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Announcement to Credit
Unions - "Second Group of Credit Unions Join the Qtrade Investor
Platform", April 2, 2001
Second Group of Credit Unions Join the Qtrade Investor
Platform
April 2, 2001,
Vancouver, B.C. - Qtrade Investor is pleased to announce a strategic partnership
with each of Fraser Valley Credit Union, Ubiquity Financial, Greater Toronto
Area Savings & Credit Union, Valley First Credit Union, Motor City Community
Credit Union, Winnipeg Police Credit Union, Kootenay Savings Credit Union, Sunshine
Coast Credit Union, Krek Slovenian (Toronto) Credit Union, PAGE Credit Union
and Buffalo Credit Union. Qtrade Investor will provide its state-of-the-art
online brokerage platform to these credit unions on a co-branded basis. The
credit unions and their members will receive a full range of brokerage services,
accessible either online or by phone through Qtrade Investor's fully staffed
call centre. Customers will receive and be able to utilize leading edge research,
online account applications, electronic funds transfers (EFT) and straight-to-market
order execution, all at competitive prices.
The
partnership will include joint marketing activities, advertising and hyperlinks
on each credit union's website homepage directly to a co-branded Qtrade Investor
online platform, utilizing each credit union's corporate logo and colours.
Fraser
Valley Credit Union and its newest division, Ubiquity Financial (an online virtual
bank for BC residents), are pleased to add Qtrade Investor to the list of exceptional
products and services available to their members. "Our mission is to provide
the highest quality financial services which meet the changing needs of our
members and our communities", says Keith Puiu, CEO of Fraser Valley Credit Union.
"Qtrade Investor offers our members a high quality, state-of-the-art online
brokerage service, accessible directly from our website."
Qtrade
Investor V.P. Business Development (Institutional), Joel Bernard, says, "We
are excited that more Canadian credit unions, after careful comparison, are
choosing to co-brand with our online platform. It is clear that although financial
institutions have a choice, they are choosing Qtrade Investor's high quality
online brokerage solution over the alternatives."
The
Qtrade Investor online platform is available to the members of your credit union.
As part of a strategic partnership, members who open accounts with Qtrade Investor
receive, among other things:
- A state-of-the-art
online securities trading platform, co-branded with your credit union's logo and
corporate colours;
- General trading
services and investment products;
- Straight-to-market order
execution;
- Account choices
(cash, margin, registered products);
- Competitive
pricing with a full range of customer services;
- Leading edge
research tools;
- Online help
and training;
- Ease of use/quality
of service; and
- Canadian Investor
Protection Fund ("CIPF") coverage ($1,000,000 per account).
About Qtrade Investor
Headquartered
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Qtrade Investor is a member of the Investment
Dealers Association of Canada and the CIPF. Qtrade Investor provides online
brokerage services across Canada (except for the province of Quebec). Qtrade
Investor delivers a full range of financial services while providing individual
attention to every account.
Qtrade Investor has assembled a team of highly
qualified professionals with extensive
operational experience in the online brokerage industry, gained at Canada's
largest online securities dealers.
For additional information regarding partnering with
Qtrade Investor, please contact: Joel Bernard, Vice President Business Development
(Institutional) at (604) 605-4122 or jbernard@qtrade.ca.
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