Tradier Brokerage, Inc. Expands API Offering to Provide Complete Brokerage Platform to Digital Registered Investment Advisors

Charlotte, North Carolina – April 28, 2015 — Tradier Brokerage, Inc., the leading cloud-based financial services brokerage firm, today announced the expansion of its brokerage API, in partnership with Apex Clearing Corporation, to serve the growing digital advisory community and RIA's seeking robo-advisor capabilities. The expanded offering brings together Apex's leading technology-enabled clearing and execution platform with Tradier's functionally rich and secure brokerage API to provide digital advisors access to a total brokerage platform that bundles brokerage operations, clearing, trading and real-time streaming data from Tradier Brokerage.

"Digital Advisors are looking for technology solutions that empower them to create products that both the current and future generation of investors need. By leveraging the Tradier API that we built on the scalable Tradier Brokerage Operation in collaboration with Apex's leading clearing and execution technology, companies can focus on meeting the customer needs without having to worry about the brokerage limitations and massive technology builds," said Dan Raju, CEO and Co-Founder of Tradier, Inc. "In essence, advisors can access a one-stop destination for a complete experience from clearing, trading, execution and other services. What once took years to build is now available instantly as a scalable one-stop solution."

"Apex's collaboration with Tradier demonstrates how our unique clearing and execution technology can deliver creative solutions that help our clients run their businesses more efficiently and put more control in the hands of their customers," said Danny Rosenthal, CEO of Apex Clearing Corporation.

For information on Tradier Brokerage, Inc, visit brokerage.tradier.com or contact us at 980.272.3880 and for more information on Apex Clearing, please visit www.apexclearing.com.

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About Apex Clearing

Apex Clearing Corporation is an innovator in clearing, custody, execution, and technology. We specialize in supporting a variety of financial institutions including broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms, retail brokerages, and financial technology startups. Our clearing and technology services power the most cutting-edge financial firms in the industry, and our innovative approach to back office solutions enables businesses to grow and succeed. Apex prides itself on thinking differently and tirelessly working towards the further evolution of financial services and what they can do for our clients. Apex Clearing Corporation is registered with the SEC, a member of FINRA, and a participant in SIPC.

About Tradier Brokerage Inc.

Tradier Brokerage, Inc. — a member FINRA andSIPC is an independent subsidiary of Tradier, Inc. The Brokerage API enables entrepreneurs, businesses, developers and active traders to solve their trading and brokerage challenges using independent content and tool providers of their choice — at simple and competitive prices.

About Tradier, Inc.

Tradier, Inc. is a cloud-based financial services provider and brokerage API company that offers a groundbreaking platform to serve Platform Providers, Advisors, Developers and Individual Investors. Tradier delivers an innovative set of fully hosted API's, modules and "out of the box" tools that are leveraged by a growing list of providers seeking to create innovative trading and investing experiences.

Created by developers, Tradier is a technology linchpin that works with organizations that want to democratize access to data, trade execution, low cost trading and market connectivity through cloud access. In addition, Tradier's APIs empowers third-party developers to build applications such as algorithmic and robotic trading systems.

The Tradier solution features REST-based and Streaming APIs, and turnkey tools that deliver speed, choice and simplicity – all on a secure platform.