FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                             2000-140

SEC Announces Members of Advisory Committee on Market Information
                                
     Washington, DC, September 27, 2000 -- The Securities and
Exchange Commission announced today the members of the Advisory
Committee on Market Information, which it is in the process of
establishing.  As previously announced, the Advisory Committee,
to be chaired by Joel Seligman, Dean of the Washington University
School of Law in St. Louis, will assist the Commission in
evaluating issues relating to the public availability of market
information in the equities and options markets.

     The first meeting of the Advisory Committee will be held on
Tuesday, October 10, 2000 in the William O. Douglas room at the
Commission's main offices, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington,
DC, beginning at 1:00 p.m.  The meeting will be open to the
public.

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List of Members

Mr. Michael Atkin
Vice President
Software and Information Industry Association
Financial Information Services Division

Mr. Harold S. Bradley
Senior Vice President, Investment Management
American Century

Mr. Robert G. Britz
Group Executive Vice President
New York Stock Exchange

Mr. Andrew M. Brooks
Vice President, Head of Equity Trading
T. Rowe Price

Mr. Matthew S. DeSalvo
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Ms. Carrie E. Dwyer
General Counsel & Executive Vice President
Charles Schwab

Mr. Robert H. Forney
President and CEO
Chicago Stock Exchange

Mr. Thomas H. Glocer
CEO
Reuters America

Mr. Joel Greenberg
Managing Director
Susquehanna Partners

Mr. William R. Harts
Managing Director
Salomon Smith Barney

Mr. David A. Hunt
Partner
McKinsey & Company

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

Prof. Simon Johnson
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mr. Edward J. Joyce
President and Chief Operating Officer
Chicago Board Options Exchange

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

Prof. Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center

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

Mr. Mark A. Minister
President & CEO
Bridge Trading

Mr. Edward Nicoll
Chairman and CEO
Datek Online Holdings

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

Mr. Gerald D. Putnam
CEO
Archipelago

Mr. Eric D. Roiter
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Fidelity Management & Research Co.

Dean Joel Seligman (Chairman)
Washington University School of Law

Mr. Joseph B. Stefanelli
Executive Vice President, Derivative Securities
American Stock Exchange