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ALPHA Global Exchange Overview

v  We are now offering our services to professional firms such as yours and enabling them to offer a deep cost savings service of Fortune 100 FX Exchange Rates to corporate level clients.

v  Our firms Executive Management offers more than 50 years combined Prime Bank, FX Trading and Derivatives experience

v  ALPHA has formed an alliance with one of the nation’s largest market makers and through the latest technology offering the most aggressive FX pricing available.

v  We provide Fortune 100 Rates to all corporate level clients due to our extensive liquidity.

v  ALPHA is a major bank alternative (FX) foreign exchange and International Payments Services Company.

ALPHA Foreign Exchange Solutions

v  ALPHA’s clearing firm has developed a bespoke foreign exchange dealing and execution platform for corporate and institutional clients

v  Clients and counterparties deal direct with the full support of a regulated broker dealer…avoid dealing with low and/or non-regulated counterparties

v  Comprehensive dealing and execution available electronically or via phone

v  Aggregated liquidity offers ultra competitive bid/offer rates

v  Request for quote or request for stream, or streaming liquidity and full depth of book available in completely customizable format

v  Deal direct API technology

v  Streamline your e-commerce trading through ALPHA technology or deal through Bloomberg

v  Fully integrated straight through processing and complete back office with a comprehensive reporting toolkit

v  Completely customizable technology to our robust and fully executable liquidity solution

ALPHA Securities Liquidity Portal

v Unique liquidity, aggregated through pipeline and streaming over 100 currencies and currency pairs, and forces best execution

v Anonymous liquidity ensures your

fill rate is actionable and yet; quiet

v Most liquidity providers have direct connections or cross connect to our pricing aggregator, reducing the pre and post trade roundtrip or trades and directives

v ALPHA offers only best

execution liquidity through its highly sophisticated pricing and rates engine

v See complete depth of book and

streaming liquidity direct on your desk top

v Comfort that you are trading

anonymously through a qualified and regulated counterparty that never identifies your flow

v Clients receive best execution and confidence that the price that they receive is the market rate

v Slippage not tolerated…never deal away from the market…get best execution at all times

v Deal on state of the art technology and have the liquidity support behind it v Robust physical settlement available in over 80 markets

Foreign Exchange Payment Solutions

v  Eliminates the need for single bank trade entry system for real time interbank FX rates

v  Complete and customizable User Interface

v  Customized liquidity solutions provide more competitive pricing… allow providers to bid on you flow… aggregate bank and market maker pricing = best execution for your trade flow

v  Request for quote or deal on streaming feed

v  Complete mid-back office trade capture and reporting, or customize your reporting of trade confirmations

Bloomberg Best Execution Toolkit

v  Trade on the most prolific trading system in the world

v  Deal in over 100 currency and currency pairs, including emerging currencies and NDFs

v  Streaming and request for quote rates available

v  Use the power of real time and historic data combined with Bloomberg analytics to trade in confidence

v  Receive instantaneous trade confirmations and detailed trade reports

v  Custom desktop saves on screen real estate and optimizes workflow

v  Seamless integration with your mid and back office technology

ALPHA Case Study 1 Client type: U.S. Clothing Manufacturer, Publically Traded, International operations, 5000 employees in

5 countries

ALPHA Client: No…warm lead

Import Client: Yes (85%)…Latin America and Southeast Asia

Export Client: Yes (15%)….Canada, UK and Australia

Background: Recent restructuring and implementation of management team. Looking to trim costs by 35%, increase sales by 20% and exit non-core business. Moderate bank syndicate and import/export trade lines (LCs)

Client Concern:

Treasury division has been asked to bear the brunt of the cuts. Staff cuts are to be around 250 in payroll, HR , IR, A/R. CFO reviewing bank fees structure , manage cash flow more efficiently and cut overseas transactions costs

