October 6, 2004, NEW YORK

SDS Selects Radianz for Provider Connectivity:
RADIANZ CONTINUES GROWTH TREND IN MARKET DATA SECTOR
Radianz, the leading global provider of financial connectivity services, today announced that SDS Financial Technologies, Inc. (SDS), a provider of customizable market data and electronic trading systems, has joined the Radianz financial community.

As a Radianz Provider, SDS will make available its SDSMarketWatch workstation, SDSTrader, and the SDS FIX service bureau over Radianz's shared infrastructure platform, which reaches over 10,000 financial services sites worldwide. MarketWatch provides a comprehensive package of market data, news, analytics and advanced charting. SDSTrader is a broker and clearing neutral order routing system providing connectivity for equities, option and futures. The SDS service bureau provides direct access to premium destinations such as NYBOT, NYMEX and ADR Navigator.

"We felt that Radianz was best suited to meet our distribution goals on a global basis and drastically reduce our implementation timeframes," said George Maragos, President of SDS Financial Technologies, Inc. "Moreover, through our Radianz connection, we will have access to a much broader network of potential users worldwide that are already on the Radianz Network."

"The addition of SDS to our growing list of providers is a great opportunity for Radianz to help facilitate the distribution of market information and trading technologies," said Chris Church, EVP strategic client development at Radianz. "As more and more market data vendors join the Radianz community, we become well positioned to create an environment that enables financial institutions and market data vendors to communicate pertinent trading information over one platform."

About SDS Financial Technologies, Inc (SDS).
Founded in 1988, SDS (www.sdsft.com) is a New York based, leading provider of market data and electronic trading solutions. SDS' extensive family of products includes the SDS MarketWatch market data suite of products (workstation, data feeds, and web services) and electronic order routing/execution platforms, (FIX and matching engines).

About Radianz
Radianz (www.radianz.com) is the leading provider of secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity to the global financial community. The Company's shared market infrastructure is a neutral platform that provides turnkey access to a broad array of pre-trade, trade, and post-trade applications from leading content and service providers across the straight-through processing (STP) chain. In 2004, the readers of WATERS magazine named Radianz "Best Network Provider." Radianz was founded by Reuters (LSE: RTR; NASDAQ: RTRSY) and Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) in June 2000 and operates as an independent company. Radianz and the lighthouse logo are trademarks of the Radianz group of companies worldwide.

CONTACTS:

For Radianz:
Patrick Kilhaney
Intermarket Communications
212-888-6115 Ext 223
Patrick@intermarket.com

Kelly O'Brien
Intermarket Communications
212-888-6115 Ext 256
Kelly@intermarket.com

For SDS
Cailin Kelly
SDS Financial Technologies
212-349-3300 Ext 17
cailink@sdsmarketwatch.com