ELECTRONIC TRADING BRIEFS

The International Securities Exchange, an all-electronic U.S. options market, increased its average daily trading volume by 30% from February to March. Daily volume at the ISE averaged 168,000 contracts in March, double its average daily volume in December 2000. The exchange also set a new one-day volume record on March 222, when it traded 258,392 contracts--breaking the old mark of 221,995 set on March 12.

Bridge Information Systems has launched BridgeInvestor, a customized suite of professional investor tools tailored to the individual investor. The Web-enabled application suite, which is accessible remotely, enables users to fully customize their workspace. Real-time quotes, charting and global financial news are among the application's customizable features.

Datek Online Brokerage Services experienced a decrease in its average daily online trades in the first quarter. Datek executed an average of 97,185 per day in Q1 2001, compares with 121,261 in Q1 2000 and 106,143 in the fourth quarter of last year. However, funded customer accounts increased by 69%, from 456,617 at the end of the Q1 2000 to 771,955 at the close of Q1 2001.

Lucidity Trading Systems plans to roll out the Lucidity Trading System, its global trading operations application, in London on April 4. The Lucidity Trading System is driven by a three tier, thin client/server architecture that incorporates Lucidity's advanced application server software. That software enables a bank to support all its trading rooms from one central set of servers.