, US Treasury, CD and CMO markets. Bondtrac XT is available
to professional subscribers through www.bondtrac.com, and through private-labeled broker,
correspondent or customer web sites customized with the client firm's logos and brand identity.
Bondtrac clients include registered representatives, portfolio managers, correspondents, traders
& assistants, wealth managers, retail brokers and their customers, research analysts, trust
investment officers, capital markets groups and others who access fixed income information.
Bondtrac's CMO supplier, Jencks & Company, carries its own inventory, and also serves as an
inter-dealer broker for broker-dealers and dealer banks to create a central source for CMO
inventory. Jencks receives offerings postings from the majority of the broker dealer community.
"We're pleased to provide our customers with CMOs and mortgaged-back securities on Bondtrac. Just as we recently
added Briefing.com's market commentary and analysis, we have added CMOs to continue to make Bondtrac the most complete
fixed income information service available in the market," said Dan Powers, President of Bondtrac.
"Bondtrac clients and their customers represent the complete cross section of fixed income market
players, and we believe our CMO inventory provides them with new and exciting trade opportunity,
especially in today's market," said Stephen Jencks, President of Jencks and Company.
To view Bondtrac's entire inventory, visit www.bondtrac.com and sign up for a free trial subscription.
Bondtrac aggressively seeks new additions to its core services and to its offerings to display to its
40,000+ end users. In the past quarter, thousands of new offerings per day have been added to the Municipals
segment of Bondtrac, and thousands more have been added to Corporates and Agencies. Broker-dealers can contact
offerings@bondtrac.com to send their offerings to be displayed on Bondtrac.
About Bondtrac, Inc.
Bondtrac, a privately-held corporation founded in 1989, provides the largest fully disclosed source of more
than 20,000+ fresh Municipal, Corporate, Agency, CD, Zeros, STRIPs, Internationals, CMOs and US Treasury
offerings daily to more than 40,000 end users in brokerage firms and dealer banks. Bondtrac is available by
subscription to www.bondtrac.com and through firm-wide web site integrations that private-label Bondtrac for
client web sites. Bondtrac offices are located in New York City, San Francisco and Oklahoma City. For more information,
please visit www.bondtrac.com, or call Elizabeth Lewis, Vice President of Sales, at 212-297-6189.
About Jencks & Company
Jencks & Company is a registered broker dealer located in Seattle specializing in US Government and Government
sponsored GNMA, Freddie-Mac and Fannie-Mae mortgage-backed securities. Jencks & Company carries a broad range of
odd-lot CMO inventory and also aggregates the offerings from the majority of the dealer community. Jencks & Company
clears all of its trades through The Bank of New York.
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