November 10, 2004, New York:

New York Board of Trade Extends Agreement with SDS Financial Technologies to License SDS MarketWatch eCommerce Platform to Power NYBOTLIVE...

SDS Financial Technologies (SDS), a leading provider of market data and electronic trading systems, announced today that New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®), an international marketplace for agricultural and financial futures and options, has extended its licensing and hosting contract for its NYBOTLIVE Platform.

SDS will continue to host and license the SDS MarketWatch eCommerce Platform to power NYBOTLIVE, which delivers news, charting, analytics and real time data from the NYBOT to over 5500 users worldwide. NYBOTLIVE has three plan options: delayed HTML, real-time HTML and real time JAVA pro in an eCommerce environment. Under this new agreement, NYBOTLIVE platform is expanded to deliver real time and delayed market data from CME, CBOT, COMEX, NYMEX and BM&F.

"We are extremely happy to extend our relationship with SDS" said Jack Sabo, VP of Market Data Services for NYBOT. "We have built up an effective partnership and SDS's expertise has always been on hand to meet our business requirements through the provision of solutions in step with technological advances. We aim to provide our customers with the highest quality service at the lowest cost possible, and SDS's leading suite of products continues to make this possible."

George Maragos, President of SDS comments: "This new agreement with NYBOT displays the strength of SDS' ability to partner with our largest clients to support their business goals. We're able to provide a suite of platforms that deliver market data, charting and analytics in an eCommerce environment. We're delighted with the on-going confidence of our relationship with NYBOT."

About SDS Financial Technologies:
Founded in 1988, SDS Financial Technologies, Inc. (www.sdsmarketwatch.com) is a New York based, leading provider of market data and electronic trading solutions. SDS's 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 New York Board of Trade:
The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is New York's original futures exchange, where the world trades food, fiber and financial products. For well over a century, the New York Board of Trade has provided reliability, integrity and security in a global marketplace for cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice and sugar, as well as currency and index futures and options. Information about the New York Board of Trade can be found at www.nybot.com and www.nybotlive.com

CONTACTS:
For SDS:
Cailin Kelly 212-349-3300 ex 17
cailink@sdsmarketwatch.com

For NYBOT:
Guy Taylor (212) 748-4103
(917) 767-1593
gtaylor@nybot.com