REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 15, 2008 – Fortex, Inc., the leading provider of independent, real-time multi-asset trading platforms, today announced that daily currency trading on its Fortex FX trading platform exceeded $5 billion in March. In spite of market uncertainty and the woes associated with the subprime mortgage industry, the company’s approach to providing FX traders with direct access to global liquidity pools has delivered ten-fold growth in approximately 24 months.