SwiftTrade was founded in 1997 by Peter Beck, Charles Kim, and Joseph Ianni. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Swift Trade is the first and the largest Direct Access Electronic Trading Centre in Canada with Offices across Canada, Europe, and Asia. The firms Proprietary Traders actively trade the NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX markets, executing tens of thousands of transactions representing upwards of 100 Million shares daily. Today, SwiftTrade is expanding rapidly, and will have 30 Offices open by the end of 2004.