New Structure Leverages Strength of Parent Company and
Aligns Company and Products in a Single Brand Name
CHICAGO, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- NetFutures, one of the largest and first
online futures trading brokerages, announced today that it has completed its
integration into Zaner Group, LLC ("Zaner"). The goal of the integration is to
leverage the strength of the NetFutures online trading product and the 24-year
success of Zaner (formerly Zaner & Company). The integration compliments the
newly unveiled extensive http://www.zaner.com website, and allows Zaner to
feature its product lines and to align its corporate and product brand
identities.
As one of the largest IBs (introducing brokers) in the industry, Zaner
will continue to be a leading provider of full-service, broker-assisted and
self-directed commodities products to its established customer bases. Through
its clearing partners, Zaner clears almost any derivative product in the
world, provides discount, assisted and full-service brokerage services, and
has recently added foreign exchange (forex) trading to its extensive trading
product line. Zaner offers a complete line of products and services to futures
traders of all levels, enabling a single-source approach that provides
enhanced customer satisfaction and support.
Through its "Information Gateway," Zaner customers are provided
information and access to extensive internal products as well as best-of-breed
third-party resources that have been screened for their usefulness to all
levels of futures traders, their reliability, and their ease of use.
Additional benefits to the Information Gateway include consolidated customer
support, trading control, and access to the leaders in systems trading.
Strategic partners announced by Zaner today include:
-- FutureSource, a leading provider of futures and commodities charts,
quotes, news and analysis.
-- eSignal, a worldwide provider of time-sensitive financial information,
real-time market data and decision support tools.
-- Man Financial, a leading participant on the major securities and
futures exchanges worldwide.
-- Refco / RefcoFX, a multi-billion-dollar clearing firm providing
extensive financial products and services.
-- Global Forex Trading (GFT), one of the world's most prominent leaders
in online foreign exchange providing forex traders with the highest
level of service, software and accountability in the industry.
-- Iowa Grain, a leading brokerage and clearing firm specializing in the
U.S. agricultural futures and options markets.
The current subscriber/customer base of these strategic partners
represents over $10 billion in trading funds and operations in over 14
countries.
"By bringing NetFutures into the Zaner Group fold, which includes an
extensive Information Gateway, we are reaffirming our commitment to building a
worldwide platform over which to deliver the NetFutures product," said Matthew
Zaner, President of Zaner Group, LLC. "We are very excited to be offering such
a complete array of products and services under the Zaner umbrella, as well as
working with this premier group of industry partners. This allows us to bring
the best and most complete line of futures, forex and options services to our
customers."
"Zaner and its partnerships represent a powerful new distribution channel
that enables traders worldwide to avail themselves of Zaner's services, and a
significant opportunity for its partners. By partnering with Zaner, these
providers reinforce their industry leadership and build a wider customer base
without the traditional cost to design, develop and launch a new value-added
service," said John Dean, Vice President of FutureSource, a prominent news and
quotes provider.
Peter Djuvik of Futures Magazine commented, "Zaner has figured out a way
to provide to both small and large traders the rich products and services of
NetFutures and integrated access to valuable third party information. This
comprehensive network provides Zaner with an instantaneous way to offer a more
complete solution to its customers, allowing them to become a more important
resource for these customers."
Zaner offers the following futures, options and forex services:
-- Trading desk services that help to bridge the gap between broker-
assisted trading and traditional discount desk services.
-- Advisor-assisted trading with Zaner professional advisors that have the
ability and expertise to help make intelligent investment decisions.
-- Direct-access trading that allows customers access to virtually all
exchanges across the globe.
-- Choice of multiple trading platforms.
-- Volume-pricing discounts.
-- Auto-execution @ Zaner(TM), a seamless enhancement to TradeStation(TM)
and J-Trader(TM) systems that processes signal and fill orders in
real-time within fractions of a second.
-- Systems trading with internal and third-party products that enable
objective trading decisions on a consistent basis.
-- Prime brokerage, which allows customers to trade forex in the name of
Zaner's counter-parties, giving the necessary access to deal directly
with large banks at the best pricing.
-- Asset management services with leading Commodity Trading Advisors
(CTAs).
-- News, data, quotes, charts and industry information.
-- Education services such as coaching, seminars, real-time meetings, and
technical studies.
About Zaner Group, LLC
Zaner Group, LLC is an award-winning brokerage firm founded in 1980. Zaner
provides a broad range of financial products and services to clients
throughout the world. Globally, Zaner integrates client requirements with its
extensive product offerings, including exchange-traded derivatives (futures
and commodities), prime brokerage services, foreign exchange, OTC derivatives
and asset management. Through Zaner and its partners, customers are delivered
futures, options and foreign exchange products and services at a fraction of
the cost of traditional full-cost brokerage firms. Located in Chicago, IL,
Zaner is a privately owned brokerage firm offering services to institutions
and individual traders.
Detailed company information may be found at http://www.zaner.com or by
calling Matthew Zaner at 800.621.1414.
This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information,
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SOURCE Zaner Group, LLC
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CONTACT:
Matthew Zaner, Zaner Group, +1-800-621-1414
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