UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

           LITIGATION RELEASE NO  15880 / September 14, 1998

           SEC V. TEDDY WAYNE SOLOMON AND LISA STEVENS, individually and d/b/a
           PLATINUM INTERNATIONAL, AND QUANTUM GROUP a/k/a QUANTUM TRADING, LTD.
           3:97-CV-2712-H (USDC/ND TX, Dallas Division)

           On September 9, 1998, in a civil action brought by the Securities and
           Exchange Commission ("Commission") involving so-called "prime bank"
           securities, defendants Teddy Wayne Solomon ("Solomon"), Lisa Stevens
           ("Stevens") and Quantum Group ("Quantum") agreed to the entry of orders
           of permanent injunction against them.  The Commission also filed an
           amended complaint to seek recovery from four persons who refuse to
           return $400,000 of funds Solomon obtained from investors.

           The orders, which enjoin Solomon, Stevens and Quantum from future
           violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section
           10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rule 10b-5
           thereunder, arise from charges in the Commission's original complaint
           that they fraudulently offered and sold interests in fictitious "Prime
           Bank Instrument" trading programs through Platinum International
           Associates and Quantum.  The complaint alleged that Solomon and Stevens
           represented, among other things, that they were agents for foreign
           securities traders trading in large-denomination debt instruments
           issued by "one of the top 25 world banks," and that an investment in
           the trading programs would generate "safe, guaranteed" returns of as
           much as 4,300% annually. In fact, according to the complaint, Solomon's
           and Stevens' representations were false:  the trading programs did not
           exist, and Solomon and Stevens, in an apparent "ponzi scheme,"  used
           funds taken from investors to pay supposed profits to their business
           associates, to repay other investors, and for their own purposes.

           The court also ordered Solomon, Quantum and relief defendants Quantum
           Air Express, Inc., and Cherokee Worldwide Express, Inc., to pay
           disgorgement, jointly and severally, in the amount of  $2,929,510, plus
           prejudgment interest, with two provisos: (1)  that Solomon be credited
           for any sums actually collected by the Commission in this or any
           ancillary proceeding against any person holding funds that were paid or
           given to them by Solomon from the proceeds of the unlawful activities
           alleged in the complaint;  and (2) that any remaining amount be waived
           based on Solomon's demonstrated financial inability to pay. Stevens was
           also ordered to pay disgorgement in the amount of $19,210, plus
           prejudgment interest; however, payment of the full amount was waived
           based on her demonstrated financial inability to pay. Because of their
           poor financial condition, no civil money penalties were imposed on
           Solomon or Stevens.

           In pursuit of recovering additional investor funds, the Commission
           amended its original complaint to add four relief defendants to the
           action;  Fidelity International Bank ("FIB"), Dunamis Enterprises
           International ("Dunamis"), Gilbert Zeigler, and Graham Young.  The
           amended complaint charges that FIB, Dunamis, Zeigler and Young hold,
           and refuse to return, $400,000 of funds Solomon obtained from
           investors, which they know to have been obtained illegally by Solomon
           and subject to an asset freeze order entered by the court.