FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                2000-55

SEC Releases List Of Limit Order Transparency Roundtable
Participants

Washington, DC, May 1, 2000 - The Securities and Exhange 
Commission today released the list of people who will 
participate in the Limit Order Transparency Roundtable, 
which will take place on Thursday, May 4, 2000 from 10:00 
a.m. to noon at the Commission's headquarters in 
Washington, DC.

     Division of Market Regulation Director Annette L. 
Nazareth said, "We have a superb group of participants 
rpresenting a broad cross section of the industry. We hope 
this initial dialogue will advance the goal of improving 
limit order transparency, which will become increasingly 
important as the markets move to decimal pricing."

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS


Mr. Matthew F. Andresen
President
Island ECN

Mr. Douglas Atkin
President & CEO
Instinet

Mr. Michael W. Clark
Managing Director
CS First Boston

Mr. Peter C. Cohan
Managing Director
Pershing

Mr. Robert Colby
Deputy Director, Division of Market  Regulation
SEC

Mr. Joseph Della Rosa
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs & Co.

Ms. Myra R. Drucker
Chief Investment Officer & Assistant Treasurer
Xerox Corporation

Mr. Kevin Foley
Manager of Electronic Trading
Bloomberg LP

Mr. William R. Harts
Managing Director
Salomon Smith Barney

Mr. Peter Jenkins
Managing Director
Scudder Kemper

Mr. George K. Jennison
Senior Managing Director
Retail Equity Group
First Union Securities

Mr. Thomas M. Joyce
Managing Director/Head of Equity Market Structures
Merrill Lynch

Mr. Richard Ketchum
President & Chief Operating Officer
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.

Ms. Catherine R. Kinney
Group Executive Vice President
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.

Ms. Kathy Levinson
President & Chief Operating Officer
E*Trade Securities, Inc.

Mr. Arthur Levitt
Chairman
SEC

Mr. Bernard L. Madoff
Chairman
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

Ms. Annette L. Nazareth
Director, Division of Market Regulation
SEC

Mr. Kenneth D. Pasternak
President & CEO
Knight/Trimark Group

Mr. Robert Pozen
President
Fidelity Management & Research Company

Mr. Gerald D. Putnam
Chief Executive Officer
Archipelago

Mr. George U. Sauter
Managing Director
The Vanguard Group

Mr. Devin Wenig
Executive Vice President of Marketing
Reuters America, Inc.

Mr. Stephen Williams
Senior Special Advisor
SEC