ALPHA Solution Working with CFO for 3 months determined the following: • Cut bank wire fees by 25% • Reduce Foreign Exchange transaction costs by 50% • Reduce overall spread impact for cross border payments by 40 bps

ALPHA Impact: Projected year 1 savings $235,000+, subsequent years $250,000+

ALPHA Case Study II Client type: U.S. Mid market equipment refurbishing company, 250 employees, deals in 12 countries

ALPHA Client: Yes

Import Client: Yes (15%)…Sub Saharan African, Southeast Asia, China

Export Client: Yes (95%)…Sub Saharan African, Southeast Asia, China

Background: LLC refurbishes farming, construction and transportation equipment for export primarily to emerging markets. Works under the OPIC and EXIM programs. Works on bidding program, so margin is very tight

Client Concern:

Use unregulated money transactor…takes up to 7-10 days to move monies. Limited geographic dispersion of provider has meant extremely inefficient transacting. Firm has had spotty bank coverage and regional banks have been expensive and service in

emerging markets is non-existent…worried about 3rd part providers ALPHA Solution Sales team identified this as a niche for ALPHA, working with the CEO:

• Provided regulatory comfort and multiple market coverage including; China • Eliminate bank transaction fees related to foreign exchange • Transactions settled in a maximum of 3 days • Offered more competitive rates

ALPHA Impact: Projected year 1 savings $120,000+

ALPHA Case Study III Client type: Australian (and U.S. Subsidiary) privately held computer software company that caters to

mining and metals, 3500 employees and operates in over 35 markets ALPHA Client: Yes

Import Client: N/A

Export Client: N/A

Background: Client has developed unique vein exploration sonar system that they lease and sell

Client Concern:

Inconsistent cash flows due to dispersed operational impact…sales and consulting in over 35 markets with differing size and infrastructure needs

ALPHA Solution Worked with Treasurer to develop a more consistent cash flow model: • Using historical and projection data created a strategic cash flow hedging strategy to reduce cash flow volatility related to the income that the firm receives • Strategically worked with payroll vendor to create efficient funding tool for inbound and outbound payments traffic • Reduced transaction costs by 20% • Reduce Dodd Frank impact

ALPHA Impact: Projected year 1 savings $200,000-$250,000 per annum

The ALPHA Advantage is on Target!

v  Trade with a regulated counterparty with no platform or brokerage costs

v  Unique liquidity pool satisfies best execution needs

v  Anonymous trade execution

v  Trade and settle in over 85 markets

v  Deal on state of the art technology or with voice execution

v  Completely customizable user interface

v  Bloomberg desktop order execution option

v  Dynamic post trade integration

v  Trade 24 hours/6 days a week with full operational and trade support

v  Eliminate latency by connecting via FIX, Java, C++ API

v  Robust market color and commentary in most all markets

v  Physical settlements, 3rd party payments and trade settlement via prime bank give up

ALPHA /CCM Strategic Alliance

v  ALPHA Global Exchange (ALPHA) and CCM Securities LLC (CCM) has formed a strategic alliance to offer foreign exchange execution to its corporate clients. ALPHA As the International Business Development Arm and CCM as the Regulated Broker Dealer and Clearing facility.

v  This Strategic Alliance was premeditated to create an Unmatched FX Physical Delivery Hub that even Fortune 100 Firms will envy.

v  ALPHA combined with CCM, (a Registered and Regulated FINRA Broker Dealer), has successfully developed an all-inclusive foreign exchange (FX) dealing and execution platform that combines unbelievably aggressive pricing with a fully Customizable Technology Suite, local market settlement and superb customer service.

v  This strategic alliance now brings interbank execution to small, middle market and large cap corporations that need to make and receive payments globally. Using the same technology and execution available to Fortune 100 corporations, together our clients receive instant and uninterrupted execution in over 85 international markets.

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QUESTIONS? Contact: Tristam Anthony

+1 (917) 740-4424 tristam@alphaglobalexchange.com