Contact Information: Company Contact: Maxine Martell CMO, EVP Marketing 561-981-1000 Email: mmartell@vfinance.com Investor Relations: Stan Wunderlich Consulting for Strategic Growth 1, Ltd. 800 Second Avenue, Fifth Floor New York, NY 10017 800-625-2236 info@cfsg1.com www.CFSG1.com Media Relations: Dan Stepanek EVP CFSG1 212-896-1202 dstepanek@cfsg1.com
vFinance, Inc. Included in Standard & Poor's Corporation Records and Market Access Program
| Source: vFinance, Inc.
BOCA RATON, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 15, 2007 -- vFinance, Inc. (OTCBB : VFIN ), a leading
financial services company, announced today that its corporate information
is now available via Standard & Poor's ("S&P") Market Access Program. The
Company's corporate description was published in the Daily News Section of
S&P's Standard Corporation Records on February 12, 2007. vFinance, Inc.
("VFIN") offers a full range of investment banking, trading and investment
opportunities to high-growth companies and investors seeking to outperform
market indices.
Standard Corporation Records is a recognized securities manual for the
"Blue Sky" Standard Manual Exemption for secondary trading in 38 states.
The inclusion of VFIN, Inc. in Standard Corporation Records, in connection
with the Company's compliance with other Blue Sky requirements, should
assist the brokerage and investment communities in making a market in
VFIN's stock. It is recommended that brokers check with their compliance
officers or legal counsel for applicable "Blue Sky" laws in their states
and regulations pertaining to them.
As part of S&P's Market Access Program, VFIN's corporate information will
be made available through S&P's Advisor Insight website
(www.advisorinsight.com). The website provides financial advisors with
share price, volume dividends, shares outstanding, company financial
position and earnings on thousands of companies.
In addition, VFIN information will be available via S&P's MarketScope®, a
real-time market news and intelligence service used by over 100,000
brokers, analysts, researchers and investors in the U.S. and Canada, and
via the electronic version of S&P's Stock Guide database, which is
distributed electronically to virtually all major quote vendors.
Leonard Sokolow, Chairman and CEO, vFinance, Inc., said, "We are very
pleased with Standard & Poor's decision to include us in its Corporation
Records and initiate coverage of us in its Market Access Program. These
actions provide additional transparency and sources of information about
our business to our stockholders and to the investment community at large."
About vFinance, Inc.
VFIN (www.vfinance.com) is a global financial services company which
specializes in high growth opportunities. VFIN provides investment banking
and advisory services to micro, small and mid-cap high growth companies.
Institutional and high-net-worth investors seeking to outperform market
indices are offered a full range of investment opportunities and financial
advisory services in over 40 offices in the U.S. and other parts of the
world. vFinance Investments, Inc. and EquityStation, Inc., both
subsidiaries of VFIN, are broker-dealers registered with the SEC, and
members of the NASD and SIPC.
Special services for hedge funds and other institutional clients include
direct market access (DMA), algorithmic trading and option execution
through multiple electronic trading platforms. The Direct2Desk trading
program connects institutional clients during trading hours directly with
the VFIN's equity traders for superior personalized customer service for
complex liquidation and accumulation strategies on all exchanges. The
Company has fixed income, emerging market and equity trading desks, and
makes markets in over 2500 micro and small-cap stocks.
The Company possesses an exceptional understanding of emerging private
companies and small-cap and micro-cap market stocks gained from its
specialized market making and investment banking activities, and from the
large number entrepreneurial ventures described on its website which is
ranked by Google and Yahoo, and web traffic measuring companies as a
leading destination for companies seeking capital, with more than one half
million unique visitors annually from over 150 countries.
This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute
guarantees of future performance. Investors are cautioned that statements
in this press release, which are not strictly historical statements,
including, without limitation, statements by management, statements
concerning internal operations, marketing, management's plans, objectives
and strategies, and management's assessment of market factors and
conditions, constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking
statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the
forward-looking statements, including, without limitations, the volatility
of domestic and international financial, bond and stock markets, intense
competition, extensive governmental regulation, litigation, substantial
fluctuations in the volume and price level of securities and other risks as
detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. vFinance, Inc. assumes no obligation to update any
forward-looking information in this press release.
Consulting For Strategic Growth 1, Ltd. ("CFSG1") provides vFinance, Inc.
("the Company") with consulting, business advisory, investor relations,
public relations and corporate development services. CFSG1 receives
restricted stock as compensation from the Company. CFSG1 may also choose to
purchase the company's common stock and thereafter liquidate those
securities at any time it deems appropriate to do so.