OTC Markets Group Announces News Distribution Agreement with Seeking Alpha

NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced a news distribution agreement with Seeking Alpha, the industry-leading stock research platform, to deliver Seeking Alpha's innovative stock research and analysis to investors in OTCQX®, OTCQB®, and OTC Pink® securities, accessible on OTC Markets Group's website, www.otcmarkets.com. Beginning in November, Seeking Alpha will link to financial reports from OTC Markets Group's OTC Disclosure & News Service on its website, providing Seeking Alpha subscribers with timely financial information on OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink securities, starting with OTCQX securities.

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"Seeking Alpha is the go-to source of independent stock research and analysis for the sophisticated investor," said R. Cromwell Coulson, President and CEO of OTC Markets Group.  "We are thrilled to now offer Seeking Alpha's valuable content to investors on our website which will help them make better informed decisions when they research, analyze or trade OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink securities. This agreement also provides additional exposure for Seeking Alpha's news editors, expert contributors, buy-side professionals and informed investors to the approximately 400,000 monthly unique visitors to our website."

"Last year, we upgraded our quote pages to give users timely and accurate information on the OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink marketplaces," said Adam Jackson, Director of Content Partnerships at Seeking Alpha. "As OTC Markets Group grows awareness about its broad coverage, we're excited to partner with them to bring Seeking Alpha's news and analysis to a wider audience."

About Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha is the market-leading platform for investment research, insight and real-time news on a broad universe of stocks, asset classes, ETFs and investment strategy. Seeking Alpha PRO is a research service designed to meet the needs of professional investors. 

Seeking Alpha was named one of the 100 Hottest Startups by Wired UK and the Most Informative Website by Kiplinger's Magazine.

Seeking Alpha delivers:

• Breadth: Seeking Alpha authors published ideas on more than 7,400 unique stocks last year, including more than 3,000 small- and mid-cap stocks. Among these, Seeking Alpha news and analysis extends to over 2,600 stocks traded across the OTC tiers, including numerous foreign companies who list as ADRs on OTC Markets Group.
• 3.8 million registered users, 275,000 commenters, more than 1 million comments, and 24-hr moderation, insight and informed and sophisticated discussion.
• Influence: Seeking Alpha articles frequently move stocks due to its large and influential readership. Seeking Alpha articles and comments have predictive value that widely outperforms traditional equity research and other social-media platforms.

For more information on Seeking Alpha, visit seekingalpha.com.

About OTC Markets Group Inc.
OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM) operates Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 U.S. and global securities. Through our OTC Link® ATS, we directly link a diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services for a wide spectrum of securities. We organize these securities into marketplaces to better inform investors of opportunities and risks – OTCQX®, The Best Marketplace; OTCQB®, The Venture Marketplace; and OTC Pink®, The Open Marketplace. Our data-driven platform enables investors to easily trade through the broker of their choice at the best possible price and empowers a broad range of companies to improve the quality and availability of information for their investors. To learn more about how we create better informed and more efficient financial marketplaces, visit www.otcmarkets.com.

OTC Link ATS is operated by OTC Link LLC, member FINRA/SIPC and SEC regulated ATS.

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