Bonds.com raises an additional $2 million

Source: Bonds.com

Bonds.com Group, Inc. (OTC.BB:BDCG.ob) announced today that Jefferies & Company, Inc. ("Jefferies"), the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE:JEF - News), has invested $2.0 million in Bonds.com Series D convertible preferred stock and warrants.

Bonds.com, through the BondsPRO electronic trading platform of its wholly-owned subsidiary Bonds.com, Inc. ("BCI"), a FINRA registered Broker Dealer and ATS, executes global corporate fixed income trades up to $2 million in size on behalf of professional traders.

BondsPRO is a web based platform that has over 70 thousand live prices on 10 thousand different issues from over 300 contributing counterparties. BondsPRO posts live, anonymous, negotiable orders on a single bond or list basis, and permits price negotiation. BCI is a neutral counterparty to all trades, acting as a riskless principal. All activity is transparent to clients. The company also offers Beacon, an anonymous electronic trading platform for all classes of MBS, RMBS, CMBS and ABS product, creating a convenient way for traders to sort, search and execute in the $10.4 trillion MBS/ABS market.

Michael Sanderson, Bonds.com CEO, is excited to welcome Jefferies as an investor. With this additional funding, the total raised in the Series D & Series D-1 round is $12.4 million, including investments from GFINet, Inc., Oak Investment Partners and UBS Americas, Inc.

George O'Krepkie, President of Bonds.com said: "Bonds.com is delivering fundamental change to fixed income markets through improved liquidity and execution, especially in smaller lot trades. The current round of capital raising will allow us to continue to improve markets and execute upon our unique opportunity."

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